Mission Of Professor EBM Curriculum

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) refers to the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The current advocacy of EBM derives from the growing evidence base supporting many clinical maneuvers, and the recognition of physicians unmet information needs, poor information retrieval skills, deterioration of up-to-date knowledge after training, and practice variations for interventions with established efficacy.

In particular, an EBM curriculum must include the acquisition, appraisal, and application of “the evidence” in the context of individual patient decision making. Many internal medicine programs are either initiating new EBM curriculum or transforming their traditional journal clubs. The objective of Professor EBM is to determine the prevalence and characteristics of EBM curriculum in internal medicine residency programs.

The mission of our program is to improve rural health care by developing excellent Family Physicians and advancing the discipline of Family Medicine in a setting which provides comprehensive medical care. Professor EBM is composed of 80 internal teaching medicine modules designed for use in internal medicine residency programs and student clerkship.