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The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford - Develops, promotes and disseminates better evidence for healthcare.
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Last chance to register for our final online info session for our Evidence-Based Health Care Postgraduate Programmes! 🚨

Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the slides and recording after the event.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/47PAEOH
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Oxford medical students in our Special Study Theme (SST) have published a systematic review on AI-assisted radiology in a peer-reviewed journal. Congratulations to the students and supervisors Dr Jason Oke and Dr Annette Plüddemann!

Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/dlphcfavhc
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Last chance to register for our online event tomorrow from 10:30-11:30am GMT for our Evidence-Based Health Care Postgraduate Programmes! 📣

Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the slides and recording after the event.

Secure your place: https://bit.ly/3LLy3fX
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
One week left until our final online information session for our postgraduate programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care!

Secure your place: bit.ly/47PAEOH

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Two weeks until our second online info session on our Evidence-Based Health Care courses!

📅 Mon 15 Dec 5-6pm GMT

Meet the course directors and explore MSc, PGDip and PGCert options, including the new Medical Statistics for Big Data short course.

Register: bit.ly/47PAEOH

#EvidenceBasedMedicine
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Will you be joining us next Thursday? Just one week to go until our first online information session for our postgraduate programmes! ⏳

Register your place below ⬇️
Have you signed up for our online postgraduate info sessions yet?

The first event is coming up next Thursday, 11 December 10:30-11:30 GMT 📅

Hear from our fantastic course directors and bring your questions for a live Q&A.

Register here: bit.ly/3LLy3fX
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thinking of applying for the DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care?

Join our online Interest Session on 9 Dec, 12–1pm GMT with Prof Carl Heneghan & Dr Anne-Marie Boylan to learn about the process and requirements.

✉️ Email to register: [email protected] / [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Two weeks until our second online info session on our Evidence-Based Health Care courses!

📅 Mon 15 Dec 5-6pm GMT

Meet the course directors and explore MSc, PGDip and PGCert options, including the new Medical Statistics for Big Data short course.

Register: bit.ly/47PAEOH

#EvidenceBasedMedicine
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Have you signed up for our online postgraduate info sessions yet?

The first event is coming up next Thursday, 11 December 10:30-11:30 GMT 📅

Hear from our fantastic course directors and bring your questions for a live Q&A.

Register here: bit.ly/3LLy3fX
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Considering a Master’s or postgraduate programme in Evidence-Based Health Care?

Join an online info session to hear from course directors, explore your study options and join a live Q&A!

👉11 Dec, 10:30-11:30am: bit.ly/3LLy3fX

👉15 Dec, 5-6pm: bit.ly/47PAEOH

#EvidenceBasedHealthCare #Oxford
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Is a DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) right for you? 💭
Co-directors of the programme Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Anne-Marie Boylan offer insights on the ‘ideal student’ and who should apply (hint: it’s not just for practicing clinicians).

Learn more: buff.ly/XPdJdJj

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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📣 Deadline extended!

Apply by 24 November for the Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine 30th Anniversary Award, celebrating 30 years of advancing EBM education.

Open to educators who’ve attended, taught or contributed to the course.

Learn more: ow.ly/A4Ja50XjLVz
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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FREE EVENT: New research on #menopause healthcare + Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) on Riot Women + free evidence-based support programme.

Free event, 29 Nov, Oxford – for anyone experiencing or supporting others through menopause.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Prospective EBHC Master's student from Africa?

We're launching our new EBHC Africa Scholarship to fund a student's fees for up to 3 years of their studies. Applicants offered a place on any MSc in EBHC starting in 2026 who meet the country criteria will be invited to apply .
More: bit.ly/4oPs1cs
Introducing our new Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) Africa Scholarship
A first step in promoting equity in accessibility to our EBHC master's programmes.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📣 Funding opportunity!

Apply for the Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine 30th Anniversary Award - celebrating educators advancing evidence-based medicine.

