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History of the Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center

The Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center

In 1999, The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center.  Evidence-based medicine is a methodology for evaluating the validity of research in clinical medicine and applying the results to the care of individual patients. Evidence is gathered through systematic review of the literature, and is critically appraised.  The results are then integrated with physician/patient decision making.

The goals of The Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center were:

1. Provide health practitioners and librarians with education and training in evidence-based medicine, and on the information resources and the computer competencies necessary to teach and practice evidence-based medicine.
2. Provide librarians with the skills to work in partnership with clinicians in accessing and managing clinical medical information.
3. Develop and support the evidence-based medicine needs of a growing constituency of medical faculty, clinicians and librarians through newsletters, listserves, and the World Wide Web.
4. Create and implement a state-of-the-art technological Center for supporting EBM practice.
5. Develop appropriate partnerships to mount important commercial  and "free" products on a regional single-site resource.
6. Explore the development of a library of critically-appraised topics to support evidence-based clinical care.

This Center is sponsored by Grant G08 LM06648-01

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