Need for EBES

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As mention above that the typical Indian medical education system has still not adopted the new approach of EBES. The question rises that what is the need of EBES? The answer is not simple but complicated. Typical medical and paramedical education is based on lecture and text book based education. The students are reading text books which are never standardized in our country. The students are reading only those text books which are liked by their teachers. But the fact is that many text books are based on old facts. When they come in market, there may be many changes in the evidence. The one example is the concept of intermittent therapy of tuberculosis. This intermittent therapy of tuberculosis (DOTs therapy) was tested and implemented in country in 1997 but it took years to come in book. There is big gap in what are we teaching in medical college and what is the actual practice? The EBES will reduce this gap and give practical teaching method to all students.
What is EBES?
Evidence Based Education System

The integration of professional wisdom with the best available empirical evidence in making decisions about how to deliver instruction

Conceptually it may not be new but it is certainly new in medical and paramedical education system. Here the education system is going to change. It will be more based on the fact and current knowledge available at international, national and local level. Critical evaluation of available information and taking judgment for the treatment of patients, making protocol for hospital or making implementing public health programme. The concept is based on the motto “think globally and act locally”.
The purpose of EBES is to fill the gap between traditional educational strategies and research based practices. This can be fulfilled by following approaches
- Promotion of learning culture
- Regular evaluation of teaching by peers.
- Creating tangible reward system to recognize and encourage teaching excellence.
- Faculty development program on adult learning principles.