Medicine residents' understanding of the biostatistics and results in the medical literature

JAMA

Volumn 298, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1010-1022

  Windish, Donna M ^a   Huot, Stephen J ^a   Green, Michael L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION;

EID: 34548426480     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.298.9.1010     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. McColl A, Smith H, White P, Field J. General practitioner's perceptions of the route to evidence based medicine: a questionnaire survey. BMJ. 1998;316(7128):361-365.
2. Young JM, Ward JE. Evidence-based medicine in general practice: beliefs and barriers among Australian GPs. J Eval Clin Pract. 2001;7(2):201-210.
3. Putnam W, Twohig PL, Burge FI, Jackson LA, Cox JL. A qualitative study of evidence in primary care: what the practitioners are saying. CMAJ. 2002;166(12):1525-1530.
4. Haynes RB. Of studies, syntheses, synopses, summaries, and systems: the "5S" evolution of information services for evidence-based healthcare decisions. Evid Based Med. 2006;11(6):162-164.
5. Berwick DM, Fineberg HV, Weinstein MC. When doctors meet numbers. Am J Med. 1981;71(6):991-998.
6. Weiss ST, Samet JM. An assessment of physician knowledge of epidemiology and biostatistics. J Med Educ. 1980;55(8):692-697.
7. Wulff HR, Andersen B, Brandenhoff P, Guttler F. What do doctors know about statistics? Stat Med. 1987;6(1):3-10.
8. Horton NJ, Switzer SS. Statistical methods in the journal. N Engl J Med. 2005;353(18):1977-1979.
9. Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Curriculum directory. http://services.aamc.org/currdir /section4/start.cfm. Accessed April 14, 2007.
10. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Outcome project: enhancing residency education through outcomes assessment. http://www.acgme.org/Outcome/. Accessed January 12, 2007.
11. Green ML. Evidence-based medicine training in internal medicine residency programs: a national survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2000;15(2):129-133.
12. Dellavalle RP, Stegner DL, Deas AM, et al. Assessing evidence-based dermatology and evidencebased internal medicine curricula in US residency training programs: a national survey. Arch Dermatol. 2003;139(3):369-372.
13. Alguire PC. A review of journal clubs in postgraduate medical education. J Gen Intern Med. 1998;13(5):347-353.
14. Green ML. Graduate medical education training in clinical epidemiology, critical appraisal, and evidence-based medicine: a critical review of curricula. Acad Med. 1999;74(6):686-694.
15. Shaneyfelt T, Baum KD, Bell D, et al. Instruments for evaluating education in evidence-based practice: a systematic review. JAMA. 2006;296(9):1116-1127.
16. Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking (ARTIST) Web site. https://ore.gen.umn.edu/artist/index.html. Accessed January 9, 2007.
17. Department of Biostatistics; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Course materials from Statistical Methods in Public Health II and III, 2003-2004 academic year. http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio622/index.html. Accessibility verified August 2, 2007.
18. American College of Physicians. Residency database search. http://www.acponline.org/residency/index.html?idxt. Accessed April 20, 2007.
19. American Medical Association. FREIDA online specialty statistics training statistics information. http: //www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/spcstsc/0,1238, 140,00.html. Accessed April 20, 2007.
20. American Medical Association. State-level data for accredited graduate medical education programs in the US: aggregate statistics on all resident physicians actively enrolled in graduate medical education during 2005-2006. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3991.html#4. Accessed April 20, 2007.
21. Looney SW, Grady CS, Steiner RP. An update on biostatistics requirements in U.S. medical schools. Acad Med. 1998;73(1):92-94.
22. Beasley BW, Woolley DC. Evidence-based medicine knowledge, attitudes, and skills of community faculty. J Gen Intern Med. 2002;17(8):632-639.
23. Godwin M, Seguin R. Critical appraisal skills of family physicians in Ontario, Canada. BMC Med Educ. 2003;3:10.
24. Adily A, Westbrook J, Coiera E, Ward J. Use of on-line evidence databases by Australian public health practitioners. Med Inform Internet Med. 2004;29(2):127-136.
25. Estellat C, Faisy C, Colombet I, Chatellier G, Burnand B, Durieux P. French academic physicians had a poor knowledge of terms used in clinical epidemiology. J Clin Epidemiol. 2006;59(9):1009-1014.
26. Ambrosius WT, Manatunga AK. Intensive short courses in biostatistics for fellows and physicians. Stat Med. 2002;21(18):2739-2756.
27. Cheatham ML. A structured curriculum for improved resident education in statistics. Am Surg. 2000;66(6):585-588.
28. Coomarasamy A, Khan KS. What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? a systematic review. BMJ. 2004;329(7473):1017.
29. Ebbert JO, Montori VM, Schultz HJ. The journal club in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review. Med Teach. 2001;23(5):455-461.
30. Taylor R, Reeves B, Ewings P, Binns S, Keast J, Mears R. A systematic review of the effectiveness of critical appraisal skills training for clinicians. Med Educ. 2000;34(2):120-125.
31. Parkes J, Hyde C, Deeks J, Milne R. Teaching critical appraisal skills in health care settings. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2001;(3):CD001270.
32. Norman GR, Shannon SI. Effectiveness of instruction in critical appraisal (evidence-based medicine) skills: a critical appraisal. CMAJ. 1998;158(2):177-181.
33. Khan KS, Coomarasamy A. A hierarchy of effective teaching and learning to acquire competence in evidenced-based medicine. BMC Med Educ. 2006;6:59.
34. Rogers LF. The "win-win" of research. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1999;172(4):877.
35. ACP Journal Club. Evidence-based medicine for better patient care. http://www.acpjc.org/?hp. Accessed November 5, 2006.
36. Wyer PC, Keitz S, Hatala R, et al. Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine: introduction to the series. CMAJ. 2004;171(4):347-348.
37. Windish DM, Diener-West M. A clinicianeducator's roadmap to choosing and interpreting statistical tests. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21(6):656-660.