#003 From ’evidence user’ to ’evidence-based practitioner’

How do we know which type evidence is 'best' in each situation? How do we invite medical students to critically reflect on the way they integrate medical knowledge and medical expertise? How can they transform from 'evidence users' into 'evidence-based practitioners'?

We discuss the third installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal --

"Teaching Medical Epistemology within an Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum" with the authors Mark Tonelli and Robyn Bluhm. You can download the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2020.1835666 

Nabilah Mayat (https://twitter.com/NabilahMayat) is my co-host for this episode.

Information on the authors:

Mark Tonelli: https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/mark-r-tonelli-md-ma 

Robyn Bluhm: https://philosophy.msu.edu/faculty-staff/robyn-bluhm/

Here are the the publications that we mention in the podcast:

This is Mark's article A Philosophical Approach to Addressing Uncertainty in Medical Education: https://uwopenhearted.weebly.com/uploads/9/7/1/1/97112254/tonelli-2019.pdf 

Here's a link to the New York Times story Robyn mentions toward the end of our conversation: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/covid-drug-wars-doctors.html

If you have any questions about this episode, let me know! https://twitter.com/MarioVeen 

Mario