Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration.
. The Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration (BEMB) is a group of individuals or institutions who are committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education through the dissemination of information which allows medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available. BEMB also produces appropriate systematic reviews of medical education which reflect the best evidence available and meet the needs of the user. |
Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine.
Centres for Health Evidence. Covers the requirements for the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM), EBM in a medical residency, effective teaching of EBM, methods for scaling the barriers to the dissemination of EBM, barriers to teaching and practicing EBM, and the relationship between teaching and learning EBM and patient outcomes. Based on the Users' Guides to Evidence-based Medicine and reproduced with permission from JAMA. (1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5) Copyright 1992, American Medical Association. |
Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum: Evidence-Based Care.
University of North Carolina - School of Medicine. Covers the rationale for teaching evidence-based care, developing learning goals and objectives for students, and developing strategies to help students learn about evidence-based care. A module in the Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum (EPIC), a faculty development program in clinical teaching for community practitioners sponsored by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Register as 'guest' and select module #6. |
Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Teaching Critical Appraisal.
ICRF/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine. Presents a systematic review of control-group studies of critical appraisal training. Although the evidence is weak due to poorly designed, executed and reported studies, critical appraisal teaching does appear to have positive effects on participants attitudes, knowledge and skills. However, its impacts on professional decision making, patient health, or patient satisfaction remains unclear. |