Health Sciences Librarians – II. Involvement in teaching students about EBM

Health Sciences Librarians – II. Involvement in teaching students about EBM

This is my second post about elevating Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians in India.  Here I would like to share an example from an article in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (USA) - about a study by a librarian and his medical colleagues.  (Read my first post here) This article discusses how a health sciences librarian conducted an introductory course on EBM for first year medical students and how he specifically did an intervention to improve their ability to "formulate an answerable question". Asking an answerable question is an art that one learns with practice and of course…
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Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

The project is almost one year old and the team at EVIDENCE AID has prepared nearly 500 short, plain language summaries covering more than 750 systematic reviews relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. The summaries are available in English, with translations into several other languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; with links to all the full reviews. If anyone would like to receive update about these directly, please write to callen [at] evidenceaid [dot] org https://evidenceaid.org/evidence/coronavirus-covid-19/
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Oral Pathologist Day

Oral Pathologist Day

25th February-We learnt only yesterday about this observance from a post by Dr Akshay Dhobley - an Oral Pathologist in Nagpur. Here is something for Oral Pathologists - a link to free articles in PubMed about Oral Pathology from India. Do share them with all Oral Pathologists! https://www.tinyurl.com/qmedsm210226
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