EBM Teaching Resources

Questions and Outcomes

• A brief slide presentation covering the following topics:

• Differentiating FOREGROUND and BACKGROUND questions

• Forming the best questions for specific study types

• Defining "patient-oriented evidence" and contrasting it to "disease-oriented evidence"

Critical Appraisal Series

• pre-appraised sources, guidelines and systematic reviews

Essentials of EBM and Information Mastery

• • 15 or so short slide-based talks on Information Mastery concepts - I use these at the end of journal clubs for 5-10 minute talks

Journal Club

• A three-tiered "journal club" curriculum based on American Family Physician reviews.

Information Mastery

• Keeping up and finding answers

• Hunting, foraging, sporting and retracing

EBM Objectives List

• • Is this everything?  ;-)

Goldacre at TED

• An interesting TED (tm) talk about the principles of EBM and Information Mastery

Evidence-based Diagnosis

Evidence-Based Diagnosis in Primary Care - a full-text Google Book

The "10 Commandments" of Evidence-Based Diagnosis - a EBHC listserve collaborative document

Answering Clinical Questions with Systematic Reviews

Summarizing Evidence

Exercise - Therapy Stats

Ideas on Study Design