Dear Jim
Cardiovascular risk and HRT serve as superb examples of relying on lower
quality studies:
2 large cohort (non-randomised controlled) studies showed reduction in risk
of CVS disease;
then, came two RCTs that showed INCREASE in CVS risks!!
I attach the references to these studies with this email
most students are likely to be familiar with HRT and CVS disease.
Arri
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Dr A Coomarasamy, MBChB, MRCOG
Specialist Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Honorary Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology
Birmingham Women's Hospital
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Birmingham B15 2TG
United Kingdom
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Subject: classic studies (for students)
Apologies from a newbie (and non-expert)
I am currently involved in teaching a small component of EBM in our
preclinical course at St Andrews. We are going through a major curriculum
redesign and I want to develop this aspect of the course with a view to
beginning it in during the first week of the new curriculum and developing
the EBM theme over the next 3 years (pre-clinical students at St Andrews
will complete a 3 year Honours BSc in Medicine then proceed to Manchester
to complete their clinical training).
What I would like to do is expose the students to examples of excellent
RCT's, cohort studies, case studies etc and also to 'not so excellent'
studies if that were possible.
Does anyone have a list of favourite papers (spanning the quality range)
that they would recommend as an introduction to the scientific literature
for students just beginning their medical careers.
many thanks
jim
Dr Jim Aiton
School of Medicine
Bute Medical Buildings
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9TS
UK
Tel: 01334 463543
Fax: 01334 463600
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