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Dear All, Greetings from Al-Ain the oasis city. Many thanks for giving me useful tips, references and even power point slides for my talk to the hospital medical directors in the UAE. Special thanks to Professor Dan Mayer from New York, Ken Yew from USA Dr. Giuseppe Giocoli from Italy, Dr.Mead from UK, Mr Paul M Flynn from UK, Jill Mayer from USA, Dr Omar Abdulwadud from Australia and Dr.Diana Rodriguez from Peru. My talk went well (I think?!) and there was a good turn out. I presented two talks with a break in between. 1) Essentials of EBM for hospital directors 2) Internet as a tool to teach/practice EBM (How to bring evidence to the bedside) In the first talk I used a modified version of David Sacket’s power point presentation incorporating slides from different presentations and my own. In the second talk I showed live demonstration of both free and paid pre-processed EBM resources. Apart from my own examples (which were questions posted on our list in the last few weeks) I took some search questions from the audience and conducted searches (the Internet connection was very fast). Free Sources: Clinical query in Pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html Sumsearch http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/searchform45.htm National Guideline clearing house http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp Cochrane abstracts search http://www.update-software.com/cochrane/ Paid sources: Although I mentioned Stanford Skolar MD, Clinical evidence, uptodate and ACP journal club due to lack of time we ran searches in Stanford Skolar MD http://www.skolar.com/ Uptodate http://www.uptodate.com/ Both offer free trial for few days and uptodate has some useful material if you are presenting a EBM workshop. The major concerns of the directors were: 1)Lack of time for their staff to look up/search evidence 2)Lack of resources – most hospitals there is no Internet and some no computers for clinical care (although finance dept might have many!) 3)Need for training their staff in searching and applying what they found 4)Practicing EBM – will it become a legally binding requirement 5)Will it help or harm the practitioner in the court of law (when some one is sued) My colleague from the Ministry of health presented a slide show on the mission and vision of the ministry on the EBM initiative. We had a useful discussion and the plan is to invite/nominate 2 clinicians from each institution for a trainers training programme and the hope is that they will provide training in their own institutions. The Ministry will provide the resources and training. It is likely that one of the pre-processed EBM resources will be provided to all institutions possibly uptodate or Skolar MD which includes Cochrane and many on line text books and journals. I had a couple of invitations to come and present the seminars in the various institutions around the country. Once again I would like to thank the members of the list for your useful suggestions and support. In a separate mail I will put together all the helpful comments I received. Cheers & regards, Badri Dr.P.Badrinath M.D,M.Phil,(Epid)PhD(Cantab)DFPHM(UK),MPH(Distinc) Clinical Assistant Professor & Hon Consultant in Preventive Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, UAE University, PO Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Tel: 00 971 3 7039 652 Fax: 00 971 3 7672022. http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi "For an excellent review of the current medical literature, go to Journals Scan www.uaeu.ac.ae/jscan/" - BMJ 3rd June 2000, Netlines _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx