Delving into the minds of our target audience

For nearly nine years, we at QMed, have been teaching, either by delivering lectures, or conducting workshops. In addition, we have helped people with their literature searches for their theses, articles they write, and even systematic reviews. It is indeed wonderful that we have reached out to a huge audience. The crying need in the country is however, tremendous. And we deliberate as to why we are unable to reach out to more, when everyone has praised our programs and sworn that they are very important. While there are several specific reasons for our workshops not reaching large enough numbers, we…
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Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years – a protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years – a protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Ilic D, Tepper K, Misso M. Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years - a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2011 Jul 28;11(1):49 This article is a protocol for an RCT which will be conducted in the Monash University, to assess the need, importance and various other aspects of teaching 3rd MBBS students about how to ask a focused question and how to do a literature search for EBM. The comparison will be done between a study group that receives training and a control group that does not. The…
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Evaluation of a self-paced learning module to teach responsible literature searching for research

Evaluation of a self-paced learning module to teach responsible literature searching for research

Wessel CB et al. Evaluation of a self-paced learning module to teach responsible literature searching for research J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Jan;98(1):82-5. The article discusses something that is extremely important, and unfortunately as good as neglected in our country, especially as we are growing in the volume of Clinical Research that we do. It refers to the death of a volunteer in a clinical trial carried out in a major university, due to an insufficient literature search. We had highlighted this in an earlier newsletter (July 2009), and had mentioned that the University of Pittsburgh had brought out an excellent guideline…
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