Evidence based case reports

BMJ 1998;317:1386 ( 14 November )

Letters

Evidence based case reports

Undergraduates in Cork have to submit them during their course

Results of search strategy should be given for readers

Evidence based medicine is not magic

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Undergraduates in Cork have to submit them during their course

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EDITOR $---$ Over the past two academic years colleagues and I have used the concept of an evidence based case report, similar tothat presented by Glasziou,¹ in teaching evidence based medicinein the penultimate year of our undergraduate course in epidemiologyand public health.

Students are asked to submit a case report based on the management of a single patient encountered during their clinical work.They are advised to identify one key intervention in the managementof the case and to summarise any evidence that supports this intervention.The submission should not exceed 1000 words, of which not morethan 300 should describe the clinical details of the case. Studentsare advised to use no more than five references and to take careto select key papers; they must describe the Medline search strategythat theyused.

The case report contributes towards the students' mark in epidemiology and public health at . . . [Full text of this article]