Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) can be defined as the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research (Richard Sinert, unpublished lecture). The fear on the part of many clinicians that their judgment is nullified by "practicing medicine by Medline search" is reduced by the fact that clinical expertise still plays a large part in any decision made on treatment, diagnosis, screening, etc. The fear on the part of many patients that clinicians are just making a guess and hoping for the best is nullified by reliance on strictly codified criteria of what constitutes good evidence and how to find it.
In the years after you graduate, two things will happen:
If you are to remain a good doctor, or become a better one, you need to stay on top of new developments as they occur. Evidence Based Medicine provides you with the tools you need to find important new medical research quickly and easily, and to work out its implications for your practice.