Evidence-based medicine

Welcome to the Wikiversity learning project for Evidence-based medicine.

This project provides learning activities that help Wikiversity participants understand and make use of Evidence-based medicine.

Knowledge

 * Medical Ethics
 * Types of Evidence in Medicine
 * Epidemiology and Public Health
 * Health Systems

Skills

 * Ethical Discussion in Medicine
 * Critical Analysis in Medicine

Activities

 * Case studies - review and group discussion of published case studies in the area of Evidence-based medicine.
 * History of Reiki - review and group discussion of the origins of Reiki and published scientific studies testing the effectiveness of Reiki.
 * Types of studies (Randomized Controlled Trials, Case-control studies, etc.)
 * Well known medical trials (e.g. ALLHAT, 4S, HOT, etc.)

Useful resources

 * Evidence-based medicine article at Wikipedia.
 * Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach it (4th ed) by Sharon E. Straus MD (Author), Paul Glasziou MRCGP FRACGP PhD (Author), W. Scott Richardson MD (Author), R. Brian Haynes MD (Author)
 * This is the definitive text on evidence based medicine (EBM) that formally introduced most of the medical world to the concept and principals in 1997.


 * Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition (Jama & Archives Journals) Gordon Guyatt (Author), Drummond Rennie (Author), Maureen Meade (Author), Deborah Cook (Author)
 * From the JAMA Users' Guides working group, a concise introduction to EBM.


 * Epidemiology: An Introduction by Kenneth Rothman
 * Epidemiology by Leon Gordis
 * Causal inference by Miguel P. Hernan