Abstract

Introduction: Evidence-Based Health (EBH) integrates the use of the best evidence, the clinical experience and the patients’ values and preferences in decision-making. Its incorporation in health undergraduate programs in Chile is unknown. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in order to appraise the offer of EBH in the curricula of health undergraduate programs in Chile up to 2019. The integrated model Scientific Research Methodology (SRM)-Evidenced-based Medicine (EBM) in the School of Medicine at the University of Valparaíso was described. Results: 49 universities have health undergraduate programs and 8.13% incorporated EBH as a course, although all incorporated subjects that potentially include EBH contents. Medicine and nursing are the programs that most included EBH, but only one medicine program incorporate EBH for more than one semester. The SRM-EBM model (four semesters), competency-oriented and student-centred, involves designing and executing a research protocol, and the critical analysis of the best evidence integrated with the patients’ values. Conclusion: EBH integration as a specific subject is very infrequent in Chilean health undergraduate programs. We emphasise its transdisciplinary inclusion as an individual subject from a model which integrates the SRM teaching, especially in state universities.