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This site provides a collection of resources that support teaching and learning in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for faculty, librarians, students, and other health care professionals.
 

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last updated April 2008

Introduction | Contents | How to use this site

Introduction

This collection of evidence-based medicine (EBM) resources is intended for faculty, librarians, students and health care professionals interested in learning about EBM. Our goal is to make this site your preferred entry point when you wish to learn EBM, teach EBM, find current EBM research, or find key EBM resources. 

North Carolina Area Health Education Center (AHEC) librarians and academic librarians who teach formal EBM programs formed a team to create this virtual EBM Center of Excellence in 2000. The Center was based on the concept of "Centers of Excellence" outlined in the NC AHEC Library & Information Services Network 2001-2005 work plan.

This EBM Center of Excellence is one of many other information resources that can be linked to from NC AHEC's recently developed Digital Library (http://library.ncahec.net/).

The email addresses for librarians responsible for content are provided at the end of each section of this web site. Please feel free to contact the author(s) if you have questions or suggestions for content. 

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Contents

What's New

The What's New section highlights major news and developments in evidence-based medicine. This section also highlights changes to the web site.

Learning

The Learning EBM section provides a description of classes and online tutorials that teach you the process of EBM. Classes in North Carolina are listed first, followed by those in the US and abroad. Online tutorials are listed last.

Teaching EBM

The Teaching EBM section contains information to support the teaching of EBM. You will find examples of EBM curriculum, worksheets and information to use with question building, searching strategies and critical appraisal, and examples of tutorials.

Research

The Research section serves as a link to recent articles from Medline concerning the teaching and the practice of evidence-based medicine. Click on the Abstract link to read available abstracts.

Resources

The Resources section is designed to provide you with a starting point for your EBM collections. It contains an annotated list of selected print and electronic resources, including databases, journals and books. Links to publishers' web sites and reviews are also provided, if available. 

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How To Use This Web site

Highlights from the "What's New" section are posted at the top of this Welcome page. We suggest that you check the "What's New" section each time you visit this site for the latest news and developments in EBM .

Note: The What's New section includes highlights but is not comprehensive. For other additions to the site, check individual sections for items flagged with aNew item this quartericon. If resources are available on handheld computers, they are flagged with Available for PDAs.

The major sections of this site are listed on the left side of every page. You can go directly to any section by clicking on its name. To go directly to a topic within a given section, click on one of the links at the top of each page just below the section title.

If you click on a link to an external web site, a second window will open. To return to our web site, close the second window (choose File>Close).

If you find this site helpful, we encourage you to add it to your bookmarks, and to provide links to it from your Web pages. 

Please send your comments by email to ahec_ebm@unc.edu, or use our new Feedback form. A link to the form can be found in the column on the left of each page.

URL for this page: http://library.ncahec.net/ebm/index.htm

Last modified April 30, 2008

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