What is Bench to Practice

Bench to Practice has been designed to inform and educate healthcare providers on data and recommendations, with the goal of encouraging evidence-based behavioural change, optimizing patient care and increasing quality measures.

On-Demand Webinars

Missed a live event? Now you can view our webinar series on-demand. Recognized healthcare experts share their perspectives on the most current data and recommendations and respond to the most pressing questions about COVID-19 vaccinations, treatments, and patient counselling.

Straight Talk on COVID-19 Series

The Straight Talk video series, hosted by internationally recognized experts, features candid, unfiltered discussion on current COVID-19 data, trends, research, and recommendations, responding to the most urgent questions and challenges facing healthcare providers.
Dr. David Strain

Clinical Lead for the COVID-19 Service in South-West England and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School

Dr. Peter Lin

Family Physician and Director of Primary Care Initiatives at the Canadian Heart Research Centre

Michael Boivin

Clinical pharmacist consultant, continuing education developer and president of CommPharm Consulting Inc.

Expert Brief Videos

What are the experts saying? The Expert Brief videos, featuring top healthcare experts, take a deep dive into topics surrounding COVID-19 and vaccinations, helping you learn more about the vaccine platforms, best practices in counselling and applying the latest in real world evidence to your practice.

Clinical Paper Highlights

A team of experts review key COVID-19 related clinical studies and synthesize into a 1-2 page summary in an easily digestible format. Accompanied with the summary is a short video from an expert clinician on how to use the latest findings in your everyday practice to improve patients’ treatment and outcome.

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Submission Agreement

Thank you for your interest in writing an article for the MDBriefCase Healthcare Leadership Academy website.

Audience and Appropriate Topics

The  Healthcare Leadership Academy welcomes submissions on all topics relevant to leaders in healthcare. Our topics include Leading in Healthcare, Leadership Lessons from COVID-19 and others. We prioritize stories that provide leadership advice to executives and managers in healthcare companies, offer actionable strategies for executing successful projects, and provide interesting angles on current healthcare topics. Submissions must be original work of the authors and unpublished.  When submitting, authors represent that they have included no material that is in violation of the rights of any other person or entity.

Parameters

Articles must be educational and non-promotional. If they mention the author’s company or any of the company’s products or services by name within the text, such mention should be very limited and used for reference only, not for promotion. (For example, an author might cite a survey conducted by his company but not describe his company’s product as a solution to a business problem.) Articles will be edited for clarity, style and brevity. The final headline is determined by the editor.

Length of Submissions

Guest articles for the MDBriefCase Healthcare Leadership Academy may run between 500 and 1000 words. 

Review

MDBriefCase reserves the right to accept or reject any submission  and the right to condition acceptance upon revision of material to conform to its criteria.   

No Compensation

There is no payment for contributed articles. However, MDBriefCase will give the author a byline. Authors are invited to link to the article on personal  websites, corporate websites and social media platforms.

Author Agreements

Each author understands and agrees that any submission accepted for posting is provided subject to MDBriefCase’s Author Agreement