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- Title
Evaluation of a longitudinal medical school evidence-based medicine curriculum: a pilot study.
- Authors
West, Colin P.; McDonald, Furman S.
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is increasingly taught in medical schools, but few curricula have been evaluated using validated instruments.<bold>Objective: </bold>To evaluate a longitudinal medical school EBM curriculum using a validated instrument.<bold>Design, Participants, Measurements: </bold>We evaluated EBM attitudes and knowledge of 32 medical students as they progressed through an EBM curriculum. The first part was an EBM "short course" with didactic and small-group sessions occurring at the end of the second year. The second part integrated EBM assignments with third-year clinical rotations. The validated 15-item Berlin Questionnaire was administered before the course, after the short course, and at the end of the third year.<bold>Results: </bold>EBM knowledge scores increased from baseline by 2.8 points at the end of the second year portion of the course (p = .0001), and by 3.7 points at the end of the third year (p < .0001). Self-rated EBM knowledge increased from baseline by 0.8 and 1.1 points, respectively (p = .0006 and p < .0001, respectively). EBM was felt to be of high importance for medical education and clinical practice at all time points, peaking after the short course.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>A longitudinal medical school EBM curriculum was associated with increased EBM knowledge. This knowledge increase was sustained throughout the curriculum.
- Subjects
MEDICAL schools; CURRICULUM; STUDY &; teaching of medicine; EVIDENCE-based medicine; MEDICAL students; QUESTIONNAIRES; MEDICAL education
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 7, p1057
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-008-0625-x