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E.I.T. (Evelien) de Schepper, PhD

Assistant Professor

  • Department
  • General Practice
  • Focus area
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
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About E.I.T. (Evelien) de Schepper, PhD

Introduction

Evelien de Schepper is an assistant professor working in the Department of General Practice at Erasmus MC. She is a trained general practitioner (NP) and epidemiologist.

In 2011 she obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES).

In early 2015 she completed the GP training (AIOTHO) and in 2016 she received her PhD on the subject 'Diagnostics in low back pain' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Currently, she is working as the coordinator of the 'Rijnmond Gezond' database, a database including anonymized health records of >250.000 primary care patients in the Rijnmond region.

Her research is mainly focused on the primary health care in the Rijnmond region, the use of diagnostics in primary care, and musculoskeletal disorders.

Furthermore, she developed as a teacher more than 30 'Virtual Patients', an educational program that allows medical students to practice their clinical reasoning skills using virtual patient cases.

Publications

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Scholarships, grants, and awards

Received grants of Fonds Alledaagse Ziekten and Citrien Fonds


Rijnmond Gezond

For the website of Rijnmond Gezond, please follow this link.

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research

General Practice

Research groups/labs

General Practice

Research Projects

Diagnosis and treatment of spinal osteoarthritis in patients with back pain

The large majority of patients with back pain are labelled as having ‘non-specific’ back pain, but within this group there may be different subgroups of patients, e.g. those with symptomatic spinal osteoarthritis, who may respond differently to different treatments. To better understand this entity and provide better care for these patients, criteria for the diagnoses of structural and symptomatic spinal osteoarthritis for research and clinical purposes need to be established. Furthermore, the knowledge gap in spinal OA diagnosis among general practioners needs to be identified and possibly filled.