Learning Resources
Chris Cates’ EBM Web Site
Dr Cates provides easy to read re-freshers on statistics and EBM topics
A network for students interested in evidence-based health care
Dr Cates provides easy to read re-freshers on statistics and EBM topics
NICE (UK) provides thorough, comprehensive summaries of the investigation and management of common presentation in a primary care setting.
We can never be let down by the high caliber work of the Cochrane Library but its not just reviews that this site can offer…
This tutorial teaches the essentials about the statistics in medicine and covers various aspects of normal distribution (ND): central limit theorem, properties of ND, NDs with different means and with different variances, variables that follow a ND, normal plot and introduction to t-distribution
A must-have tutorial on how to critically appraise research.
QMP Medical Statistics Tutorials are a great place to start learning about the principles of evidence-based medicine. The probability & significance test, in my opinion, should be one of the first tutorials for a medical student.
This tutorial teaches you about one of the biggest enemies of strong evidence in clinical research – bias, as well as measurements and outcomes in the clinical trial.
Your patient has mild hypertension. What should you do?
Treat the hypertension.
Okay, how should you treat the hypertension?
Well, let’s start with HCTZ, that’s well-tolerated.
What will that do?
It’s a diuretic; it’ll help her get rid of the extra volume.
Okay, what will that do?
It’ll lower her blood pressure.
Okay, what will that do?
What do you mean, what will that do?
What will lowering her blood pressure do?
It’ll lower her blood pressure! Seriously—who are you anyway?
The NHS Evidence website provides a great starting block for many clinical questions, gathering information from several NHS websites as well as several journals.
A meta-epidemiological study published in the BMJ last month has found that smaller trials consistently report larger effect sizes.
Actress Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy has created a media buzz over the past few days. But is there evidence that supports this decision?
A review of an evaluating risk online course for 11 – 16 year olds, by our youngest blogger Liv!
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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?