The emphasis on evidence based medicine (EBM) has placed increased focus on finding timely answers to clinical questions in presence of patients. Using a combination of natural language processing for the generation of clinical excerpts and information theoretic distance based clustering, we evaluated multiple approaches for the efficient presentation of context-sensitive EBM excerpts.

introduction: journal clubs play an important role in teaching evidence based medicine (ebm). evidence based journal clubs focus on real problems of the group, and set a minimum level of evidence for articles to be presented, and in the end a clinical bottom line is set to be used in the daily clinical practice. in this article, we have explained our experience in running evidence based journal...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Evidence-based medicine (EBM) journal clubs are used by health care practitioners to critique and remain updated on relevant health literature. Vote cards, in three different colours (green/yellow/red), allow participants to express their opinions (agree/doubt/reject) on the quality and possibility of clinical application regarding the article being reviewed. Our ...

Because the individual patient is the center of our philosophy, osteopathic medicine has been called a paradox for attempting to maintain a distinct but equal profession beside its allopathic counterpart. Moreover, its distinctiveness has been challenged in light of this paradox.10 Although there are some dissenters, our profession is in danger of fully embracing EBM because of its normative pu...

evidence-based medicine (ebm) is becoming an integral component of graduate medical education competency and a requirement for grad medical education practice-based learning core competency. this study tries to compare the efficacy of conferences utilizing small-group discussions with the traditional conference method in enhancing ebm competency. the participants in this randomized controlled t...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), by integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available clinical evidence from systematic research, has in recent years been established as the standard of modern medical practice for greater treatment efficacy and safety. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), on the other hand, evolved as a system of medical practice from ancient China more than 2000 y...

Background and aims: The history of medicine has experienced multiple emersions and wanes of several paradigms. Attenuation of a paradigm and finally its wane will occur when that paradigm is unresponsive to new scientific questions and needs. All studies run about Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) has acknowledged its ability to response to new clinical needs, but are in agreement in this poi...

The assessment of the optimal treatment option based on best current knowledge is called evidence-based medicine (EBM). Considering the cost explosion in public health systems, EBM should also incorporate proper utilization of the restricted economical resources and should enforce quality assurance in medicine. It is imperative that surgeons realize that randomized controlled trials are applica...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The long-term effect of teaching critical appraisal (CA) and evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills is unknown. This study explores long-term behaviors and learner satisfaction after a 3-year longitudinal CA/EBM curriculum. METHODS Telephone interviews were conducted with 1996-1998 graduates of an academic family medicine residency program with an established CA/EBM cu...