What is Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)?
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has been defined as the “integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values” (Sackett 2000, 1). Although most physicians would probably agree that keeping abreast of the latest research findings is a laudable goal, many practicing clinicians base their decisions largely upon what they learned from medical school textbooks or upon the practices of their peers (Sackett 1997, 7-8). The present volume of published medical information is so immense that a medical professional would need to read more than a dozen articles a day every day of the year just to keep up-to-date (Davidoff 1085). The five-part EBM process serves as a guide to help practitioners improve patient care. History of the Project In 1998 librarians from the Lamar Soutter Library and a physician from the department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Memorial Health Care began discussions about collaborating to teach EBM to undergraduate medical studen
