Badri
Thanks for posting the list of resources - they look
VERY good and are not ones I was familiar with...
Bill C
--- badri badrinath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Professor Attia,
>
> Warm greetings from the East of England.
>
> I applaud your efforts to integrate EBM into UG
> medical education. How and
> what to integrate will depend on whether you follow
> traditional style
> teaching or case based learning. When we started
> teaching EBM to
> undergraduate students we started off with a few
> introductory seminars on
> the need for EBM.
>
> Dan Mayer's "Essential evidence-based medicine" text
> would be a good
> companion for the concepts in the first few years.
> As the students move
> through their training using an EBM case log where
> students pick up
> questions to answer from their ward rounds would
> help to engrain the EBM
> approach. Hands on critical appraisal skills might
> be appropriate in the
> early years.
>
> We found interactive computer based learning
> especially for finding evidence
> very powerful and the students took a keen interest
> in this. The other
> approach we found useful was putting together a Meta
> site of various EBM web
> sites including secondary sources of evidence.
>
> Andrew Booth's netting the evidence is a very good
> starting point available
> @
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/
>
> In the later stages the text "Evidence-Based
> Medicine: How to practice and
> teach EBM" would be invaluable. More details @
> http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/doc/thirdEdition/toc.htm
>
> You might find these articles of some relevance
> while putting the course
> together
> Early Introduction of an Evidence-based Medicine
> Course to Preclinical
> Medical Students
> Available @
>
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1494995
>
> Teaching EBM to medical students
> http://www.saem.org/download/Hand-6.pdf
>
> Impact of an evidence-based medicine curriculum on
> medical students'
> attitudes and skills
>
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=521510
>
> Another interesting piece is "Obstacles to EBM in
> developing countries"
> available @
> http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/doc/devl.ppt
>
> I am sure colleagues with more experience and
> knowledge will be sharing
> their thoughts on your posting. Wish you the very
> best in your efforts.
>
> Warm regards & very best wishes,
>
> Badri
>
>
> Dr P Badrinath MD BS M.Phil MPH FFPH PhD (Cantab)
> Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Affiliated
> Clinical Lecturer
> Suffolk PCT & University of Cambridge
> Thingoe House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
> http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi
>
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