YES. It might seem strange to purport that evidence-based medicine (EBM) is overrated. It has been described as a Copernican revolution in medicine, celebrated as one of the most important ideas of the 20th century, and considered the leading movement in modern clinical medicine. It is claimed to be the standard by which all medicine should be practised.1 Surely arguing against EBM is akin to s...

According to numerous commentators, clinical freedom, the art of medicine, and, by implication, a degree of patient welfare, are threatened by evidence based medicine (EBM). As EBM has developed over the last fifteen years, claims about better evidence for medical treatments, and improvements in healthcare delivery, have been matched by critiques of EBM's reductionism and uniformity, its proble...

Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...

Today, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is proposed as the “natural” way of thinking and practicing medicine. Although it has been questioned with several arguments (little humanist, elitist, disdainful of experience, functional to the health commerce, etc.), criticism has not moved its structure. EBM was born at the beginning of the nineties; it is undoubtedly the dominant thought in today’s medi...

There is general consensus in the academic community that evidence-based medicine (EBM) teaching is essential. Unfortunately, many postgraduate programs have significant weakness in their EBM programs. The Family Medicine Residency committee at the University of Alberta felt their EBM curriculum would benefit from critical review and revision. An EBM Curriculum Committee was created to evaluate...

At the present time, there are many calls, mainly from the orthodox medical profession and regulatory authorities, for medical interventions of all types to be practised and regulated on the basis of whether they work as determined by clinical trials. Medicine of this sort is called ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ (EBM). On the surface, EBM seems eminently reasonable. However, for Complementary and A...

Teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become common in family medicine residency programs. EBM teaching usually takes the form of journal clubs or encouraging residents to use EBM summaries of original articles. Both have significant limitations. Residents and other physicians recognize that understanding statistics is important for interpreting results. Unfortunately, they report low self...

Teaching Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) helps medical students to develop their decision making skills based on current best evidence, especially when it is taught in a clinical context. Few medical schools integrate Evidence Based Medicine into undergraduate curriculum, and those who do so, do it at the academic years only as a standalone (classroom) teaching but not at the clinical years. The ...