Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2011, 6.4 161 Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Using Evidence in Practice Problem Based Learning and Evidence Based Medicine: Utilizing the Librarian Trina M. Fyfe Northern Health Sciences Librarian Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Email: fyfet@unbc.ca Geoffrey W. Payne Regional Associate Dean (Interim) & Associate Professor Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Email: payneg@unbc.ca Received: 03 Oct. 2011 Accepted: 04 Nov. 2011 2011 Fyfe. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons‐Attribution‐Noncommercial‐Share Alike License 2.5 Canada (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‐nc‐sa/2.5/ca/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. Setting In 2004 the University of British Columbia (UBC) embarked on a distributed undergraduate medical education program (Bates, 2008). The distribution of the undergraduate medical program involves a multi‐institutional partnership with four institutions across the province: the Northern Medical Program (NMP) based at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George, the Island Medical Program (IMP) based at the University of Victoria (UVic) on Vancouver Island, the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) based at UBC in Vancouver, and as of Fall 2011, the Southern Medical Program (SMP) based at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. Since the start of the program, the number of NMP students grew from 24 to 32 students in just 3 years (Bates, 2008). The librarian for the NMP began shortly after the distribution of the program to UNBC in Prince George. Over the years the NMP librarian has offered support to students in various ways through teaching, collection development, library advisory committee with faculty and student representation from each year, and traditional reference service offered both in the library and onsite in the medical building. The print collections are integrated into the main library at UNBC, as there is not a separate medical library (Fyfe, McDavid, Raworth, & Snadden, 2009). Faculty support for the NMP librarian in regards to professional development and the further growth of the librarian’s role in the program