What is EBM?
Opened: Sunday, 26 July 2020, 12:00 AM
This module discusses the definition of Evidence Based Medicine or EBM, and the steps in practising EBM.
Skill 1: Acquiring the Evidence
In this day and age when information is freely available and rapidly produced, it is important that we are able to find and retrieve the right information to help us solve the clinical dilemmas that we encounter in clinical practice when we need it. To do this, we need to develop three specific skills:
1. asking a focused clinical question;
2. searching the medical literature;
3. retrieving the medical literature.