Evidence-based medicine should be based on science To the Editor: Although the recent article in the SAMJ entitled ‘Evidence-based medicine – are we boiling the frog?’ by Muckart can evoke a true discussion, I feel that it could worsen the prejudice some people already have regarding evidence-based medicine (EBM). While I understand and concur with most of Muckart’s sentiments, I am concerned a...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools teach the principles of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) as a subject within their medical curriculum. Few studies have explored the barriers and enablers that students experience when studying medicine and attempting to integrate EBM in their clinical experience. The aim of this study was to identify undergraduate medical student perceptions of EBM, including their...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medical educators have used multiple interventions to teach evidence-based medicine (EBM) and information mastery. Most of these interventions are applied uniformly to a group of residents. We developed a curriculum to increase residents' EBM and information mastery skills that would meet individual learning needs. METHODS Two cohorts of second year residents (n=26) ...

More than twenty years after its conception, 'evidence-based medicine' (EBM) continues to invoke polarised debate. There are several areas of disagreement between EBM supporters and detractors as well as unanswered questions about the role of EBM in modern healthcare. Proponents suggest that the goal of EBM is to rescue medicine from many of its major ills, including wide variations in clinical...

Experimental Biology and Medicine Charlotte Atkinson, Cara L. Frankenfeld and Johanna W. Lampe to Human Health Gut Bacterial Metabolism of the Soy Isoflavone Daidzein: Exploring the Relevance 2005, 230:155-170. Experimental Biology and Medicine http://ebm.rsmjournals.com/content/230/3/155 Updated information and services can be found at: http://ebm.rsmjournals.com/content/230/3/155#BIBL This ar...

CONTEXT In response to the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) standards set forth in 2008, osteopathic medical schools are restructuring curricula to demonstrate they are teaching the seven core competencies and integrating evidence-based medicine (EBM) throughout all 4 years of training. OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the efforts of ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates individual clinical expertise with the best available external evidence in the care of individual patients. By enabling clinicians to directly appraise and apply current clinical research, EBM deals with the problems of deterioration in clinical performance, information overload, and lag in application of research findings to clinical practice. Thus, EBM...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is considered as one of the greatest inventions in modern medicine, advocating the use of the best available valid evidence, in line with clinical expertise and patients’ preference, to provide the best patient care. The philosophy probably has existed since the earliest age of medicine, but it was not until 1972 when Professor Archie Cochrane introduced the concep...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), which aims to get the best evidence from medical research, is a growing international movement in health care. Because of this new shift in medical practice, great attention should be paid to how to introduce EBM into Chinese Tuina, and this is a good opportunity for the development of Chinese Tuina. To adopt EBM will be beneficial to developing Chinese Tuina, imp...