Evidence-based medicine: a review of medical librarian’s roleEvidence-based medicine (EBM), emerged into the medical practice for over ten years, is about the integrating individual clinical expertise and patient value with best available research evidence. Practicing EBM involves the fundamental skill of finding, critically appraising and applying the evidence to the clinical decision making.EBM extends medical librarian’s role beyond identifying and locating the literatures to involvement in clinical practicing and teaching quality information filtering and critical appraisal of medical literature. These activities require librarians to acquire new knowledge and develop new skills. Therefore, librarians need to rethink their roles in providing medical information. Medical librarians have the skills and are well positioned to respond to EBM’s information needs as trainers or mediators. However, there are many obstacles and challenges for medical librarians in EBM practice. Increasing literatures state that continuing education should always be a part of the professional life because librarians are facing excellent opportunity to develop and expend their roles. In this poster, I will represent why the librarians are important in EBM practice, and illustrate the medical librarian’s role in the areas of EBM teaching, learning, clinical practice and medical research. The obstacles for the librarians in EBM practice will also be identified.
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