Clinical Educators Faculty Development Module (On-Demand)-Evaluating the Evidence

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Barbara Wood, a medical librarian, explains why evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be taught and modeled in clinical settings. She defines EBM as using the best current evidence, patient preferences, and clinical expertise to make care decisions. She argues that EBM improves patient outcomes, helps clinicians know what to do and what not to do, and keeps care aligned with changing knowledge. She outlines the five A’s of EBM—assess, ask, acquire, appraise, and apply—using a rotator cuff case example. Major barriers include lack of curriculum requirements, hierarchy, and limited time. To make EBM easier, she recommends involving medical librarians and using pre-appraised resources rather than searching and appraising from scratch. She reviews key tools: PubMed Clinical Queries, TRIP, Cochrane Library, DynaMed, and UpToDate, highlighting their strengths and limitations. The main message: model EBM daily, encourage debate and inquiry, and use trusted point-of-care evidence resources.

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Evaluating the Evidence Recording

Keywords

evidence-based medicine

clinical decision making

medical librarians

PubMed Clinical Queries

Cochrane Library

point-of-care resources