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Users' Guides Interactive

For more information about the textbooks, CD-ROMs, and the Users' Guides Interactive, please visit http://www.usersguides.org.

Project Description

In 2001, the American Medical Association (AMA Press and JAMA and Archives Journals), the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group and the Centre for Health Evidence collaborated to produce the book and CD-ROM entitled "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a Manual for Evidence-based Clinical Practice." This was an entirely new rendering of the Users' Guides that were first published as a series of articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The same team has collaborated to produce "Users' Guides Interactive." The Users' Guides Interactive are a web version of the book, containing all of the original content as well as additional learning and teaching materials not included in the book or CD-ROM.

The Users' Guides Interactive is currently planned in 3 stages:

  • UGI Learner: comprehensive package to the learner of evidence-based medicine (EBM), currently available at http://www.usersguides.org. Includes the full text Users' Guides manual along with additional tools such as interactive worksheets, calculators, cases, key concepts for each chapter, and question-building tools.
  • UGI Practitioner: allows the UG collaborators to work with a number of groups on a case-by-case basis and help develop comprehensive, integrated learning packages specific to their needs. Aims at packaging Learner with other knowledge products to provide enhanced learning environments for specific groups.
  • UGI Teacher: addresses the needs of teachers of EBM. Includes all the interactivity and resources of UGI Learner, the methods for integrating and packaging found in UGI Practitioner, but goes beyond both by offering a comprehensive and evolving set of EBM curricular materials (such as slide sets, multiple choice quizzes, tools for building evidence-based cases, critical appraisal topics and packages, EBM teaching tips).

There are also opportunities for collaboration on the Users' Guides Interactive:

  • developing and/or reviewing new content
  • publishing articles, reviews, or comments in special topic bulletins
  • offering suggestions and ideas for tutorials
  • publishing EBM cases
  • sharing ideas for future directions
  • participating in a community of learners

If you are interested in collaborating in any of these ways, please contact us at .

CHE's Role

CHE has taken the lead in the conceptual design and preparation of the Users' Guides Interactive (developing and organizing the website), while all editors and collaborators (AMA Press, JAMA, EBMWG) have been involved in an iterative process of feedback and improvement. CHE develops, packages, and integrates interactive materials for the Guides that are not found in the CD-ROM or book such as:

  • Alternative table of contents views
  • Tools for forming well-built clinical questions
  • Summaries of key concepts
  • EBM Calculators
  • Interactive Worksheets
  • Interactive Cases

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