Students 4 Best Evidence is a blogging network by, and for, students interested in evidence-based healthcare. Learn more about the beginnings of our student community and how you can get involved.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?
This blog is part of the ‘Understanding Evidence’ series, a collaborative series between Cochrane UK and Students 4 Best Evidence. Selena Ryan-Vig, Cochrane UK’s Knowledge and Engagement Officer, takes a look at Cochrane evidence on cocoa and blood pressure and highlights some important considerations when reading research.
Introducing a new series of 36 blogs from Students 4 Best Evidence. This series is based on a list of 36 ‘Key Concepts’ developed by an Informed Health Choices project team. These 36 ‘Key Concepts’ are things we need to understand to appraise treatment claims.
Entries for the blog writing competition have now closed! Once all entries have been judged, the winners will be announced, and the winning blog will be posted on the Students 4 Best Evidence website.
Introducing Cochrane UK’s special blog series #theproblemwithsex, which aims to lift the lid on sex and chronic health conditions, on the lack of good evidence for treatments, challenges around talking about sex, and on what can be done to change things for the better.
Our library of evidence-based nursing resources features links to a range of resources that can help student nurses get to grips with various aspects of evidence-based practice. This page is continually updated, so do let us know if you know of resources that are missing.
Drum roll please… the results of our student competition to win free registration for the Cochrane UK & Ireland symposium 2017 are announced here.
Here are 34 key concepts that are crucial to understand to be able to critically appraise the claims that people make about treatments. And here are lots of resources that explain each key concept. Students, we need your help reviewing them!
We’re holding a competition for a student based in the UK or Ireland to attend the 2017 annual Cochrane UK & Ireland symposium for free. Competition deadline: 31st January 2017. The symposium is in Oxford on the 14th & 15th March 2017.
We are adding lots more resources and tools to help you get to grips with various aspects of evidence and evidence-based healthcare. We want to hear from students: what do you make of these resources? Are they easy to understand? Do they increase your understanding?
In the third blog of our new series, Understanding Evidence, Selena Ryan-Vig introduces Students 4 Best Evidence, a blogging network by and for students interested in evidence-based healthcare. Join in the conversation on Twitter with @Students4BE @CochraneUK#understandingevidence
We all need to be able to make sense of evidence, whether we’re making decisions about treatments, or weighing up the latest health story to hit the headlines. We’re partnering with Cochrane UK to put the spotlight on common errors and misunderstandings with a new campaign, Understanding Evidence.
Interested in communicating health evidence? Cochrane is calling for volunteers to support Wikipedia editing. Wikipedia’s health content was made up of more than 155,000 articles at the end of 2013, and was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in the same year.[1] Wikipedia thus is a major source of health information for people across the world. The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership, formalized in 2014, supports the inclusion of relevant evidence within all Wikipedia articles on health, as well as processes to
Keep up to date with the latest Cochrane evidence by following our sister blog, Evidently Cochrane. Evidently Cochrane posts weekly blogs, which usually feature new or updated Cochrane reviews on a health topic. It is for everyone interested in finding and using the best quality evidence to inform decisions about health.
Come help the Informed Health Choices project develop a new tool for evaluating EBM educational materials.
So students you have no excuse, register and join the Students 4 Best Evidence community today and get access to lots of fantastic resources!
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Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?