There are about 40,000 biomedical journals in the world, which annually publish nearly two million articles on new methods of diagnosis and treatment, the use of new drugs. With the expansion of the number of the medical information sources the principles of evidence-based medicine have become simply irreplaceable in the practice. They aim at ensuring of the application of the most effective method of treatment in every certain case. That is why the Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan makes consistent effort to implement the principles of evidence-based medicine into practice of the physicians.

An important step was the introduction of the “Principles of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology” course in the curricula of medical schools. Today the country works on the improvement of the efficiency of the studies conducted within the framework of the course. Among these activities is the professional development of teachers organized by the School of Public Health, Tashkent Medical Academy in conjunction with the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the Tashkent Institute of Advanced Medical Training and other organizations.

Training programs are designed in accordance with the best domestic experience in teaching of this discipline and the experience of Boston and Oxford Universities,” said Bakhtiyor Mamatkulov, the director of the School of Public Health at the Tashkent Medical Academy. “We teach teachers the techniques to make difficult topics more accessible and understandable for the students.”

Today about 250 teachers of Tashkent Medical Academy, the Tashkent Medical Pediatric Institute, and the Andijon State Medical Institute have already completed the training sessions. Such seminars will be held in Bukhoro and Samarqand State Medical Institutes. In January 2011 the educational-methodical conference on the teaching of evidence-based medicine at medical schools and centers for advanced medical training is to be performed.