In ye days of olde, medicine was laden with superstition, anecdotes, and inconsistency of practice. Knowledge was handed down by authority, and a strong emphasis was placed on adhering to traditional methods; as such, there was little room for improvement, advances were rare and slow to take hold, and there was often poor efficacy of treatment - sometimes even to the detriment of patients. Although some of these pre-conceptions yet persist, modern medicine has moved away from such archaic practices, and places emphasis on the scientific method.
This course will endeavour to impress upon you, as future medical practitioners, the importance of evaluating scientific and clinical evidence to guide and justify your decision-making. This is the crux of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), where you will learn to formulate a hypothesis based on your patient's presenting complaint, then interrogate the literature (which is a fancy way of saying the published data) in an objective way, and come to a conclusion that will dictate the best course of treatment for your patient. Some key principles that will help you do this include being able to perform a search of the literature that is unbiased (both for and against an existing preconception you or your patient might have!), evaluating the quality of publications, interpreting the results of articles (which includes statistical interpretation of data), and presenting the findings of your research to your patient in an easy-to-understand manner.
This description is not a comprehensive explanation of what the Quality of Medical Practice (QMP) course entails, but hopefully it gives you an idea of what to expect and why you should be interested in the subject. There will inadvertently be some statistical concepts and rigorous scientific methodology, but remember that, ultimately, the idea is to provide empirically justifiable information to you and your patients for a better clinical outcome. Good luck and have fun!