I've been wanting to do this for some time, and I have finally gotten around to it. I have made a button on the toolbar that has links to all of the evidenced based medicine tools that the school has purchased for our use. Also, there are links such as MD Consult, PubMed linkout, and Online Textbooks. These links can also be found on my website. The username that you will need to enter is your ATSU username.

Everytime I got the emails about Evidence Based Medicine, I just deleted them. Now that I'm in second year and the school is beefing up our needs for EBM searches, I wish I had started using the EBM searches ealier. Now, here is a very easy way to do this. First years, get started early--your second year classes will have you do this a lot (path,pharm, Women's health, etc...). I just hated having to log into the portal, click on "library", then, go to the "online resources", and finally, choose the EBM source that I always use. So, the toolbar and my website make it fast and easy...

As a note, the Dynamed EBM tool is a trial that goes away at the end of Feb. Let's use it! It is one of my favorite EBM tools (I like STAT!Ref better). I don't want it to go away. I'm so sick of eveybody saying "uptodate, uptodate, uptodate". UpToDate is the least robust of all the EBM tools, and is updated less frequently. SO, why does everybody use it? Ignorance...

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EBM Craig Hertz (IP:24.251.63.xxx) 2007-02-17 15:19:07 My personal suggestion on EBM: 1) LEARN THE BASIC SCI. 1ST! 2) EBM is hardly used in 3rd/4th year, let alone should be used in 1st/2nd year. 3) I like #'d lists 4) You can't understand the EBM if you don't know the basic sciences... 5) Personally: StatRef is nice, Inforetr is good . Ovid is good for current journals. StatRef is good for books and general lists. UpToDate is OK at best- though it is not uptodate and very hard to navigate and not a place for general knowledge 6) the 1st 300-400 pages of Harrison's is your best bet during the 1st 2 years... Reply | Quote 0   0

erikpaul (Manager) 2007-02-17 15:38:36 Thanks for the comments, Craig. Things are changing a little for second year. We now have EBM assignments where we have to support an answer to a question using EBM. We are graded not on the question, but on the EBM sources that we used to prove our answer. Also, in Principles, we are pretty much required to provide an EBM response to a question challenge (makes sense in my mind that we should do this). I presume that EBM isn't used as much for the clerkships because there isn't time and access to the tools just doesn't exist (does your hospital or clinic have wireless internet?). Quite frankly, I use the EBM tools on a daily basis now. Especially while studying principles of med. I look up a disease and find out the important features of that disease. For some reason, I seem to learn better by reading a good write up about the illness than by reading bullets in a PowerPoint. In all honesty, this type of use doesn't really require EBM, but, those tools seem to be the fastest way to get to the info (faster than looking up in Harrison's). I'm glad to see that you aren't a lemming that is using UpToDate because "everybody else is". That tool just sucks. The searching is terrible (no boolean terms) and the displaying of results is even worse. Thanks for the heads up... Reply | Quote 0   0

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