BACKGROUND Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a core unit delivered across many medical schools. Few studies have investigated the most effective method of teaching a course in EBM to medical students. The objective of this study was to identify whether a blended-learning approach to teaching EBM is more effective a didactic-based approach at increasing medical student competency in EBM. METHOD...

Uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem that has attracted increasing attention in health care, given the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and patient-centered care. However, our understanding of this problem is limited, in part because of the absence of a unified, coherent concept of uncertainty. There are multiple meanings and varieties of uncertai...

If psychoanalytic treatment is to survive in the era of evidence-based medicine and managed care systems, empirical evidence is needed to demonstrate its unique nature and effectiveness. To address this need, comprehensive analyses were conducted of data from the Menninger Psychotherapy Research Project (Wallerstein 1986). These analyses addressed three questions: (1) What are the differences i...

Background: Nurses constitute the largest group of health care providers and play a fundamental role in continuing of care and health promotion and preservation at different levels of the health provider system. After new change in the health care system, society expects more from nurses. Researchers believe that in order to elevate the quality of nursing care, acting based on the evidence and ...

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  Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a new approach to patient management which incorporates best evidence with the clinical expertise of the health care providers. Although this approach has had a rapid growth in many clinical disciplines, its applications in radiology and nuclear medicine has not been addressed sufficiently. In this review EBM is briefly explained...

The College of Medicine at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) was established in January 2004. The four-year curriculum was based on the Problem Based Learning (PBL) format and involved the web-based graduate medical program adopted from the University of Sydney, Australia. At KSAU-HS, one additional semester was added to the beginning of this curriculum to prepare...

background previous research supports the claim that managers are vital players in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (cpgs), yet little is known about interventions aiming to develop managers’ leadership in facilitating implementation. in this pilot study, process evaluation was employed to study the feasibility and usefulness of a leadership intervention by exploring the inter...

the discussion between general practitioners (gps) and healthcare delivery organizations necessitates a common language. the presentation of the 4 types of gp’s activities, opens dialogue but can lead to possible misunderstandings between the micro- and macro-level of the healthcare system. this commentary takes 4 examples: costs reduction by p4, priority of beneficence or nonmaleficence, role ...

the major difference between iranian traditional medicine and allopathic medicine is in the application  of  evidence  and  documents.  in  this  study,  criteria  for  evidence-based  practice  in  iranian traditional medicine and its rules of practice were studied. the experts’ views were investigated through in- depth, semi-structured interviews and the results were categorized into four mai...