Abstract
Background and Objective: One of the important and obvious revolutions on education and practice of medicine is Evidence Based Medicine(EBM). EBM is conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about individual patients. The aim of this study was to determine attitude of faculty members of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and health services to EBM. Accordingly, it was focused on measuring the rate of retrieval, critical appraisal and application of EBM among clinical faculty members.
Materials and Method: Questionnaire research method was applied by this survey. Totally, 130 questionnaires were distributed among surveying society and 106 relevant questionnaires were gathered. Data were analysed by in Microsoft Excel.
Results: Of responders 43.4% announced that they are familiar with EBM. However 45.3% of responders reported that they would apply EBM in decision-making, and 33.3% claimed that their retrieved clinical evident had correspondence with their special patient. Of 46/1% reported PubMed as their main source of retrieving for EBM, about 18.5% said that they use WWW, only 29.7 % reported that they use specifically developed EBM sites. Most of them announced that they did not know specific search strategy, except 1.9% that clearly announced to using particular and appropriate strategy for evaluating their own retrieved clinical evident.
Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the clinical faculty members have not a clear cognition about EBM. Most of them applied clinical evidences but they didn’t know how they can evaluate EBM and where they can find quality evidences. So, an obvious gap is seen between modern medical education and practice of study group. It is suggested that our trainer needs learning new approaches that are known as representative of medical informatics.