Evidence Based Practice in Stroke Rehabilitation: Finding + Appraising Evidence Fast
This online microcredential 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.
The online course is 13 content hours delivered over a 6-week timeframe (35 educational hours).
Now accepting registrations for the next course running September 22 - October 31, 2025.
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Course Goals
COURSE learning objectives
- 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.
COURSE HOURS
The course is approximately 1 credit equivalent (13 content hours). However, you should expect to spend somewhere between 18-35 total hours on the course (varies depending on the individual). We do equate the course on the high end of that and 35 educational hours appear on the digital certificates that are issued after course completion.
Course facilitator
Crystal MacLellan, PhD, MScPT, BSc
Crystal MacLellan is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the 海角社区. 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: Please apply at:
STEP 2: Confirm your registration by making the $250 course payment at:
A 100% refund of the $250 course fee is available to students who withdraw before the first day of the course. Withdrawal requests during the first 3 weeks of the course will be refunded 50% of the registration fee. After 3 weeks (mid-point of the course) no refund will be provided.
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.
Contact us at sdrefs@ualberta.ca.