Teaching evidence-based medicine to undergraduate medical students: A course integrating ethics audit management and clinical epidemiology
Date
2006
Authors
Rhodes, Martin
Ashcroft, Richard
Atun, Rifat A.
Freeman, George K.
Jamrozik, Konrad
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Citation
Medical Teacher, 2006; 28 (4):313-317
Statement of Responsibility
Martin Rhodes, Richard Ashcroft, Rifat A. Atun, George K. Freeman and Konrad Jamrozik
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Abstract
A six-week full time course for third-year undergraduate medical students at Imperial College uniquely links evidence-based medicine (EBM) with ethics and the management of change in health services. It is mounted jointly by the Medical and Business Schools and features an experiential approach. Small teams of students use a problem-based strategy to address practical issues identified from a range of clinical placements in primary and secondary care settings. The majority of these junior clinical students achieve important objectives for learning about teamwork, critical appraisal, applied ethics and health care organisations. Their work often influences the care received by patients in the host clinical units. We discuss the strengths of the course in relation to other accounts of programmes in EBM. We give examples of recurring experiences from successive cohorts and discuss assessment issues and how our multi-phasic evaluation informs evolution of the course and the potential for future developments.
School/Discipline
School of Population Health and Clinical Practice