Learn why effective risk communication in public health matters and where you can get started in learning how to better communicate research evidence.
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 page provides a brief introduction to Cochrane and highlights some of the Cochrane platforms you can participate in, connect with, and learn from. Participate in Cochrane’s mission to produce and promote trusted health evidence.
Our library features links to a range of resources that can help you get to grips with various aspects of evidence-based healthcare. From statistics tutorials to guidance on how to critically appraise a paper. This page is continually updated, so do let us know if you know of resources that are missing.
What is ‘Responder analysis’ and what are the benefits and limitations of this approach? Read more in this blog from Giorgio Karam.
Sarah Tanveer provides tips and guidance for students attending their first Cochrane Colloquium, based on her experience at the Edinburgh Colloquium in 2018.
Cochrane Crowd’s Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager Emily Steele, and Co-Leader Anna Noel-Storr blog about the benefits for students of getting involved with Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform.
The growth in implementation science and research represents a growing recognition that successful dissemination and implementation is an essential part of evidence-based practice.
The Cochrane UK Student Elective is a bi-annual opportunity for students to learn and participate in the activities of Cochrane through their Oxford based UK office. I was lucky to be offered a place in the October 2018 cohort. I can recommend this programme to early researchers looking to add to their research experience. Oxford is also a great UK city to visit and spend some time.
The EU Trials Tracker, devised by the EBM DataLab at the University of Oxford, tracks which trials on the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) have reported their results within a year of completion. Learn more about this tracker and how you need to take action.
TaskExchange has launched new features especially for evidence newcomers! TaskExchange is Cochrane’s online platform that connects people needing help on health evidence projects (Cochrane and non-Cochrane) with people who have the time and skills to help out.
In this blog, Saul Crandon provides an overview of the Academic Foundation Programme, which allows doctors to explore a range of academic interests, gain additional qualifications, build their portfolio and experience life as a clinical academic.
In this blog, Saul Crandon provides the key points to consider, advantages, disadvantages, and further details regarding intercalated degrees.
Cochrane Malaysia and Penang Medical College, with the support of Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) recently ran an evidence-based medicine blog writing competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students of health in Malaysia.
Cindy and Itzel provide us with a student perspective of their time at the Global Evidence Summit. It was the first meeting of Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N), the International Society for Evidence-based Health Care and the Joanna Briggs Institute, which took place in September 2017. “…for our luck, it was our very first time attending a Colloquium. This event took place in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, the land of the first heart transplant”.
The Global Evidence Summit took place between 13th and 17th September 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event saw over 1400 delegates from 77 countries gather to discuss how to use evidence to improve lives. Heidi Gardner (a PhD student in Applied Health Sciences) blogs on her thoughts, experience, tips and hope for the future after attending the Summit.
A pyramid has expressed the idea of hierarchy of medical evidence for so long, that not all evidence is the same. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been placed at the top of this pyramid for several good reasons. However, there are several counterarguments to this placement. This blog discusses a new, amended version of the pyramid, proposed in 2016.
This blog introduces Evidology, a group of Mexican students interested in learning more about and promoting evidence-based practice.
This blog introduces the MiRoR project. It’s all about “Research on Research”: an emerging new scientific discipline that aims to reduce waste in research and increase research value.
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.
Ammar takes a detailed look at CEBM’s evidence-based resources!
Writing and publishing a health paper? We all know that it´s not so easy. If you have ever wished to find some tools and guides, this is for you!
Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
Ben has made an entertaining YouTube video explaining what an RCT is.
Cochrane Student’s Journal Club – An innovative introduction to the world of evidence based medicine.
There’s a lot of evidence out there of varying quality. This slideshow looks at the uses of grading medical evidence, and how it can be done.
Dr Cates provides easy to read re-freshers on statistics and EBM topics
Statistically funny – the blog that combines cartoons, humour, and demystifying evidence-based medicine.
A good website from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) – with a wide range of tools to help with evidence-based research
The BMJ has on its website a series of articles on how to read papers, including clear explanations of the statistics commonly used and common pitfalls found in studies.
This is a short, clearly written tutorial explaining the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine.
In this medical statistics tutorial we will be looking at how the data that are collected by studies are summarized and presented in order to extract useful information. We will then start to look at how to analyse the data.
This resource is a tutorial, providing a thorough introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). It describes in detail how to formulate specific questions when searching for evidence on a problem, how to find this evidence using online databases, and how to evaluate and appraise the evidence found. It also outlines the economic modelling and cost-assessments behind healthcare choices.
The EBM Pyramid shows the various levels of information available in evidence-based medicine.
Are you unsure of some EBM terms?
Then this site could be for you. It provides definitions and explanations on core EBM concepts.
This free course was designed for doctors and is successful in explaining the basics of evidence-based practice.
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