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

📣 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

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/...

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...

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: ow.ly/wkOf50XeUY9

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. ⬇

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. bit.ly/4o8x1bR

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

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: ow.ly/Z39b50WV88P

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: ow.ly/Qvat50WWG2b

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 @cebmoxford.bsky.social

📣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...

We’re open for applications to our 2026 Evidence-Based Health Care PG courses including: • DPhil in EBHC • MSc in EBHC • MSc in EBHC (Medical Statistics) • PGCert in Qualitative Health Research Methods • PGCert and PGDip in Heath Research Apply now www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us

📣Only 3 weeks left to apply for our transformative short course Designing Online Educational Resources! If you teach EBHC remotely why not find out the seriously positive impact it had on Canadian public health physician Dr Emily Groot's practice: www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/news/views/o...

New EBHC alumna blog in our Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Decolonising Global Health series 📣

Two weeks to go until Preventing Overdiagnosis 2025⌛   From 3-5 Sept in Oxford, leading experts will tackle the most urgent and provocative questions in healthcare.  Explore the full programme, read the talk abstracts and check out our speaker line-up: www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/preventing-o...

How do you make online teaching more engaging? 💻 Senior Statistician Maria Vazquez Montes shares how the Developing Online Educational Resources (DOER) course helped her redesign her module into a more engaging experience for students. Read our Q&A blog with Maria ⬇️

Interested in understanding and finding solutions across the different aspects that can impact on overdiagnosis? Come to our Oxford conference: 'Preventing overdiagnosis 2025 - winding back the harms of too much medicine' 3 - 5 September. More here 👉https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/preventing-overdiagnosis

Our brand-new EBHC short course Medical Statistics for Big Data is now open to applications! Students on our MSc programmes can take the course for academic credit. Members of the public can take it as a standalone course. Find out more and apply today: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi...

Our students on the Qualitative Research Methods (QRM) short course went beyond the classroom last week with a guided tour around the city! 👟 Photo credit: Sam Allard, Fisher Studios 🔗 Explore our full range of Evidence-Based Health Care short courses: buff.ly/VcPDmvj @cebmoxford.bsky.social

Congrats to Gamuchirai Pamela Gwaza on passing her viva for the DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care, defending her thesis on integrated diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries, supervised by Annette Plüddemann, Carl Heneghan & Marcy McCall MacBain. More about the DPhil here: bit.ly/4k7mviD

A quick reminder that applications to study on our MSc programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care this autumn close on Friday, 27 June at 12 noon UK time. If you're planning to apply for this year or future years then our ‘Advice to Applicants’ video is a must-watch! youtu.be/KiXwil_x6ks?...

Prof Carl Heneghan spoke to ITV news supporting women who took Sodium Valproate to treat epilepsy whilst pregnant, leading to a wide range of birth defects: “It's a major scandal. More than 1 in 10 women on the drug will have had a child with congenital malformation." www.itv.com/watch/news/m...

Work for the NHS and interested in taking one of our short courses in Evidence-Based Health Care? Check out our new bursaries offering a 20% fee reduction to current NHS employees across 14 of our short courses: conted.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-nhs

Dr Emily Groot, a public health physician and DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care candidate shares how Oxford’s Developing Online Educational Resources short course is helping her support distributed medical education across Northern Ontario. Interested in the course? Apply by 19 Sep 🗓️ Read more ⬇️

Last week members of the CEBM travelled to Banff for the inaugural Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Conference: Looking at the Pandemic in the Rear-view Mirror: Successes, Failures and Unexpected Consequences. Read Dr Georgia Richards, tutor on the MSc in EBHC's reflections here: bit.ly/45kOp6Q

CEBM Director Prof Carl Heneghan joined other medical professionals this week to provide evidence on the health impacts of PIP industrial grade and superior medical grade silicone breast implants to a Women and Equalities Committee session in Parliament. More here with video link: bit.ly/3FbdzdF

Article on my newest research paper. Are GP incentives for smoking cessation hitting the mark? New study questions impact on effective care for heart patients www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/smoking... @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @cebmoxford.bsky.social @oxfordtag.bsky.social #smoking #smokingcessation #cvd

📬 Why did Nicholas Jones send a postcard to himself and what does it have to do with teaching evidence-based practice (TEBP)? In our latest blog, he reflects on our TEBP short course and how it reshaped his approach to medical education. 📅 Next course runs 15-19 Sept 2025 Read more ⬇️

Lovely blog post by Alexandra Caulfield reflecting on our Health Behaviour Change short course! 🎯 Thinking of joining us this November? Read her thoughts here 👇 www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/news/views/s... #HealthBehaviourChange #CEBM #Oxford @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @cebmoxford.bsky.social

