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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Students’ PEARLS: successfully incorporating evidence-based medicine in medical students’ clinical attachments.

Students’ PEARLS: successfully incorporating evidence-based medicine in medical students’ clinical attachments.

Stockler MR, March L, Lindley RI, Mellis C. ACP Journal Club. Students' PEARLS: successfully incorporating evidence-based medicine in medical students' clinical attachments.  Ann Intern Med. 2009 Apr 21;150(8):JC4-2, JC4-3.  The article describes an experiment with "PEARLS" - Presentations of Evidence Abstracted from Research Literature to Solve real peoples’ problems. The interesting fact is that while it is easier to teach EBM to qualified and experienced doctors, this experiment was done with students in training -the rationale being that a positive experience with a simple, efficient model for applying EBM in clinical practice would encourage subsequent use. PEARLS are 15-minute presentations given…
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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.

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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