Spotlight on mentoring undergraduate medical students using evidence-based medicine

Abstract Introduction Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is currently used for patient management and to draw up recommendations. However, the effectiveness of EBM-related teaching during the mentoring of undergraduate medical students has not been widely evaluated. In this work, we aimed to (1) review published articles on EBM-related teaching during undergraduate clinical rotations and (2) to investigate the effectiveness of the EBM mentoring strategies used. Methods We performed a structured narra