title: Evidence-based medicine in the education of psychiatrists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evidence-based medicine has an important place in the teaching and practice of psychiatry. Attempts to teach evidence-based medicine skills can be weakened by conceptual confusions feeding a false polarization between traditional clinical skills and evidence-based medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  The author develops a broader conception of clinical expertise consisting of three tasks, clarifies the role of evidence-based medicine, and explores the implications for teaching and practice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Evidence-based medicine is an essential tool that enables clinicians to assess causal explanations in etiology, risk, or prognosis, or to compare treatments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An explicit and inclusive conceptualization of clinical skills can provide a framework to implement and assess curricular efforts to teach evidence-based medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. vinod.srihari@yale.edu
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Srihari
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004645:Empathy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*