Table 2.

EBM “concepts” included in the different blocks of the first year of phase II of the medical curriculum at the College of Medicine King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Block number	Block name	Topic
1	Foundation Studies	Introduction to EBM and PICO question
2	Musculoskeletal Drug and Alcohol Dependence	Non-experimental study designs (cross-sectional, cohort, and case-controls)
3	Respiratory	Experimental study design (clinical trials)
4	Hematology	Measures of effect (OR, RR, RD, etc)
5	Cardiovascular	Systematic reviews and meta-analyses