Global Health Track: EBM

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice (EBCP)

Welcome to our website for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice (EBCP). This site will help you navigate through our curriculum and introduce you to EBCP concepts.

Below, you will find links to our EBCP curriculum as well as to useful resources and other material.

We appreciate your feedback regarding the EBCP curriculum and this website. Please e-mail your comments to Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS at smithkj2@upmc.edu.

EBCP Critically Appraised Topics

Examples

EBCP Literature Sources

Evidence-Based Summaries
These resources allow search based on disease/disorder and provide summaries of evidence for multiple interventions

Clinical Evidence
ACP PIER
UpToDate
TRIP database

Systematic reviews
These resources provide reviews with explicit methodology (systematic) usually focusing on one intervention

Cochrane Library
MEDLINE
TRIP database

Pre-appraised studies
These resources provide structured appraisal of studies, frequently with expert commentary

ACP Journal Club
BMJ Evidence updates
Evidence Based Medicine Journal
Journal Watch
Essential evidence plus podcast

Original studies

MEDLINE
EMBASE
Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials
Various primary journals

General information on EBCP

Center for EBM
Bandolier
JAMA evidence

Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS

Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum