Developing Curricula | Teaching Tools | Tutorials
Developing Curricula
Evidence Based Medicine Curriculum for UW Medicine Residentshttp://courses.washington.edu/ebmed/EBM/curriculum/curriculum.shtml 8 week course outline from the University of Washington.
PhillyEBM
http://www.phillyebm.com/drupal/
PhillyEBM is sponsored by the Division of General Pediatrics and the Pediatric Generalist Research Group of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This site features a number of resources for pediatricians, to aid them in the practice of EBM, or "Evidence-Based Medicine". One major goal of the site is to teach pediatric residents how to best use the medical literature available at their fingertips, through resources like PubMed and other online medical sites.
Clinical
Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/GlossClinEpiEBM.htm
This is an interesting site designed for veterinarians from Washington
State University. It offers a nice curriculum of concepts and terms that
should be included in an EBM course. Even though some of the examples
are for animals, the principles do apply to people.
Evidence
Based Medicine - Finding the Best Clinical Literature
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebm.shtml
This guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students
become effective and efficient users of the medical literature. From the
University of Illinois Library of the Health Sciences at Peoria.
EBM
Curriculum
http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/MED/EMAC/curriculum/curriculum.html
Emory University, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine
EMAC is an ongoing effort to bring medical informatics and evidence-based
medicine tools into the medical workplace.
EBM Curriculum at Duke University Medical Center
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/ebm/overview/ebm_keitz.html
The following curriculum was developed for the Evidence-based Medicine
PRIME course. It covers 8 weeks and
is for General Medicine interns.
A Novel
EBM Curriculum for Use in a Family Medicine Clerkship
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/STFM/
University of Massacheutsetts Medical School
A powerpoint slide presentation describing an EBM curriculum for use with
3rd year medical students.
Teaching Tools
EBM Librarian
http://www.ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com The purpose of this wiki is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). This site offers a place to share teaching materials and class handouts, discuss issues and ask advice from colleagues, share useful information about teaching ebm.
Society of General Internal Medicine - EBM site
http://www.sgim.org/ebm.cfm
This site was developed by the SGIM EBM Task Force. It contains useful
teaching tips, evaluation tools, practice cases and much more.
Tips for learning and teaching
(series from CMAJ)
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/ebm?tab=overview&extra=teaching
There are 2 versions of each article, one for learners of the EBM principle in question and one for their teachers. The learners' version will appear in print in CMAJ, and the related teachers' version will be published online. The online teachers' version will also give readers access to a variety of extra features, including interactive teaching exercises and other tools, such as PowerPoint slides.
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/ebm/
This site is designed to assist faculty, house staff, and students in
understanding and teaching the principles involved in practicing EBM. The
site includes 6 units: EBM, Building Questions, Searching Literature,
Appraising evidence, EBM at Duke, and Internet Resources.
Critical Appraisal
Users'
Guides to Evidence-based Medicine
http://www.cche.net/text/usersguides/main.asp
from the Centre for Health Evidence (Canada)
This series of articles based on the original publications in JAMA,
help translate the results of medical research into clinical practice.
They are written from the perspective of the busy clinician who wants
to provide effective medical care but is sharply restricted in time
for reading.
Critical
Appraisal Worksheets
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/ebm?tab=appraising&extra=worksheets
Duke University, Medical Center Library
These worksheets are based on the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature
series published in JAMA. The worksheets include questions and a link
to the full text article (Duke IP address required) explaining the appraisal
process.
Critical
appraisal worksheets
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/teach/materials/caworksheets.htm
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
This site provides access to interactive critical appraisal worksheets
and calculators.
BestBets (Emergency
Medicine)
http://www.bestbets.org
BETs are created by the Emergency Department at Manchester Royal Infirmary,
UK. Their purpose is to provide brief reviews of the best evidence about
specific topics, to meet the specific needs of Emergency Medicine. CATs
are used as a starting point for developing these reviews. More indepth
information about BETs are available from the homepage.
The
PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club
http://pedsccm.org/EBJournal_Club_intro.php
PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club
UNC
Critically Appraised Topics
www.med.unc.edu/medicine/edursrc/welcome
Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, School of Medicine
Dr. Chris Cates's EBM Web Site http://www.nntonline.net/ebm/topics/statistics.asp Good examples of ways to teaching statistical concepts.
