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The event was called ‘Celebrating 30 Years of Oxford’s Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine Course: Reflections and the road ahead’ and a celebration it certainly was.

Four academics standing in front of a presentation screen
Professor Rod Jackson, Dr Annette Plüddemann, Dr David Nunan and Professor Kamal Mahtani

Event speakers included Dr David Nunan – Director, MSc in EBHC Teaching and Education and PG Certificate in Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care; Professor Rod Jackson  - Professor of Epidemiology, University of Auckland; Dr Annette Plüddemann  - Director, MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care;  and Professor Kamal Mahtani  - Director, MSc in EBHC Systematic Review, all of whom have played a key role in TEBM over the years.

Annette Pluddemann

Each shared their own EBM educator’s journey, the influential impact of the teaching EBM course, and the privilege and honour of being part of the learning journey of their students. One particularly funny anecdote was shared by Rod, who said that he went down the evidence-based road to 'keep students awake’.

Rod and sleeping students slide

Sir Muir Grey spoke about how the course had been defined by inspirational people in the past, such as Dr David Sackett  who Muir supported David moving to the UK in 1994 to set up the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.

David Sackett Slide

As part of the celebration, David announced ‘The Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine (TEBM) 30th Anniversary Global Award’ donation from the McCall MacBain Foundation to mark the occasion. Further details on this award will be made available soon.

McCall MacBain award

Our thanks to the many students, tutors, and administrators who’ve been involved in the Teaching of Evidence-Based Medicine course over the years. To read some of their memories visit our celebration page.

TEBM event audience

To find our more about our postgraduate programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care, visit the study with us page here on our Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine website.