Topic outline

  • Welcome

    Hi. This area of QMPlus is to provide support to clinical and non-clinical teachers at the Institute of Dentistry in helping to deliver evidence-based dentistry to undergraduate students. 

    This doesn't 'run' as a course and so the content is organised to address different elements of EBD practice and teaching. Please dip into them as you wish and feel free to ask me questions. 

    My vision is that 'doing' EBD becomes as much a part of clinical dentistry at Barts and The London as giving local anaesthetic or taking a decent history. It will mean many people learning new skills. It is an iterative process and so don't feel overawed by all the ideas that flow through this content. 

    • Announcements Forum
    • EBD Forum

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    • Reading list for EBD URL

      Link to an EBD 'reading list' for staff on QMUL library website.

    • Viva La Evidence URL

      A fun video about EBM put to Cold Play's Viva La Vida

  • Using evidence on clinic

    It seems that unless we integrate EBD teaching with what we do on clinic students and clinicians fail to use it. So educational prescriptions have been used in medical and dental undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to help students to think critically about what they are doing on the clinic.

    The concept is to ask a structured question with a tutor, to go away and look for the evidence (though this can easily be done using a smartphone when a patient fails to attend, for example) and then to report back on what they have found.