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 Curriculum

Objectives
PGY-1 learning activities-EBCP scripts
PGY-2 learning activities-Study appraisal
PGY-3 learning activities-10 minute EBCP consult
Small group facilitators-Teaching study appraisal

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

Global Health Track

Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS

Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum