Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME): Concepts and Steps

A move from medical education based on personal beliefs towards Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME)seems to be essential, in order to improve medical education systems and students’ learning. In the recent decades, an institution with international missions has been established for BEME, which fosters the culture of evidence-based decision making in education through supporting systematic review studies. A Scientific minded medical teacher when encounters decision making in educational setting, will look for systematic reviews in response to the key question of decision. If does not find a systematic review, (s)he will search for other study types and appraises them, according to their methodology, quality ,rigor and level of objectives. Then (s)he plans for transferring and implementation of concluded evidences to make required changes according to her/his context of practice. Finally, (s)he will evaluate the new experience in order to revise and improve it. In this paper, the basic concepts and steps of BEME is explained with an applied language for medical teachers.