Critical Appraisal Skill Program

About the Institute

Evidence based medicine (EBM) is the way of the future. There are so many scientific publications in medicine over last 30 years and yet we remain confused about choice of treatment modalities. Health Care Trusts launched this institute to promote Evidence based healthcare in India.

This institute was inaugurated by Dr. Martin Dawes, Director. for Center for EBM, Oxford, on 23 April 2000. He also gave the first Indian course of EBM.(pictures below).

Dr. Beena Goel and Dr. Sumant Goel are making whole-hearted efforts. They have already given several lectures on this subject. If you're interested in conducting an EBM workshop or training, send an e mail to ebm@healthmantra.com

The Goels have also attended one week CASP workshop at Oxford during July 2000 and have attended Systematic review workshop at Bangalore conducted by Pain Research Unit, Oxford from 1-3 Feb, 2001.  Dr. Goel has conducted mini CASP workshops at Assam, Chandigarh and Nepal.

We are thankful to Prof Muir Gray for his support and encouragement. We have now launched the program to educate medical officers in Karnataka state (about 5000). The first workshop was held on 23-24 June, 2001.

Pictures of Inauguration and the course conducted by Dr. Martin Dawes

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Dr. Beena Goel was at the CASP workshop July 2000 at Oxford.

She has published an interesting article about Oxford in the Indian magazine ALIVE. The pages of this article are uploaded as images. CLICK BELOW