Medico-Legal Society Funds 2012 HealthWatch Student Prize.

摘要

Our future health-care professionals need training in the principles and practice of evidence-based treatments. We are all inundated with publicity in the media and internet about new and allegedly more effective treatments but which, on closer examination, are based on poorly designed clinical trials that could not possibly support the stated claims. Medical and nursing/midwifery students and allied professions need to be able to assess whether and how far such diagnostic or therapeutic claims for a particular treatment are valid to guide their clinical decisions. The 12th Annual HealthWatch Student Prize Competition (which this year was funded by the Medico-Legal Society) aims to determine whether these students have the essential skills to critically appraise clinical trial protocols and assess the validity of research findings.