You'll be introduced to EBM in 3rd Year. It may seem daunting in the beginning and useless, but once you arrive to your clinical years, you'll start facing questions whose answers are not found in guidelines or books. Questions like: does adding a non-insulin drug to a type 2 diabetic on insulin, help in reducing blood sugar levels and morbidity as opposed to monotherapy on insulin only? Is it worth it to make this patient pay money to buy yet another drug aside from insulin? Or should I just keep him on insulin?
The university is not very proficient in teaching this subject. That is why, you must take it upon yourself to learn about it (we pay 95K for self-directed learning after all).
EBM Help:
This website is the best I have found in teaching EBM to people who need it explained in a common sense way like I do. Most of the time EBM will be explained statistically and that is not the way to go about it. The reason it was invented was to translate statistics to clinical practice. And that is how you and I need to understand it.
If you have found other useful websites, please share them in the comments so others may benefit as well.
An essential book for me for understanding statistical concepts in a simplified way (also useful for the community-based research course) is Medical Statistics Made Easy by M. Harris & G. Taylor.
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