Medical students' attitudes on and experiences with evidence-based medicine: A qualitative study

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 779-785

  Ghojazadeh, Morteza ^a   Hajebrahimi, Sakineh ^b   Azami Aghdash, Saber ^c   Pournaghi Azar, Fatemeh ^a   Keshavarz, Majid ^b   Naghavi Behzad, Mohammad ^c   Hazrati, Hakimeh ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

attitudes; evidence based medicine; experiences; medical students; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL THINKING; CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF ESTEEM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEACHER; TEAMWORK; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; IRAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAN; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923038517     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12191     Document Type: Article

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