The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project was funded by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. All of the course materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Component 2 - The Culture of Healthcare Component Overview: For individuals not familiar with healthcare, this component addresses job expectations in healthcare settings. It discusses how care is organized within a practice setting, privacy laws, and professional and ethical issues encountered in the workplace. Unit Title Evidence-Based Practice Unit Overview: This unit describes the application of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The discussion begins with the framing of clinical questions that can be answered by appropriate evidence. It then demonstrates how to find and apply the best evidence for answering four major types of clinical questions: interventions, diagnosis, harm, and prognosis. The unit also introduces summarizing of evidence (systematic reviews) as well as clinical practice guidelines and concludes with a discussion of the limitations of EBM. Unit Objectives: By the end of this unit the student will be able to: 1. Define the key tenets of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and its role in the culture of healthcare (Lecture a, b) 2. Construct answerable clinical questions and critically appraise evidence answering them (Lecture b) 3. Apply EBM for intervention studies, including the phrasing of answerable questions, finding evidence to answer them, and applying them to given clinical situations (Lecture c) 4. Understand EBM applied to the other key clinical questions of diagnosis, harm, and prognosis (Lecture d, e) 5. Discuss the benefits and limitations to summarizing evidence (Lecture f) 6. Describe how to implement EBM in clinical settings through clinical practice guidelines and decision analysis (Lecture g)
