EvidenceBased Medicine in Iranian Schools of Traditional Medicine According to Experts

Abstract

Background & Objective: Most experts of Iranian traditional medicine believe that it is absolutely necessary and inevitable to update the field to utilize evidence in education of Iranian traditional medicine students and treatment of its patients In this regard this study attempted to evaluate utilization of evidencebased medicine (EBM) in the curriculum of School of Iranian Traditional Medicine Methods: In this qualitative study semistructured individual and facetoface interviews were done to collect Iranian traditional medicine experts point of views in regard to EBM Content analysis was done to analyze the data Results: The study findings were classified in two major categories including EBM in the curriculum of Iranian traditional medicine and EBM application in Iranian School of Traditional Medicine The subcategories were also mentioned Conclusion: Although some sections of PhD program in traditional medicine are related to evidence based medicine it is not satisfying yet Therefore the concept and principles of evidence based practice should be included in theory and practice

Keywords

• evidence
• based medicine
• iranian traditional medicine
• curriculum