Journal Club
http://www.fppda.com/timjc.html
Journal Club is a program to help quickly look up terms and calculate
Relative Risk, PPV, NPV, Sensitivity, Specificity, etc. You simply enter
the data once and then it runs all the calcs and displays the results. When
you are preparing to present at journal club you can input the data for
several studies and then bring them up one at a time from the saved list on
the main page. The latest version of Journal Club includes a Windows
desktop. Now you can run the same calculations from your lap top and
present them during your journal club.
Diagnostic Test Calculator
http://araw.mede.uic.edu/cgi-bin/testcalc.pl
Online calculator from University of Illinois at Chicago. Allows you to calculate sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios online. Include a nomogram which is automatically filled in with the calculations.
UBC
Bayesian Calculator
http://www.healthcare.ubc.ca/calc/bayes.html
UBC
Clinical Significance Calculator
http://www.healthcare.ubc.ca/calc/clinsig.html
From the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University
of British Columbia,
these sites provide web-based calculators for sensitivity, specificity,
likelihood ratios, and
predictive values of diagnostic tests and absolute risk reduction, relative
risk reduction, odds ratio and numbers needed to treat for therapy studies.
EBM
Calculator 
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/palm/ebmcalc/
From Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, the EBM Calculator
is designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies,
Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials
(RCT). This is a palm version of the Stats Calculator
MedCalc 3000
http://calc.med.edu/
MedCalc 3000 comprises a variety of common equations, clinical criteria
scores and decision trees used in medicine. Includes a Quick Converter
module to convert values from one unit to another, as well as a general
Math Calculator. (PLEASE NOTE: To use MedCalc 3000 you must have a JavaScript
enabled, frames capable browser.)
Online
Clinical Calculator
www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc.html
Division of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin
This site provides access to Bayesian Analysis tools, as well as other
clinical formulas.
Evidence Based Medicine Curriculum
http://www.hematology.org/education/ebm.cfm The American Society of Hematology is pleased to present this online curriculum in evidence-based medicine introducing users to the basic principles and applications of literature-based analysis to medical practice. This curriculum began as a project of the ASH Committee on Optimization of Hematologic Care, and is now supported by the Committee on Training Programs. (Free; registration required)
Searching the Literature for Evidence-Based Medicine http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/EBM_litsearch/index.html In this interactive narrated tutorial, you will learn how to effectively search for evidence-based medicine literature that will help in your clinical decision making. The tutorial is deisgned for medical students and shoudl take one hour to complete.
Interactive Users' Guide
http://pubs.ama-assn.org/misc/usersguides.dtl
Aimed at users who seek expanded content and interactivity to help them
understand the Users' Guides, this interactive website includes the full
text of both the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and the Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical
Practice. The site includes interactive worksheets, case scenarios,
interactive calculators, and customized packages for clinical practitioners
and teachers of EBM. The site is available to individual and institutional
subscribers to JAMA.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBM/index.htm
Medical Center Library, Duke University and Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This self-paced tutorial will take you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence.
An Introduction to Information Mastery
http://www.poems.msu.edu/infomastery/
This is a Web-based course that introduces the basic concepts of
Information Mastery, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBP), and critical appraisal
of the medical literature. The course was developed by Dr. Mark Ebell at
Michigan State University.
A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
http://denison.uchsc.edu/sg/index.html
Produced at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, this site has been designed especially for medical students, but it can be used by anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. Provides a brief overview of the EBM process, focusing on researching a medical question and critical appraisal of journal articles. [Available in PDA format]
Evidence
Based Medicine (UMass)
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/index.cfm
Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
has developed a simple yet in depth online tutorial for Evidence Based
Medicine. This resource looks and
feels more like an online course than a tutorial. It is easy to navigate
and
includes a number of internal links allowing users to decide their own
pace.
Online
Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM)
Annals of Emergency Medicine and its publisher, Mosby, present an online
series of articles regarding the basics and application of EBM to emergency
medical patient care.
Centre for Evidence-Based
Medicine
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/
Mount Sinai Hospital of the University Health Network (Toronto, Canada)
The goal of this site is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate
resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate,
postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals
from a variety of clinical disciplines.
Evidence Based Medicine
http://library.downstate.edu/EBM2/contents.htm
This tutorial from Suny Downstate Medical Center introduces EBM principles and strategies used in searching and evaluating the literature.
This section compiled by:
Connie Schardt, Medical Center
Library, Duke University Medical Center.
Last modified on
August 1, 2008
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