Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
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Thinking, talking, doing science
An experimental educational intervention in teaching science at primary schools.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Therapy module
This is the therapy module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Systematic review module
The Systematic review module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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Assessing Risk of Bias in Included Studies
An introduction to assessing risk of bias using the Cochrane ‘Risk of Bias Tool’.
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University of Western Australia: Bias Minimisation, were the right patients included?
University of Western Australia’s explanation of the importance of involving the right people in treatment comparisons.
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Evaluating the validity of a therapy study
A web-based Duke University tutorial explaining how to address the question: are the results of the study valid?
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Teaching Tip: Understanding Regression to the mean in preparation for teaching EBM
Chris Del Mar uses dice to simulate the natural fluctuations in pain, and to illustrate regression-to-the mean by re-testing the outliers.
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How can you know if the spoon works?
Short, small group exercise on how to design a fair comparison using the "claim" that a spoon helps retain the bubbles in champagne.
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‘Tricks to help you get the result you want from your study (S4BE)
Inspired by a chapter in Ben Goldacre’s ‘Bad Science’, medical student Sam Marks shows you how to fiddle research results.
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Teach Yourself Cochrane
Tells the story behind Cochrane and the challenges finding good quality evidence to produce reliable systematic reviews.
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Basic principles of randomised trials, and validity
A 8-min talk on ‘Basic principles of Randomised Trials, and Validity’, illustrated by 15 slides, with notes.
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Appraising the evidence
Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia to introduce critical appraisal.
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Critical appraisal of clinical trials
Slides developed by Amanda Burls for an interactive presentation covering the most important features of well controlled trials.
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Randomized Control Trials
1/2, 40-min lecture on randomized trials by Dr R Ramakrishnan (Lecture 25) for the Central Coordinated Bioethics Programme in India.
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Why avoiding differences between treatments allocated and treatments received is important
Knowledge of which treatments have been received by which study participants can affect adherence to assigned treatments and result in bias.
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A simple fair testing plan for science lessons
A short worksheet to help students devise a Fair Test.
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Worksheet for planning fair tests
A TES worksheet to guide primary school children in planning a Fair Test.
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Drug trials in healthy volunteers
A 6-minute video illustrating an early phase clinical trial in healthy volunteers.
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How are medicinal drugs tested?
A group of text files for teaching students about how medicinal drugs are tested.
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Designing a fair test
Using an everyday example to try to help students realise what fair testing involves.
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Double blind studies
A webpage discussing the importance of blinding trial participants and researchers to intervention allocation.
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Introduction to Critical Appraisal
30-slide introduction by Jason Curtis, to Critical Appraisal.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Protocols
A 1-hour videoed lecture explaining protocols for Randomized Control Trials (RCTs).
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How do you know which healthcare research you can trust?
A detailed guide to study design, with learning objectives, explaining some sources of bias in health studies.
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The Fair Test (controlling variables)
TES PowerPoint presentation of 9 slides about the importance of controlling variables (i.e. conducting a fair test).
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Fair testing PowerPoint
A TES, 15-slide PowerPoint presentation by Keith Jarvis about Fair Testing, for 11-14 year olds.
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Investigation: Designing a fair test
A teaching tool for teachers to illustrate how to carry out fair tests.
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The placebo effect
A video by NHS Choices explaining what the placebo effect is, and describing its role in medical research and the pharmaceutical industry.
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What did James Lind do in 1747?
A 2 minute Video clip of a BBC documentary recreating James Lind's celebrated experiment to test treatments for scurvy.
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Psoriasis patients poorly served by research
‘Few trials involved comparison of different options or looked at long-term management. The duration of studies is unconvincingly brief in […]
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Helping people to stick to allocated treatments
Differences between intended and actual treatments during treatment comparisons can happen in other ways that may complicate the interpretation of […]
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Comparing apparently similar groups of patients who happen to have received different treatments in the same time period
Comparing the experiences and outcomes of apparently similar groups of patients who happen to have received different treatments in the […]
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Treatments with moderate but important effects
This section addresses the common situation in which treatments may differ only moderately from each other, but these differences may […]
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