Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a truly evolving and expanding standard for the practice of medicine and healthcare throughout the world. This expanding body of knowledge and expertise has been fused into medicine to become the gold standard of care, as well as perhaps the only manageable way to extract accurate, up-to-date clinical information. The evolution of EBM has evolved completely since its inception in the lexicon of the medical mindset. Evidence-based medicine is believed to be relatively new to medical practice, its initial exposure dating back only to the 1970s and its implementation to the 1990s, as far as many researchers can deduce,1 given what the body of research presented. Given its relative infancy in overall medical practice, it has become truly intertwined in the evolution of clinical training and clinical medicine. With the preponderance of research and clinical trials in the healthcare industry, the future of competent and effective healthcare is completely dependent on the use of EBM. The current status of the physician assistant is and will be to continue to incorporate EBM into the training of his or her students and will proceed to effortlessly employ EBM in daily clinical practice. There are different scientific standards when it comes to evaluating and judging the effectiveness and progress of each branch of science. Because the randomized control trial represents the gold standard for medical care and an estimated 16,000 are published each year,2 it is of the utmost importance that all medical professionals are trained and able to use EBM. The physician assistant medical discipline is no stranger to the use of EBM as it has been a growing part of the article...(1):1-8. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 26, 2013. Facchiano L, Snyder C. Evidence-based practice for the busy nurse practitioner: Part One: Relevance to clinical practice and the clinical investigation process. Journal Of The American Academy Of Nurse Practitioners [online serial]. October 2012;24(10):579-586. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed 29 November 2013. Adams A, Adams R, Thorogood M, Buckingham C. Barriers to the use of e-health technology in nurse-patient consultations. Informatics in primary care [online serial]. June 2007;15(2):103-109. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 29, 2013.Ubbink, D.T., et al. Implementing evidence-based practices: outside the box, hospital-wide. Netherlands Journal of Medicine [online serial]. 2011;69(2):87-89