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Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
Contents EBM Building Questions Searching Literature Appraising Evidence EBM at Duke Internet Resources DUMCL Online
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EBM Tutorials

  • An Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
    This self-paced tutorial will take you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well-built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. This program was developed by the Medical Center Library at Duke University and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • JAMAevidence
    Resource from JAMA which provides access to fundamental tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses. Provides access to the Rational Clinical Examination series and the 2008 edition of the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature with additional teaching tools.

  • Interactive Users' Guide [Duke users click on Access UGI]
    Aimed at users who seek expanded content and interactivity to help them understand the Users' Guides, this interactive website includes the full text of both the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and the Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. The site includes interactive worksheets, case scenarios, interactive calculators, and customized packages for clinical practitioners and teachers of EBM. [Duke only]

  • Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto)
    The goal of this Website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources to use in practice and in teaching EBM to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education health care professionals.This site, which is produced by Mount Sinai Hospital, University Health Network (Toronto, Canada), also serves as support for the book entitled, Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Haynes.

  • EBM Curriculum at Duke
    The following curriculum was developed for the Evidence-based Medicine course directed by Sheri Keitz, M.D., of Duke University Medical Center. Faculty for the course include Drs. Sheri Keitz, David Edelman, Larry Greenblatt and Gene Oddone.

  • Evidence Based Medicine - Finding the Best Clinical Literature
    This guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature.

  • Evidence Cycle
    Brief overview of the evidence cycle.

  • Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
    Produced at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, this site has been designed especially for medical students, but it can be used by anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. Provides a brief overview of the EBM process, focusing on researching a medical question and critical appraisal of journal articles. [Available in PDA format]

  • SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course
    This Web-based tutorial, from the Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, introduces EBM principles and strategies used in searching and evaluating the literature.