EBM (evidence based medicine) is an application of knowledge management, appraising clinical studies critically and considering their applicability in clinical work. To discover current EBM issues, this paper presents an analysis of recent published articles. Issues identified include: Benefits of using EBM; Need for and possible lack of accuracy in available evidence; Difficulty of relating RC...

The six competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education include the lifelong learning skills of evidence-based medicine (EBM)/information mastery. We developed and tested an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) station that would measure these skills in family medicine residents. This EBM OSCE station is a 30-minute station within a regular OSCE exam. It use...

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) serves at least two major communities – those teaching and studying evidencebased medicine (EBM) itself (and producing evidence), and those consuming evidence to improve patient care. Two recent developments of interest to both audiences are worth noting. First, on 1 and 2 November, 2010, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Evidence Centre and the Centre for Evidence...

Background: Evidence based medicine (EBM) is very crucial in physician’s decisions. Several studies have been conducted on EBM in Iran, but none have referred to barriers regarding EBM. Objectives: In order to address this issue, we conducted a study on physicians to determine their attitudes towards the barriers to EBM. Patients and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional analytical study. O...

BACKGROUND Expertise has been a contentious concept in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). Especially in the early days of the movement, expertise was taken to be exactly what EBM was rebelling against-the authoritarian pronouncements about "best" interventions dutifully learned in medical schools, sometimes with dire consequences. Since then, some proponents of EBM have tried various ways of reinco...

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is heralded as a new paradigm of medicine. Is it? What is its link to epidemiology? Does an evidence-based (EB) approach apply also to other health sciences and to public health in particular? What has epidemiology already achieved in these domains, and what remains to be done? What should our priorities be in the coming years? The EB approach is essential in all h...

Since the 1990s, the concept of ‘evidence based medicine’ (EBM) has received growing interest. Its main rationale was the recognition that systematic synthesis of evidence from high quality clinical research should be guiding clinical practice. Important developments in EBM included the introduction of structured abstracts and of systematic reviews. Nowadays, EBM can be described as ‘healthcare...

background and purpose: today, according to busy doctors, one of the ways to keep their medical information up to date is the use of evidence-based medicine (ebm). the purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs of ebm in clinical faculty members working in shahid beheshti university hospitals in tehran and the prioritization of these needs . methods: the study was descriptive,...