Don't just blame the evidence: Considering the role of medical education in the poor uptake of evidence-based medicine in clinical practice

BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 169-170

  Braschi, Emélie ^a  

^a CT Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre (CTLC)   (Canada)

Author keywords

medical education training

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHARED DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS;

EID: 85054033862     PISSN: 2515446X     EISSN: 25154478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111014     Document Type: Note

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