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BMC Medical Education BioMed Central Debate Open Access Assessing competency in Evidence Based Practice: strengths and limitations of current tools in practice Dragan Ilic Address: Monash Institute of Health Services Research, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia Email: Dragan Ilic - dragan.ilic@.au Published: 6 August 2009 Received: 11 May 2009 Accepted: 6 August 2009 BMC Medical Education 2009, 9:53 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-9-53 This article is available from: /1472-6920/9/53 © 2009 Ilic; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) involves making clinical decisions informed by the most relevant and valid evidence available. Competence can broadly be defined as a concept that incorporates a variety of domains including knowledge, skills and attitudes. Adopting an evidence- based approach to practice requires differing competencies across various domains including literature searching, critical appraisal and communication. This paper examines the current tools available to assess EBP competence and compares their applicability to existing assessment techniques used in medicine, nursing and health sciences. D