Learn more & apply by 16 November: bit.ly/4oiXK5W
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Following his presentation of evidence to the UK parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee in May, CEBM's Prof Carl Heneghan joined Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning to discuss a call to compensate women caught up in the scandal of faulty breast implants:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Woman's Hour - Clare's law, PIP breast implant scandal, Queen Victoria's mental health - BBC Sounds
Delays in a scheme to tell people if their partners have a history of being abusive.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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As Oxford medical students Holden Eaton, Kate Eastwick-Jones and Archie Watt participated in a two-week Special Study Theme with the CEBM.

Read their blog to discover how they took their study further and published their findings in the Family Practice journal.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/cebm-me...
CEBM Medical Students: Taking a systematic review from concept to publication
Holden Eaton (left), Kate Eastwick-Jones (centre) and Archie Watt (right) recently graduated from the undergraduate medical education programme at the University of Oxford. During their studies, they ...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Happy World EBHC Day!

To mark this special day we'd like to remind you of our new bursaries for current NHS staff which offer a 20% course fee reduction across many short courses including Big Data Epidemiology, coming up next month.

Find out which courses are included:
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October 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After centuries of use, there's still no consensus on whether nipple shields work and are safe for use.

Many women use them secretly or avoid them due to conflicting advice from healthcare providers.

Our team is conducting the first systematic review to find out what the evidence really says. ⬇
Nipple shields: the first systematic review after (at least) 300 years of use
Nipple shields have been used by breastfeeding women for hundreds of years, yet we're only now conducting the first systematic review of their effectiveness.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Dr Margaret Smith, co-lead on our new 'Medical Statistics for Big Data' course blogs about a recent study on maternal anaemia and congenital heart disease, using the CPRD GOLD database of electronic health records.

Students on our new course will the acquire skills to do similar.
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New Medical Statistics for Big Data short course: Advanced statistical methods for electronic health record studies
In this blog Senior Statistician and Epidemiologist Dr Margaret Smith, co-lead on our new accredited short course Medical Statistics for Big Data, describes a recent study on maternal anaemia and cong...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just to let people know that there are still spaces available. A technical error on the booking system showed the event as full - so if you tried to book and failed, please do try again!
Join us for a guest lecture with Professor Jeremy Howick: The History and Philosophy of Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials.

🗓️13 October, 5:15-6pm (UK time)

📍Rewley House, Oxford

Free and open to all. Booking required.

🔗 Learn more & register: bit.ly/4gscMTH
The History and Philosophy of Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials
Lecture by Professor Jeremy Howick Drawing from his seminal work The Power of Placebos (Johns Hopkins University Press), Professor Jeremy Howick presents a rigorous examination of placebo and nocebo ...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Join us for a guest lecture with Professor Jeremy Howick: The History and Philosophy of Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials.

🗓️13 October, 5:15-6pm (UK time)

📍Rewley House, Oxford

Free and open to all. Booking required.

🔗 Learn more & register: bit.ly/4gscMTH
The History and Philosophy of Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials
Lecture by Professor Jeremy Howick Drawing from his seminal work The Power of Placebos (Johns Hopkins University Press), Professor Jeremy Howick presents a rigorous examination of placebo and nocebo ...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
And that’s a wrap! Our POD conference transported delegates through a whole range of emotions as they navigated moral dilemmas, systematic challenges and evidence demonstrating the harms of specific instances of overdiagnosis, alongside the wider picture:
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September 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Planning some qualitative research?

Then find out more about our Qualitative Research Methods short course !

Dr Aleksandra Borek, tutor on our our Qualitative Research Methods short course shares how the course can offer invaluable help in her blog:

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Planning some qualitative research? Here’s how our Qualitative Research Methods course can help.
Dr Aleksandra Borek, Senior Researcher and tutor on Qualitative Research Methods shares invaluable insights into using qualitative research
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September 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Ready to go! It’s been a while since I’ve visited Oxford, I will begrudgingly admit it sure is beautiful, went for a dawn wander. And the venues are such a flex when I’m used to grey conference centres. Already very impressed how international the posters are
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September 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📣We are delighted to announce our new EBHC Africa Scholarship, to be awarded to a student starting an EBHC Master’s programme in 2026.

A ‘course-fees only’ scholarship for applicants from specific Lower Middle Income African countries.

Find out more:
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-a...
September 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM