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. |
| Â | 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. |
| Â | 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 |
| Â | 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. |