Integrating an Evidence-Based Medicine Rotation into an Internal Medicine Residency Program

Abstract

An EBM elective rotation was successfully integrated into a residency program. This multifaceted educational approach with an "on-the-ward" EBM resident, may improve the EBM knowledge and skills of targeted students and residents.

Evaluation of an Evidence Based Practice Rotation for Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience in Response to MERS-Cov Epidemic as a Result of Temporary Hospital Closure

“…This finding was similar to previously published studies [5][6][7][8]. Hester et al incorporated literature evaluation exercises in a primary care advanced pharmacy practice rotation and concluded that it had increased the students' understanding and strengthened their therapeutic recommendations [5].…”

“…A survey was administered as a pre and post-test to assess the effectiveness of and attitude towards EBM rotation. There was a noticeable favorable attitude in the surveys of medical residents towards EBM rotation [8]. …”

“…Other published studies evaluated evidence based rotation implementation either as a course during pharmacy school or as a rotation during pharmacy or medical residencies [2,[4][5][6][7][8].…”

“…It also trains student pharmacists to be able to answer questions during patient care rounds or support an answer with evidence. There are limited published studies about implementation of EBP rotation into advanced pharmacy practice rotations [5][6][7][8].…”

Extended Evaluation of a Longitudinal Medical School Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum

“…4 Historically, the majority of EBM courses have been seminar series, workshops, or "short courses". [5][6][7][8] Courses of EBM instruction integrated longitudinally with clinical practice are rare, [9][10][11] despite limited but supportive evidence in favor of such teaching approaches to EBM. 12 Objective assessment of EBM skills is essential, as selfreported skills correlate poorly with actual EBM knowledge.…”