Pan African Medical Journal. 2013 16:89 doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.89.2782 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/16/89/full © George Thomas et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), w...

The authors describe a patient-centered method for teaching evidence-based medicine that is part of the inpatient morning report for pediatrics residents at the University of Illinois at Chicago. With library support, residents search for evidence to answer their own questions about patients, and present it at morning report

BACKGROUND The goal of medical research is to develop interventions that are in some sense superior, with respect to patient outcome, to interventions currently in use. Similarly, the goal of research in methodological computational statistics is to develop data analysis tools that are themselves superior to the existing tools. The methodology of the evaluation of medical interventions continue...