Calling health care professionals and researchers! 📣 Applications are now open for our expert-led Evidence-Based Health Care short courses, starting in 2025-26. Gain the skills and knowledge needed to shape the future of healthcare. Learn more ⬇️ bit.ly/436rFFh

Every day, we make countless health-related choices – some intentional, others automatic. But what shapes these behaviours and how can we support positive change? Dr Alexandra Caulfield reflects on our Health Behaviour Change short course, sharing key insights and takeaways. Read more ⬇️

The climate crisis is reshaping every aspect of our world. Health systems, designed to protect & improve lives are contributing to environmental degradation through emissions, waste & pollution. Prof Sara Shaw & Dr Amy Booth Booth are co-authoring a book exploring these issues: bit.ly/4l6bVdj

CEBM and OxTAG members Nicola Lindson, Monserrat Conde, Ailsa Butler, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari and Annika Theodoulou, shared their smoking/vaping cessation research work at the annual Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco conference in New Orleans earlier this month: bit.ly/3DWvxzT

What does philosophy have to do with evidence-based healthcare? Philosophical questions permeate everything we do, including the research and practice of healthcare. So thinking philosophically about healthcare evidence is essential. Read about our History & Philosophy short course: bit.ly/4iHy7J0

Congratulations to MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care graduates Muireann Harte, Saleh Aljadeeah and Albert Stachura on winning this year's awards for outstanding dissertations. Find out their responses to winning and more about their dissertation topics here: bit.ly/4bHlvze

When thinking about Evidence-Based Health Care, philosophy and history probably aren’t the first things that spring to mind. So, what does the History and Philosophy of EBHC short course offer, and who takes it? Read our blog to meet the students and learn what they gained from it: bit.ly/3DCugxU

What makes a systematic review ‘living’? 🤔 DPhil student Melanie Golob explores this in her latest blog, comparing Cochrane’s guidance to real-world practice. While Cochrane LSRs follow best practices, many others don’t. 🔍 Read more: bit.ly/3Fs7ARi #SystematicReviews #Cochrane

Interested in gaining more advanced skills in Qualitative Health Research Methods? Read module lead Ola Borek's blog on the Qualitative Research Methods module, part of our PGCert in Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, which is still open to applications. Find the blog here: bit.ly/3JoE3Xz

Interested in gaining a greater understanding of medical statistics? Learning about logistic regression, Cox regression, survival analysis and more? Our Essential Medical Statistics short course in early April is for you! Deadline: Friday 21 March 2025. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/3DuHE7e

Catch our recent MSc in EBHC alumna Athina Metaxa presenting at the Karonlina Institutet's 'European Perspective on Psychedelics Research' online webinar series, this Friday. Sign up here to attend: news.ki.se/a-european-p...

Congratulations to clinical vet Caroline Scobie for winning the Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Award for her MSc in EBHC dissertation. Read about her systematic review to determine the effectiveness of a new diagnostic test to detect chronic kidney disease in animals here: bit.ly/4bnM1xm

Meet Marc, an MSc in EBHC student and physician from Canada. "The richest resources I find are the people; the people who organise, and deliver the programme, and my classmates. Everyone has a unique skill set and knowledge base." Watch Marc's video to find out more: bit.ly/41hSlBE

Meet Warren, a consultant clinical oncologist, studying the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care to gain an up-to-date set of skills to deal with complex numbers from a variety of different sources in clinic every day. Hear about Warren's experiences here: youtu.be/zvbmLY0muQs

Meet Albert, an MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care student and resident in psychiatry in Warsaw. Albert's focusing on combining quantitative research with qualitative research to gain a deeper understanding of his patients' needs. Watch Albert's video to find out more: youtu.be/G2byNSrQuas

Meet Eeshani, an MSc in EBHC student and physician in Ayurvedic medicine. 'When I looked at the course details, it seemed to cater to exactly what I was looking for - how to apply study designs to a field like Ayurvedic medicine' Watch Eeshani's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzV...

Why should you take our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care? Recent alumna Athina Metaxa shares her positive experiences of the MSc, the Systematic Reviews module and her delight at having a paper published in the prestigious BMJ in her new blog ⬇️ bit.ly/4gKhYRz

Meet Pamela, a DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care student who works for specialised UN agency Unitaid in Geneva monitoring global health projects. Her research focuses on low and middle income countries. Watch Pamela's new video to hear about her Oxford DPhil experiences: youtu.be/WDi-qGmlvX0

Meet Melanie. She manages a health technology assessment programme which creates policy in Washington, and she’s taking the DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care focused on living evidence synthesis. Thinking about applying for a DPhil? Find out more about her experiences: youtu.be/gXU3tZF519Y