Evidence Based Medicine

Catalog description

Provides evidence-based medicine and research instruction to establish the fundamentals for these topics. Includes evaluation and interpretation of medical literature toward application to patient care. Develops the critical evaluation and thinking when evaluating current and evolving medical knowledge and research for the prevention and treatment of disease(s) by using common databases to access medical literature. Fundamentals of research, statistics, interpretation of methodologies, sample methods, and the importance of medical ethics are discussed. Course delivery methods for teaching and learning include lecture and small groups activities.