Course Description:

How do practicing clinicians provide evidence based medicine if there is a lack of knowledge on understanding and interpreting the credibility and transferability of published research? This course provides a description of evidence based medicine, reasons for studying evidence, benefits and limitations, study designs and levels of evidence, critical design elements of a study, ingredients for impactful research and internal and external validity. Understanding the different levels of design, bias, and internal and external validity has the power to influence clinical practice.