EXFRM 2727 Evidence Based Practice in Stroke Rehabilitation: Finding + Appraising Evidence Fast
This online course explores key topics in stroke rehabilitation and how to apply research to practice. Inside, you’ll learn how to find and critically evaluate the latest research in stroke rehabilitation and apply it in your professional work.
This course teaches essential skills for evidence-based practice (EBP) in clinical settings. You’ll learn how to create PICO questions, evaluate stroke best practice guidelines, analyze and synthesize research articles, and integrate evidence into your clinical work. These skills will help you find and critically assess relevant literature to improve patient care.
Course registration
- On-Demand beginning Sept 1, 2026. Registration will be open from Sept 1, 2026 to July 1, 2027. Once registered participants have 6 weeks access to complete the course.
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Course Hours
The course is approximately 12 content hours. Completion times amongst individual participants vary however 35 educational hours appear on the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine digital certificate issued after successful course completion. A digital badge issued by UofA CE is also available through MyCreds.
Course facilitator
Crystal MacLellan, PhD, MScPT, BSc
Crystal MacLellan is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Alberta. She is a Physical Therapist with experience in private practice, acute care and community settings. She has a special interest in working with children and adults with neurological conditions. She is a director of “PoolBrats”, which is a non-profit accessible and supervised aquatic walking program for individuals with brain cancer.
More Information
Step 1: Complete and submit the EXFRM 2727 faculty CE Unit application form
Step 2: Proceed to create a UofA CERegister account
Step 3: Register for the course on CERegister (*On-Demand regsistration on CERegister opens September 1, 2026).
Cost $285
Visit UofA Continuing Education for information on course withdrawal, refund, and transfer policy.
- Learn about key topics in stroke rehabilitation and discuss them with confidence.
- Understand what it means to use an evidence-based approach in practice.
- Identify and explain different types and levels of evidence used in evaluating research.
- Create clear clinical questions and quickly find relevant evidence.
- Find and assess evidence from stroke best practice guidelines.
- Read research studies, evaluate their quality, and understand how they can be applied in your work.
This course is delivered 100% asynchronously meaning there is no requirement to be online at a specific class date and time. Participants can complete the learning activities in a place and time of their choosing. Content is accessible twenty four (24) hours-a-day from any location with an internet connection.
There are no grades for this course. Instead, students receive a complete or incomplete score based on satisfactory completion of the course. To successfully complete the course students are required to work through all learning activities and achieve 60% on all the knowledge check quizzes at the end of each module. Students are given unlimited quiz attempts and can challenge these at any time throughout the course.
Upon successful completion of each module participants will be issued a faculty digital certificate noting the number of educational hours, a UofA Digital Badge via MyCreds, and an official UofA non-credit transcript.
Contact us at sdrefs@ualberta.ca.