A randomised controlled trial of a blended learning education intervention for teaching evidence-based medicine Approaches to teaching and learning

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ilic, Dragan ^a   Nordin, Rusli Bin ^b   Glasziou, Paul ^c   Tilson, Julie K ^d   Villanueva, Elmer ^e  

^a The Alfred Centre   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Blended learning; Evidence based medicine; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925599017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-015-0321-6     Document Type: Article

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