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Lesson plan for Hands-on sessions for EBM PEARLS 2009

Formulating a answerable clinical question regarding a patient you have seen during the ICA and carry out an on-line search to find reasonable evidence to answer the unique patient question

Duration & Format:

Two, two-hour predominantly hands-on sessions

Prerequisites:

The Clinical epidemiology/ EBM work done during the first two years in the USydMP.

Therefore it is assumed that students are familiar / competent in the following: 
a)What is EBM and why it is important
b)Different types of epidemiological studies and the levels of evidence
c)Critical Appraisal
d)Doing a basic PubMed/Ovid/Cochrane searches

Objectives:

At the end of the two hands-on sessions you will be able to:

a)Define EBM and give five reasons why it is important to practicing clinicians

b)Formulate a well-built clinical question in PICO format, from a patients’ problem seen during the ICA 

c)Describe the 5S model for evidence based practice for information resources strategy in doing an EBM searches

d)Demonstrate a focused PubMed search using ‘Clinical Queries’ in less than 10 minutes

e)Demonstrate an OVID search using a choice  of multiple databases, within 15 minutes

f)List at least five different pre-appraised evidence resources on the web, that are reliable and up to date for a generalist clinician stating whether it is free or by subscription

g)Demonstrate the use of general search engines (Google, Google Scholar /Scirus) specially in looking up medical information 

h)List and explain five ways of how EBM targets the individual patient 

i)Do a 15 minute power point presentation about a patient you saw during your ICA  
 

This lesson would need:

a) Computers with an Internet connection (one for each student)
b) Multimedia projector
c) White board


Kumara Mendis



SNJKM- 2/4/2009 12:40 AM