At the heart of evidence-based medicine is a pipeline: a flow of knowledge and insight from researchers’ computers to the patient’s clinic, where their clinician can explain their healthcare choices and likely outcomes.  Together, patient and clinician make a shared decision, based on the evidence of likely benefits and harms derived from population-level figures, and the patient’s own circumstances, values and preferences.

Intuitively, this is how contemporary healthcare should work – but it requires clinicians to have two core skills: to be able to appraise and understand research evidence, and to translate and communicate about that evidence (including ‘the numbers’) to the individual patient in front of them.

Many clinicians, however, have apparently not received extensive training in either of these skills.

Read more of the blog at: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotlight/2020/09/23/how-medical-training-needs-to-change-to-allow-true-evidence-informed-decision-making/

The paper evaluating the e-learning courses is here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111521

The e-learning courses themselves are here: https://moodle.wintoncentre.uk