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December 24, 2022
This is an ideal guide for residency program directors and core faculty, either within internal medicine or more broadly in family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, OB-gyn, as well as medical school faculty for use with students. ...
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December 24, 2022
This is an ideal guide for residency program directors and core faculty, either within internal medicine or more broadly in family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, OB-gyn, as well as medical school faculty for use with students. ...
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January 1, 2022
Diagnostic testing is a core domain in any evidence-based medicine curriculum and is also a place where the concepts typically tested in early health professions education tend to differ from the concepts needed to apply data clinically. We believe it is c ...
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January 1, 2022
Teaching about therapy is the cornerstone of most curricula in evidence-based medicine. In order to address this core topic, we walk through background information and teaching techniques addressing (1) framing a therapy question, (2) assessing the risk of ...
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January 1, 2022
Harm and causation is a critical topic in evidence-based medicine. Harm questions come up frequently in clinical care as much harm data is shared in the lay press. “Does this food/chemical/environmental exposure cause that disease?” is a very common concer ...
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January 1, 2022
Screening is a form of an intervention. Studies of screening are not testing the characteristics of a diagnostic test, they are applying the test as an intervention to an asymptomatic population with intent to improve outcomes. The topic of screening deser ...
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January 1, 2022
In this chapter we outline the history of evidence-based medicine in brief and guide the reader through key steps in building an EBM curriculum. We take into account the structure, platform, content, and process involved in a curriculum in EBM. By the end ...
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January 1, 2022
In this chapter, we make the case for starting a curriculum in EBM with the process of asking a question, deciding what study design you are looking for, and understanding where any study sits within the overall hierarchy of evidence. We then dive into tea ...
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January 1, 2022
Prognosis refers to prediction of outcomes based on the information we have available connected to a clinical syndrome. This topic is a good opportunity to expand and enrich a discussion of the value of cohort studies, as they are central to examining prog ...
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January 1, 2022
Shared decision making is a bridge from evidence to action. Acquiring and appraising the evidence impacting a patient is only the beginning of the process. It is critically important that clinicians present information in a way that patients understand and ...
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January 1, 2022
As the medical literature moves forward and standards of care in the treatment of many conditions are established, newer therapies which offer additional appealing features, such as ease of administration or fewer side effects, will often be studied with n ...
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