EBM Tutorials

  • Evidence-Paced Tutorial for Nurses
    This online tutorial was created at Penn State Hershey Medical Center to promote consistent use of evidence based practices in the delivery of nursing care. The tutorial will show the steps in conducting EBP.

This self-paced tutorial will take you through the complete EBM process, emphasizing the elements of a well-built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. This program was developed by the Medical Center Library at Duke University and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From the Boston University Medical Center Library. A five minute interactive introduction to EBM.

MI-INFO (Michigan Informatics) is a series of online tutorials on health information and computer skills designed to support academic public health informatics programs and public health outreach training initiatives. The nine tutorials are competency-based and feature learning objectives, key concepts, exercises, and case studies. The tutorials will enable public health audiences to better access, evaluate, manage, and apply information needed to respond to public health issues and problems. Tutorials include: Evidence Based Public Health; Finding Health Statistics Online; Searching the Internet; Searching the Public Health Literature; Staying Informed; Health Education Resources; PowerPoint Basics; Access Basics; Excel Basics

This is a Web-based course that introduces the basic concepts of Information Mastery, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBP), and critical appraisal of the medical literature. From Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University.


In this interactive narrated tutorial, you will learn how to effectively search for evidence-based medicine literature that will help in your clinical decision making. Turn your computer speakers on before you begin.
Learning Objectives: After completing this learning module, you should be able to:Formulate a well-built clinical question;Describe the levels of best evidence in scientific literature;Identify how PubMed defines the search terms you enter into a search;Formulate a search in the MeSH Database and run the search in PubMed;Find the highest levels of evidence using PubMed Clinical Queries;Find Randomized Controlled Trials in PubMed;Create filter tabs using PubMed's My NCBI;Find systematic reviews using the Cochrane Library database


Materials to help become familiar with the rationale for systematic reviews;Understand the concept of bias; Be familiar with different types of questions that can be posed about the effects of health care interventions;Consider study designs which are most likely to give a valid answer to these questions; andBe aware of practical problems in finding, appraising and synthesising non-RCT evidence.

  • The EBBP Process
    This interactive tutorial introduces the principles and steps of Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice (EBBP). It is designed for practitioners in a variety of health professions that target behavioral health, including psychology, social work, nursing, public health, and medicine. Learners listen to a series of testimonials that explore misconceptions of EBBP and learn about the EBBP process by applying it to a sample case scenario. Two scenarios are available, one for practitioners who work with individual clients and a second for practitioners who work with communities.

  • Search for Evidence
    Teaches behavioral health professionals how to effectively search for evidence to support decision-making with clients and communities. Screencasts show example searches in several relevant databases. This tutorial is part of a series on topics related to evidence-based behavioral practice.



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freynolds Free self paced tutorials on using The Cochrane Library 1 Feb 24 2009, 8:24 AM EST by schardt
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Self-paced tutorials on using and searching The Cochrane Library exist in several languages: these can be found at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/demo/ or by typing interscience.wiley.com/tutorials
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