Evidence-Based
Medicine Curriculum
The body of medical knowledge is growing at such a
great pace that the family physician of the future must be able to separate the essential
from the unimportant. They must be able to quickly access clinical information when needed.
And they must be able to quickly evaluate the quality of the evidence, in order to apply
it judiciously in the care of the patient in their office.
The UIC-Christ Family Medicine Program has an
EBM curriculum which is based upon the "user-friendly" approach pioneered by
Slawson and Shaughnessy, and presently employed in the literature reviews of the Journal of Family Practice. We teach the essentials of
journal article critical review, during a weekly "journal club." The concepts of
DOE (disease-oriented evidence) and POEM (patient-oriented evidence that matters) are
discussed, as well as the nature and quality of the study design employed.
Finally, UIC-Christ Family Medicine Residency Program has worked within
Advocate to arrange network access to two important "just-in-time" EBM resources
-- the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the ACP Journal Club. This will allow
physicians at any Advocate hospital to have immediate access to the latest evidence-based
reviews of the literature for use in managing their patients. This places Christ Hospital
at the cutting edge in the training and clinical application of evidence-based medicine. |
