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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