AZHIN: Internal Medicine Residents: EBM Review and Practice: Introduction

Learning Objectives

Asking Clinical Questions is intended to help you develop your evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills. The goal is to increase your comfort and ability to ask patient care related questions and efficiently find evidence to incorporate into patient management. Like many skills in medicine, EBM takes practice to master.

This module provides a brief review of the definition and process of evidence-based medicine. The primary focus is to guide your practice of turning clinical questions into database searches and selecting the best available evidence from the results to critically appraise and apply.

Click here to Start the EBM Module.

For more detailed background on EBM see:

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorial (UNC & Duke)
From UNC and Duke University, this tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine: EBM Resources
EBM tutorials and tools from Oxford University.

To review basic PubMed techniques useful in EBM searches see:

PubMed Basics for Residents
Created by University of North Caroline Health Sciences Library clinical librarians, this guide provides a way to quickly review the basic PubMed search skills needed to answer clinical questions.