Site map
An overview of the available content on this site. Keep the pointer still over an item for a few seconds to get its description.
- Our history
-
Who we are
- David Nunan
- Carl Heneghan
- Kamal R. Mahtani
- Richard Stevens
- Ruth Davis
- Annette Plüddemann
- Rafael Perera
- Ben Goldacre
- Anne-Marie Boylan
- Marcy McCall MacBain
- Stephanie Tierney
- Jeffrey K Aronson
- Emily McFadden
- Claire Friedemann Smith
- Joanna Lach
- Georgia Richards
- Rod Jackson
- Margaret McCartney
- Jon Brassey
- Bethany Shinkins
- Mike Clarke
- Mike Crilly
- Khamis Elessi
- Mark-Steven Howe
- Wangari Waweru-Siika
- James Burgert
- Jason Oke
- Geoff Wong
- Veerle Langenhorst
- Nicola Lindson
- Louise Hurst
- Edmund Jack
- Bavidra Kulendrarajah
- Veronika Williams
- Igho Onakpoya
- Kathy Taylor
- Nikki Newhouse
- Marta Wanat
- Thomas Fanshawe
- Clare Bankhead
- José M. Ordóñez-Mena
- Margaret Smith
- Susannah Fleming
- Jennifer Hirst
- Julie McLellan
- Geoff Wong
- Ly-Mee Yu
- Constantinos Koshiaris
- Emma Ogburn
- Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
- Elizabeth Spencer
- Jeremy Howick
- J Mark Riddell
- Luke Allen
- Trish Greenhalgh
- Dylan Collins
- Denise Best
- Megan Carter
- Richard Hobbs
- Nia Roberts
- Ailsa Butler
- Amadea Turk
- Tom Jefferson
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Tansy Pile Wade
- Nicole Juul-Hindsgaul
- Katrin Micklitz
- Juan Berner MD, MSc, MRCS
- Jong-Wook Ban
- Enderson Miranda
- Dr Arsenio Paez
- Dr Richard Colling
- Adrian Rohrbasser
- Rachna Begh
- Hendrik (Paul) Dijkstra
- Dominic Hurst
- Anne Jensen
- Ranin Soliman
- Muir Gray
- Oluwafunmi Akinyemi
- Daniel Howdon
- Daniel Howdon
- Peter Gill
- Iain Chalmers
- Sean Heneghan
- Justin Thomas
- Amy Price
- Georgette Eaton
- Ankur M. Sharma
- Nicole Redvers
- Annika Theodoulou
- Yixuan Li
- Lauren Masterson-Rodriguez
- Evelyn Pyper
- Sarah McKeown
- Rafael Perera
- Debra Westlake
- Trevor Treharne
- Jason Oke
- Maria Vazquez Montes
- Padraig Dixon
- Milensu Shanyinde
- Oscar Lyons
- Jonathan Livingstone-Banks
- Steven Markham
- Monserrat Guilherme Conde
- Oscar Lyons
- Benefactors and patrons
- Consulting services
- Contact us
-
EBHC FAQs
- What is the price difference between credit and non-credit bearing modules?
- Are MSc applicants eligible for Research Council Funding?
- What's the difference between the Annual Award Fee, the Module/Course Fee, and the Dissertation Fee?
- Is accommodation included in the price of the courses?
- Can a University Loan be used to fund the course fees?
- Is the price of completing one of the fully online courses the same as the 'Oxford week' blended courses?
- Are Award, Course and Dissertation fees the same every year?
- How can I find out if this programme is a good fit for my specific research and career development interests?
- What kind of project do people do for their MSc Dissertation?
- Can a short courses completed 'For Credit', count towards a Masters award if enrolled at a later date?
- Will I get a formal Oxford University Certificate for completing one of the short courses?
- Can the programme be completed entirely online without attending Oxford?
- Will I have an Oxford Email address for the duration of my studies?
- How are Courses/Modules assessed?
- How many contact hours are there in the face to face 'Oxford weeks'?
