The effectiveness of interventions geared at educating health care personnel in the principles of evidence-based medicine for the provision of quality health care has been demonstrated by Professor Khalid Khan. On objective assessments, his face-to-face critical appraisal courses improved EBM attitudes and knowledge.

His projects allowed the dissemination of evidence-based medicine teaching in the Birmingham region in the UK, with over 788 trainees and consultants trained across 12 specialties. Opportunities to develop e-learning strategies for EBM were developed with the EU-EBM Unity grant from the European Union Leonardo da Vinci programme to produce and promote a unified curriculum for evidence-based medicine across European partners: University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Agency for Quality in Medicine, Berlin, Germany; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy; Arcana Centre, rakow, Poland; University of Szeged, Hungary; Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, and Hospital Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain; and University of Birmingham Medical School, UK. It led to 13 peer-reviewed publications and its e-learning curricula have been used to train over 659 trainees.

Professor Khalid Khan’s publications in this area have been highly accessed and cited, paving the way for a truly international e-EBM curriculum that is rigorously developed and tested for effectiveness. Teaching evidence-based medicine (ebm) and critical literature appraisal skills have been a key aspect of Professor Khalid Khan’s engagement with clinical colleagues. When he first established ward rounds and journal clubs involving clinical librarians in Birmingham UK, these were recognised by the Commission for Health Improvement review team as ‘notable practice’.