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CCS Gathers Momentum Through Second
Heart Failure Workshop!

July 7 2006

The CCS National Heart Failure Workshop Initiative continued to gather momentum at the recent International Heart Failure Summit, June 16, 2006 in Toronto , Ontario . The CCS delivered the second in its series of regional heart failure workshops as part of its multi-year CCS Heart Failure Consensus Program.

The multi-disciplinary faculty, including guest faculty members from the Toronto region, provided participants with a highly interactive learning experience to better understand and apply the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Recommendations in day-to-day clinical practice. Learning objectives, learning strategies and evaluation reflected detailed pre- and post-workshop feedback gathered at the first CCS Heart Failure Workshop held at ACC Lake Louise, March 2006.

Highlights of the workshop include several case-based presentations, collaborative interaction using touch pad technology and a series of multiple choice ‘snapper’ questions.

CCS continues to gather feedback, comments and insights from workshop participants. Both pre- and post-feedback was gathered during the Toronto workshop.

With a 60% return rate and 91% of respondents rating the workshop as either very good or excellent, CCS continues to better understand the needs of end-users of its Consensus Recommendations. Further, the ongoing evaluation of these workshops enables CCS to fulfill its commitment to eliciting the help of the entire multi-disciplinary community in shaping the future of evidence-based cardiovascular care in Canada .

Complete results of the pre-workshop questionnaire can be found here.
Complete results of the post-workshop evaluations can be found here.

Future workshops are scheduled for:

• New Brunswick Heart Center Cardiovascular Symposium, September 2006
• Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, October 2006 (Plenary Session, Two Workshops)
• College of Family Physicians of Canada Family Medicine Forum, November 2006

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