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Overview
What is an OER?
Reusing EBM Express Content
Preferred Attribution Statement
Course Developers
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Overview

The EBM Express site provides an introduction to evidence based medicine (EBM) and expands the understanding of the practice of EBM for the information professional. Through video content and interactive learning activities, our goal is that learners will fully explore the role that librarians can play in the practice of EBM.

The content of this EBM Express website, consisting of https://ebmexpress.digital.uic.edu/ and it’s sub-pages, is being shared as an Open Educational Resource (OER).

What is an OER?

“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” — UNESCO. Open Educational Resources (OER). https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer. Accessed September 24, 2021.

For more about OER, please visit UIC’s guide: Open Education Resources

Reusing EBM Express Content

This EBM Express website has been built using Word Press Pressbook. Activities on this site have been built using HP5. Images on this site were downloaded from Pixabay. Icons are licensed under the Noun Project.

Activities can be easily downloaded or embedded using the “Reuse” or “Embed” features at the end of each activity. We encourage you to make non-commercial use of the 5rs granted by our open license: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. For example, this means that you may download and edit our content for use in your classes or professional development sessions. We do ask that you give us credit for our part in the creation of this content.

Except as noted below, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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This work may contain links to other UIC content that is not included in this license. This license applies only to https://ebmexpress.digital.uic.edu/ and it’s sub-pages.

Preferred Attribution Statement

University of Illinois Chicago. University Library. [Insert name of specific content piece if appropriate]. EBM Express. https://ebmexpress.digital.uic.edu/. Used under a CC BY-NC license.

Course Developers

Carmen Howard
Senior Instructor & Regional Health Sciences Librarian
Library of Health Sciences Peoria
University of Illinois Chicago
Ms. Howard has been teaching Evidence Based Practice since 2012. Her professional interests include Community Engagement and Outreach, Patient Communication, Open Education, and Special Collections.

Cathy Lantz
Reference & Instruction Librarian & Liaison to the Life Sciences & Associate Professor
Daley Library
University of Illinois Chicago
Associate Professor Lantz creates tutorials and asynchronous assignments to support information literacy instruction in the sciences.

Deborah Lauseng
Regional Head Librarian
Library of Health Sciences Peoria
University of Illinois Chicago
Associate Professor Lauseng has been involved in teaching evidence based practice since 2003 to a variety of audiences from medical and nursing students to public health professionals. Her professional interests include providing instruction on finding the evidence, promoting open access and open education, and developing collaborations.

Cynthia Reynolds
Senior Instructor & Regional Health Sciences Librarian
Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, Rockford
University of Illinois Chicago
Ms. Reynolds provides curriculum-integrated instruction and research support to students and faculty. Her professional interests include health literacy, outreach, teaching literature searching, and exploring the role of the health sciences librarian in AI and ChatGPT.

Course Contributors

Jo Dorsch
Professor Emerita
Library of the Health Sciences Peoria
University of Illinois Chicago
Professor Dorsch specialized in EBM instruction for health professionals and librarians throughout her career. She developed the precursor to this course and is a consultant for EBM Express.

Sandra De Groote
Head of Assessment & Scholarly Communications
University Library
University of Illinois Chicago
Professor De Groote was one of the developers and instructors for the original face-to-face version of the EBM course. She also taught EBM search techniques to nursing and public health professionals.

Cleo Pappas
Associate Professor Emerita
University of Illinois Chicago
Ms. Pappas is a retired associate professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences. Her interests include evidence-based practice, clinical librarianship, librarians in medical education, and health literacy. In addition to her role as a clinical librarian, she is a mother, grandmother, and fond companion to several fluffy canines.