Organizing Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Journal Clubs in Department of Neurosurgery Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

摘要

IntroductionA journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to evaluate critically the clinical application of latest medical literature. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is ‘the use of current best evidence, in making decisions about the care of individual patients’. For this purpose, we organized journal clubs using standard EBM method, to substitute for traditional ones, evaluating efficacy of evidence based meetings in improvement of medical education in department of Neurosurgery.