At the 2009 meeting of INFORMER (www.informer.org.in), the forum for Indian medical student' research, Professor Prathap Tharyan, director of the South Asian Cochrane Centre (www.cochrane-sacn.org), gave a workshop on evidence-based medicine (EBM). As a consequence, INFORMER became associated with the Cochrane Centre, based at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.