• Division of Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
CHEN Jin, Email: zhenghuixian825@163.com
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Objective  To assess the effectiveness of evidence-based medicine for improving core competencies of undergraduate medical students.
Methods  MEDLINE, ERIC, Academic Source Premier, Campbell Library databases and three Chinese Databases (CBM, CNKI, VIP) were searched from January 1992 to May 2009.We also used Google to searching related literature. The design is a systematic review of randomized, non-randomized, and before-after studies. Two reviewers did study selection, quality assessment, and data abstraction independently. Different opinions were resolved by consensus. We used an adaptation of the quality measure from Gemma Flores-Mateo et al to assess the quality of selected studies. And descriptive analysis was conducted.
Results  A total of 17 studies met the selection criteria, 2 of them were of high quality, the others were of moderate quality. Studies involved Competencies of Scientific Foundation of Medicine, Clinical Skills, and Management of Information.
Conclusion  Competencies of Scientific Foundation of Medicine, Clinical Skills, and Management of Information are improved by evidence-based medicine teaching. No study on professional values, attitudes, behavior and ethics, population health and health systems, management of information, critical thinking and research is available. It is impossible to assess the four domains above.

Citation: ZHENG Huixian,CHEN Jin,LI Youping,CHEN Yanling. Effectiveness of Evidence-based Medicine Curriculum for Improving Global EssentialCompetencies of Undergraduate Medical Students: A Systematic Review. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2009, 09(10): 1048-1054. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20090186 Copy

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