The aim of this course; In order to support the evidence-based medicine and clinical decisions defined as the integration of the best evidence obtained through systematic research into the clinical experience, the students will be able to identify the basic definitions, sources of evidence, and evidence levels related to evidence-based medical practices to provide access to advanced information.

Evidence-based medicine and its history, basic features; steps, scanning different types of articles to evaluate the application of evidence-based medicine in health areas, formulating the clinical question, the components of clinical question, question-related research methods, search engines and databases (pub-med, ovid, cochrane, med-line), systematic review and meta-analysis, application areas of evidence-based medicine.