Teaching evidence-based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years: A randomized controlled trial

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 190-196

  Ilic, Dragan ^a   Tepper, Katrina ^a   Misso, Marie ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Jean Hailes for Women's Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865833381     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.3.009     Document Type: Article

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