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The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford - Develops, promotes and disseminates better evidence for healthcare.
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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:
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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
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
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📣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...
Acquiring best practice in online education to support distributed learning in Northern Ontario
Canadian public health physician Dr Emily Groot shares her experience with the Developing Online Educational Resources short course.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New EBHC alumna blog in our Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Decolonising Global Health series 📣
📣 New in our Decolonising Global Health blog series: Dr Nicole Redvers, a member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation & recent Oxford DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care alumna, shares an Indigenous perspective on decolonisation in health.

Read her blog below:
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An Indigenous perspective: August edition of the Decolonising Global Health blog series
In the August edition of our 12-part Decolonising Global Health blog series, Dr Nicole Redvers, a member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation and recent DPhil graduate from the Evidence-Based Health Ca...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2025 Keynote Speakers
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August 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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 ⬇️
Transforming online teaching through the DOER course: A 'Q&A' with Senior Statistician Maria Vazquez Montes
Maria Vazquez Montes took the Developing Online Educational Resources (DOER) module through a fully funded bursary. In this blog, she shares how this short course enhanced her teaching practice in rea...
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July 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
July 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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...
Medical Statistics for Big Data
Advanced statistical methods for the analysis of electronic health records data
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July 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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

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July 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM