Introduction to Evidence-based Medicine : Key Summaries for Common Medical Practices

Be ready with specific evidence when you present patient plans during medical rounds! Concise and easy to use, Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine: Key Summaries for Common Medical Practices simplifies the complexity of clinical studies using key landmark trials in the core medicine specialties. Ideal for those early in their medical education and career, this portable guide helps you make the most of your limited time by introducing and explaining classic studies, preparing you to seek out and quickly digest future evidence-based medicine information.

• Highlights the landmark trials that have driven the evolution in medical practice, focusing on the critical information necessary to know about the study
• Organizes evidence by disease and further by diagnostic or therapeutic intervention
• Includes key takeaways and important notes from trials
• Indicates which studies are new or controversial to help you develop an informed perspective
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Bliss Chang is an Internal Medicine resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University who is immensely passionate about revolutionizing the way medicine is taught. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School where he was named as the top performer in the advanced medicine rotation. He has a book publishing soon with Elsevier, Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine: Key Summaries for Common Medical Practices; a title with Springer, The Ultimate Medical School Rotation Guide. He has also created educational videos for the famed First Aid Step 1 book and published numerous research articles on topics such as protein function in leading journals such as Nature Communications. Notably, he is co-founder and CEO of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology funded start-up that aims to help medical providers minimize medical errors. Bliss has been featured in several notable events such as Elsevier’s Global Clinical Challenge and was featured in the video A Day in the Life of a Harvard Medical Student which has grossed half a million views.