HIP 507A Evidence-based Medicine Seminar

1. awareness of the best available evidence,
2. assessment of the applicability or trustworthiness of the evidence, and
3. aligning the balance of harms/benefits/costs with the values and preferences of the patient.

This evidence-based medicine seminar expands upon earlier teaching on research design to guide students in the critical assessment of evidence arising from the broad array of clinical research designs used in published studies. The goal of this seminar is for students to gain familiarity with evaluating the validity of various study designs used in published research and identify the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of presenting the results of a study (e.g., relative risk reduction versus absolute risk reduction). As they learn about clinical research design in other courses or encounter studies in their daily work, the students have the opportunity to immediately apply that knowledge by critically reading recently published studies or hone their skills using supplied articles. This module is conducted through short didactic sessions, guest lecturers, and small group discussion and through critically reading and appraising the literature.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be repeated for credit