Our Story

This online course developed out of a teaching partnership between David Slawson, MD, and Allen Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd that started in the early 1990s. After receiving training in evidence-based medicine at McMaster University, they expanded the idea to what is called “information mastery.” Aiming to spread the word to increase the use of evidence to improve medical care, for 19 years they conducted a yearly multi-day workshop at the University of Virginia and then at Tufts University, teaching this approach to evidence-based medicine, information management, and clinical decision making to thousands of physicians, pharmacists, and members of other professions.

This workshop has been presented throughout the United States at hospital systems, residencies, and medical schools, as well as in eight countries. They took the workshop online in 2014, creating separate courses created to meet the LCME accreditation standards of medical schools, ARC-PA standards of physician assistant programs, and ACGME PBLI milestones for medical residencies.