, Oct. 20 -- Dr. Md. Sayedur Rahman, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said universities must emphasis strong fundamental research as knowledge generated from one's own investigation is the most effective.

"It's like cooking your own meal as knowledge created from personal understanding and experience is the most authentic," he said while addressing a seminar titled 'Collaborative Knowledge Communication' at Bangladesh Medical University (BMU) marking World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day, 2025.

Emphasising the practice of evidence-based medicine, he said it is essential to make healthcare more adaptive and modern.

"It takes five to fifteen years for new information to be added to textbooks....