Short courses in evidence based medicine can work

Short courses in evidence based medicine can lead to a clinically relevant increase in knowledge and skills, which is a prerequisite for evidence based practice. In a three year study among postgraduate doctors in Germany, Fritsche and colleagues (p 1338) investigated the effectiveness of teaching evidence based medicine. Using a specifically developed and validated instrument, they confirmed a short term change in knowledge and skills. The instrument reliably distinguished knowledge and skills between groups with different levels of expertise. Recent reviews, mostly based on low quality studies, had queried the benefit of short courses in evidence based medicine.

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Do short courses in evidence based medicine improve knowledge and skills? Validation of Berlin questionnaire and before and after study of courses in evidence based medicine

L Fritsche, T Greenhalgh, Y Falck-Ytter, H-H Neumayer, and R Kunz
BMJ 2002 325: 1338-1341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]