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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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Barriers to evidence based medicine practice in South Asia and possible solutions

Barriers to evidence based medicine practice in South Asia and possible solutions

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R Agarwal MD, J Kalita DM, UK Misra DM Barriers to evidence based medicine practice in South Asia and possible solutions Neurology Asia 2008; 13: 87-94 The authors mention that teaching the practice of Evidence Based Medicine is practically non-existent in our medical curriculum, due to various barriers. Bridging these barriers involves effective teaching of skills of evidence-based medicine during residency, motivating established clinicians, increasing the accessibility to internet, and several other approaches. Even if a busy clinician recognizes and agrees with evidence-based practice, the literature applicable to the patient is not easily accessible and facilities for making literature searches…
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