Year 1 EBCP/General Internal Medicine Consults
EBM Tutorials
Schedule of Topics
During the Year 1 EBCP rotation you will have four tutorial sessions based on textbook readings. The purpose of these sessions is to cover topics in clinical epidemiology with which you are not familiar or for which you need review. Please look over the assigned chapters before the tutorial session, and make a list of any concepts that you would like to discuss. While it is probably not feasible to read all of the assigned chapters in the span of this rotation, you should scan the entire chapter and attempt to answer the questions at the end of the chapter to help you identify the areas that you need to review. The tutorial session will be more helpful if you prepare in advance.
You will be given a copy of the textbook for use during the rotation. Please return the textbook at the end of the rotation. Do not write in the textbook (Fletcher RW and Fletcher SW. Clinical Epidemiology, the Essentials, 4th ed.).
Session 1
Introduction to EBM; Accessing the medical literature (Chapters 1 and 13)
Session 2
Observational study designs (Chapters 5, 6 and 7)
Session 3
Randomized controlled trials (Chapter 8)
Session 4
Diagnostic test statistics; Screening (Chapters 3 and 9)
List of Concepts
- Evidence-based medicine
- Hierarchy of evidence
- Observational study
- Clinical trial
- Cohort study
- Case-control study
- Cross-sectional study
- Systematic review
- Meta-analysis
- Confounding
- Selection bias
- Measurement bias
- Risk
- Odds
- Risk ratio
- Odds ratio
- Absolute risk reduction/increase
- Number needed to treat/harm
- Parallel group design
- Crossover design
- Factorial design
- Blocking and stratification
- Allocation concealment
- Blinding
- Intention to treat analysis
- p-value
- Sensitivity
- Specificity
- Positive and negative predictive value
- Receiver operating characteristic curve
- Likelihood ratio