- What kind of time commitment is required in order to undertake the dissertation element of the MSc programme?
- What are the maximum and minimum number of years the MSc, PgCert, and PgDip programmes can be completed in?
- What is the difference between completing a professional short course 'for credit' or 'not for credit'?
- Where can I find the dates when all the modules/ short courses are running?
- Can the MSc be completed in one year?
- Does the mode of delivery still allow you to be able to work full time?
- Is there a minimum or maximum number of modules required per year as part of the MSc?
- Do modules/Short Courses run more than once a year?
- What date do short-course applications close?
- What is the process for applying for a short course or award?
- What is the difference between 'Blended', 'Fully Online' and 'By Attendance' delivery modes?
- Do you operate a 'waiting list' for the Short Courses?
- Is a certain level of English proficiency required to apply for the programme and how does this have to be demonstrated?
- Will an application for an MSc award still be considered if it does not meet the minimum requirement of a First Class or strong Upper Second Class Honours Degree?
- Is a Healthcare background a requirement for completing the Awards or Short Courses?
- How do I evidence the commitment of my employer to allow time for study, in my application?
- Are all the Awards and short courses open to international students and is the price of the courses and modules the same?
- Where can I find information about whether my international qualification and grades are equivalent to what is required for my application to be considered?
- Can the focus of a DPhil thesis be based on a project outside of the UK?
- How long does it take to complete the DPhil?
- Is the part-time DPhil delivered through distance learning, or is attendance at the University required?
- How are Supervisors selected and allocated for the DPhil and can the focus for potential projects be discussed prior to an application?
- Example student career paths
- EBHC DPhil Clusters
- EBHC Study Routes Overview
- MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
- MSc in EBHC Teaching and Education
- MSc in EBHC Systematic Reviews
- MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics
- PGCert in Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care
- PGCert in Qualitative Health Research Methods
- PGCert in Health Research
- Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care
- Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods
- Clinical Trial Management
- Mixed Methods in Health Research
- Knowledge into Action
- Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Screening
- Introduction to Statistics for Health Care Research
- Systematic Reviews
- Randomised Controlled Trials
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Essential Medical Statistics
- The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care
- Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
- Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluation
- Complex Reviews
- Meta-analysis
- Statistics for Clinical Trials
- Big Data Epidemiology
- Developing Practice in Medical Education
- Course Design, Assessment and Evaluation
- Developing Online Education and Resources (online only)
- Statistical Computing with R and Stata (online only)
- Clinical Prediction Rules
- Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
- Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research
- Health Behaviour Change
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods Systematic Reviews
- Fundamentals of Evidence Based Health Care Leadership
- Economics of Health Care
- The Masters to DPhil journey
- Oxford Medical School
- David Sackett Fellowship 2022
-
EBM tools
- Finding the evidence: a how-to guide
- Critical Appraisal tools
- Number Needed to Treat (NNT)
- Likelihood Ratios
- CATMaker
- Study designs
- Asking focused questions
- SpPin and SnNout
- Data Extraction in Meta-analysis
- Making a decision
- PaT Plot tool for randomised trials
- Searching exercise 'warm-up'
- Glossary
- EBM in Schools
- Levels of evidence
- Reports
-
Top tips
- Feel the fear and do it anyway: turning your thesis into a published paper
- Turning your MSc dissertation into an academic paper
- Writing words worth reading - 3. Reading to write and further reading
- Writing words worth reading - 2. Five guidelines
- Writing words worth reading - 1. Three general principles to get started
- Five tips to jump-start your evidence-based practice
- Explaining absolute and relative effect sizes - in a way you'll never forget
- Ten principles of good prescribing
- Ten steps to producing a successful mixed methods dissertation in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Tips for a qualitative dissertation
- Ten components of effective clinical epidemiology: how to get started
- What makes a good clinical question?
-
Systematic Reviews
- A CRASH course on the importance of systematic reviews in healthcare
- What have qualitative systematic reviews ever done for us?
