Welcome to the Guide to Information Mastery! This guide
will lead you into the heart of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM), trying
to answer clinical questions with the best evidence out in the information
jungle!
Contents
CLUB
J: Describes what Club J is, how to run it, its Goals and Objectives
- If you are a resident asked to do Club J, start
HERE to understand your tasks!
Information Mastery:
How to tackle the Information Jungle
- What is EBM?
- Formulate a Question to Answer (PICO)
- How to search the medical literature
- What Kind of Study is this?
Critical Appraisal: A
step-by-step approach to critically analyzing the literature
- How to analyze the literature
- Analyze Therapy, Harm, Diagnosis and Prognosis
articles
Resources:
A link page of EBM resource
- General Links
- Statistical, EBM calculators
- BMJ Guide to the literature
- JAMA Guide to the Medical Literature
- Ovid and Beyond
Credits
This is a product of the Madigan Faculty Development Fellowship.
Website design and systematic worksheet development by Dr. Robert Oh.
Original concept and design by Dr. Maureen O'Hara Padden, Dr. John Holman,
Dr. John Heflin and Dr. Ken Yew. Many thanks to the Fellows, Dr. Sandy
Kimmer, Dr. Aaron Saguil and Dr. Brian Smoley and the many others who
have given input to the curriculum and the website.
Got any suggestions or improvements
to the site design or content?
contact webmaster at: roboh98 at gmail. com
