Close attention should be paid to the advances in evidence-based medicine (EBM) which is a burgeoning subject in the teaching of medical literature retrieval, and some of its contents should be integrated into the teaching.

• 医学文献检索教育宜对循证医学这一新兴学科的研究进展多加关注 ,并将有关知识内容纳入教学实践中。