- Four ways that a systematic review can over optimise an outcome
- Ten steps to producing a well-written evidence-based health care dissertation
- Five things to consider before you do a systematic review
- Eight steps to finding evidence for your systematic review
- SRs without unpublished data. Wasteful or not?
- Medical student blog- Systematic Review Signals
- Medical Student Resources
- EBM Library
- COVID-19 Evidence Service
- Our research vision, philosophy and methods
-
Projects
- The potential contribution of paramedics in primary and urgent care
- Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: a realist review
- Diabetes and COVID-19
- Green tea and blood pressure effects
- African bush mango effects on weight
- Chlorogenic acids in green coffee & BP
- Evidence-based multimorbidity
- Salt intake in heart failure patients
- Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Cochrane Living Systematic Review
- Consideration of adherence to pharmacological interventions in publishing guidelines and protocols for clinical trials in covid-19
- Opioids
- Preventable Deaths
- Protocols
- Our response to COVID-19
- Tamiflu as a treatment for influenza
- Anticoagulation care
- The Primodos story
- The harms of transvaginal mesh
- Evidence Resonates: EBHC DPhil research
- Teaching and Education
- Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Cochrane Living Systematic Review
- Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Cochrane Living Systematic Review: press coverage
- E-Cigarette for Smoking Cessation Cochrane Systematic Review: meet the team
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
- Trust the Evidence
- Podcasts
- CEBM in the news
- Views disclaimer
- Blog moderation
- Awards for teaching excellence
- Oxford researchers inform rapid COVID-19 NICE guidance
- Smoking in acute respiratory infections
- Transvaginal mesh timeline
- CEBM launches Open Evidence Reviews
- The Bodleian Library selects Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service for archiving
- Tamiflu and Relenza: How effective are they?
- CEBM response: “Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions”
- Professor Kamal R. Mahtani awarded John Fry Award
- Cultural environments can improve health and wellbeing through “social prescribing”, according to Oxford University report
- The role of paramedics in primary care may be innovative, but requires a stronger evidence base
- Concerns raised as opioid prescriptions rise across UK
- Clinical Prediction Rules: new short course in Health Sciences for 2022
- Can electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking?
- Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network launches website
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: rapid reviews
- Congratulations to MSc in EBHC student, Wei Loong Lim, on receiving this year’s Gillian Nicholls Prize.
- MSc EBHC students awarded EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding Dissertation
- Can electronic cigarettes help people quit smoking? (Updated)
- Congratulations to Professor Rafael Perera-Salazar on the award of Turing Fellowship.
- PCR cycle threshold may be key to predicting infectiousness of people with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic COVID-19, suggests new review.
- In helping smokers quit, combining treatments is key
- EBHC DPhil alumnus, Dr. Samantha Roberts, announced as new Chief Executive at NICE
- MSc EBHC students awarded 2022 EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding Dissertations
- UPDATE: First-ever Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School was a great success!
- Congratulations to FHS student, Harrison France, on receiving 1st place in IUPHAR Student Research Poster Competition 2022.
- World No Tobacco Day 2022, 'Protect the environment'
- Commission on Creating Healthy Cities launches report at House of Lords
- Congratulations to Course Director, Annette Plüddemann: shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor's Education Awards 2022
- Fostering connections between social prescribing link workers and the cultural sector
- Harcourt Arboretum welcomes link workers and social prescribers
- World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2022: 'Education to protect tomorrow'
- Latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking
- Response to Physicians for Smoke-Free Canada’s coverage of the Cochrane review of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation
- Teaching EBM 2020
- The Young Athlete's Hip Symposium
- Nicotine: the way in and way out of cigarette addiction?
- Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network: An interdisciplinary approach to creating an evidence base
- Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine
- Preventing Overdiagnosis 2021/2022
- The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care
- EBMLive 2022 (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
- 2023 Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School
- EBHC skills workshops (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
- EBHC Leadership School (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
- Introduction to the new MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (Teaching and Education)
- Lack of scientific freedom: causes, consequences and cures
- Introduction to qualitative systematic reviews (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
- Preventing Overdiagnosis 2023 International Conference