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

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

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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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Tips for teaching evidence-based medicine in a clinical setting: lessons from adult learning theory. Part 1 & 2.

Tips for teaching evidence-based medicine in a clinical setting: lessons from adult learning theory. Part 1 & 2.

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Das Kausik et al.  Tips for teaching evidence-based medicine in a clinical setting: lessons from adult learning theory. Part 1 & 2. J R Soc Med. 2008; 101(10):493-500 AND 101(11):536-43. The articles (2 parts) describe how to teach EBM in a clinical setting. The authors have given some very practical tips on how to get good results form such a teaching program. The 2nd part also has a list of questions one should ask oneself regularly to be a practitioner of Evidence based practice. We also appreciate the authors' emphasis on the need to have good search skills and to…
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Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group – Series of Articles

Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group – Series of Articles

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Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group Here is a series of articles from the "Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Tips Working Group" . Simply click the link above to get a set of eight articles that this group has published, working with other authors, on statistics and critical appraisal of papers. Very useful for those who'd like to both teachers and  learners of EBM, statistics and appraisal! Appeared in QMedCONNECT, Vol 1, Issue 8, Sept 2008
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