Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine in the Era of Point-of-Care Databases: The Case of the Giant Bladder Stone. Issue 2 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kash, Melissa J.
• Is Part Of: Medical reference services quarterly. Volume 35:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 230
• Page End: 236
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Evidence-based medicine -- pedagogy -- storytelling -- teaching; Medicine -- Information services -- Periodicals; Reference services (Libraries) -- Periodicals; Medical libraries -- Reference services -- Periodicals; 025.527661
• DOI: 10.1080/02763869.2016.1152148
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0276-3869

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In an era where physicians rely on point-of-care databases that provide filtered, pre-appraised, and quickly accessible clinical information by smartphone applications, it is difficult to teach medical students the importance of knowing not only when it is appropriate to search the primary medical literature but also how to do it. This column will describe how librarians at an academic health sciences library use an unusual clinical case to make demonstrations of searching primary medical literature real and meaningful to medical students, and to illustrate vividly the importance of knowing what to do when the answer to a clinical question cannot be found in a point-of-care database.