Table 1 Rule of EBM competition
From: Effectiveness of national evidence-based medicine competition in Taiwan
| Participants | A cooperative team is composed of 3 healthcare personnel with at least two different professions (such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and so on). |
| ■ Basic group | |
| ■ Advanced group | |
| Task | A. Each team has to develop at least two PICO questions according to the clinical scenario provided by the organizer at the inception of competition. |
| B. Each team has to integrate all tasks above and submitted a Microsoft PowerPoint file at the end of competition within a total of 3 hours timeframe. | |
| C. Each team has10 minutes to present their task results in front of the judges and all participants. | |
| 1. Each team has to state clearly detail strategies for searching answers based on the above PICO questions. | |
| 2. Each team has to describe the tools applied in appraising selected articles, and their judgment according the criteria of their appraisal tool. | |
| 3. Each team has to elaborate how the study conclusion can be implied to the patient in the clinical scenario and what should be considered. | |
| Grade weighting | A. A total of five judges evaluate participating team performances according 5 domains: |
| 1. quality and quantity of PICO questions | |
| 2. literature search | |
| 3. critical appraisal | |
| 4. clinical application | |
| 5. presentation | |
| B. Under each domain, there are several sub-criteria. Each domain composes 20% of the total score. Final score of each team are the sum of 5 domain score. |