Evidence-Based Medicine for Hospitalists – Practical Strategies at the Point of Care

Join us for an engaging, interactive full-day workshop designed to strengthen your ability to integrate evidence into clinical care. Whether you’re a seasoned clinician or early in your career, this course will help you ask better questions, find trustworthy evidence, and apply it meaningfully to patient care.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to turn real-world clinical questions into searchable, answerable formats using the PICOTT framework
  • Strategies to quickly and effectively search the literature
  • How to interpret and apply findings from key study types: randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, diagnostic accuracy studies, and survival analyses
  • How to evaluate guidelines, meta-analyses, and conflicting recommendations
  • How clinical decision support tools and AI are shaping the future of evidence-based practice

What Makes This Workshop Unique

  • Interactive Activities: Hands-on simulations, role plays, and live demonstrations using real clinical questions and studies
  • Clinical Relevance: Focus on how to apply evidence directly to your own patient population
  • Practical Tools: Tips for efficient reading, appraising studies, and making evidence-based decisions in real time
  • Tech-Forward Thinking: Explore AI search engines and how CDS tools integrate into your EHR

Topics & Activities

  • Participate in a simulated randomized controlled trial and cohort study
  • Use real data to interpret sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values in the context of your patients
  • Use clinical decision rules to facilitate data driven clinical care
  • Assess meta-analysis data behind clinical guidelines to apply to your practice
  • Use and compare different AI-powered medical search engines

Who Should Attend

Physicians, advanced practice providers, residents, fellows, and educators interested in enhancing their EBP skills in a fun, applied, and clinically relevant way.

Presented by

Megan Brooks, MD, MPH, SFHM, FAC
Dr. Brooks is an academic hospitalist and Vice Chair for Quality and Safety in the Department of Hospital Medicine at Ochsner Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Duke University. Prior to joining Ochsner in 2021, Dr. Brooks practiced hospital medicine within the Duke University Health System, where she was actively involved in teaching clinical skills, interprofessional education, and evidence-based practice. At Ochsner, she serves as core faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and leads initiatives to advance quality and patient safety across the department. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of medical education, quality of care, and evidence-based practice, with a focus on integrating these domains to improve patient outcomes and train the next generation of physicians.

Patricia Cheung, MD, PhD
Dr Cheung is an academic hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta. She earned her MD/PhD from Emory University with her graduate degree completed at the Rollins School of Public Health. She subsequently completed her internal medicine residency at Emory University and now serves as a unit medical director at Grady Memorial Hospital. Outside of her clinical duties, she teaches evidence-based practice to medical students and residents. Other passions include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), and she created and currently leads the POCUS curriculum for the Senior Medicine Internal Medicine Clerkship and mentors residents in the POCUS distinction program.

Bhavin Adhyaru, MD
Dr. Adhyaru joined Emory in 2011 and is currently an assistant professor of medicine based at Grady Memorial Hospital. He completed his residency at Emory University with distinction in Quality Improvement & Patient Safety. He serves as the assistant director for the Evidenced-Based Medicine (EBM) curriculum for the residents as well as the Quality Improvement curriculum. He started teaching EBM as part of faculty development for the division of general medicine and developed an EBM curriculum for the third-year clerkship for medical students. His research interests include heart failure management and he helps direct the heart failure clinic at Grady and helps direct the diabetes feedback program at Grady. He is working with other faculty on a textbook for applications and principles of EBM.

Mikhail Akbashev, MD
Dr. Akbashev MD FACP trained at Emory and now teaches at Grady Memorial Hospital , where he has taught evidence-based medicine to the Emory residents since 2015. In addition to evidence-based medicine, he teaches procedures, point of care ultrasound, anticoagulation, and quality improvement.

Halle Field, MD
Dr. Field earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and then went on to complete her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency at Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, OH.  She also completed a one your research fellowship in Dermatology at the University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences.  She currently serves as core faculty for the IM residency program at Ochsner and is a Unit-based medical director working closely on multiple quality projects throughout the hospital.

Haroon Jakher, MD, MMCI
Dr. Jakher is an academic hospitalist at Ochsner Health, where he also serves as the Hospital Medicine Informatics Lead for the service line. He earned his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford University. Since joining Ochsner in 2021, Dr. Jakher has focused on advancing clinical care through education and the strategic integration of clinical informatics. In 2025, he completed a master’s in clinical informatics from the University of Washington, further strengthening his expertise at the intersection of medicine and technology.

Kyle James, MD
Dr James, is a practicing hospitalist at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. He obtained his medical degree at the University of South Florida and completed an internal medicine residency at Emory University. His clinical interests include inpatient management of patients with end stage renal disease, patient flow in the hospital, and evidence-based medicine.