Training the trainer

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Training the trainer
How to plan a Finding the evidence workshop

• Nordic Baltic EAHIL Workshop
• June 26, Oslo
• Irene Wiik Lena Nordheim
• Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social
  Affairs

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Aims and objectives

• Aim
• To help participants improve their ability to
  organise and carry out a finding the evidence
  workshop
• Objectives
• to be aware of important issues in planning a
  successful workshop
• to be aware of different teaching methods
• to share and learn from the experience of other
  participants

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• This is NOT
• a workshop on how to
• find the evidence, but
• how to train others to
• find the evidence

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Workshop planning

• Practical issues
• Programme issues
• Evaluation issues
• Equipment
• Training materials
• On the day...

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Workshop planning - example

• You have been asked to organise a
• Pubmed course at your local hospital.
• You have been told that there will be a
• group of 15 participants. The course is set
• for 3 and a half hours.

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Questions - example

• Who?
• Nurses and doctors
• Level of knowledge
• Little or no experience in searching PubMed
• Where?
• The hospital librarys PC-lab
• When?
• In two weeks
• Resources
• 10 computers with Internet access
• Video projector

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Aims and objectives - example

• Aims
• To help participants improve their skills in
  searching PubMed
• Objectives
• To know the basics about Pubmed coverage and
  contents
• To know the difference between free text and MeSH
  searching
• Know how and when to use the Clinical
  Queries-function
• To be able to use MeSH
• Printing and saving references

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Programme - example

• 09.00 Introduction
• 09.10 Question formulation
• 09.30 Basic search techniques
• 10.30 Coffee break
• 11.00 MeSh searching
• 12.15 Summary

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Teaching methods

• Classroom approach
• Interactive
• Small groups
• Intermediary tasks
• Hands-on
• A mix of both approaches

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Tips and tricks

• Ice-breakers
• Power-point slides cartoons, animations etc.
• Scenarios
• Play and playthings
• Intermediary tasks

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Ice-breaker

• Example
• Think about a situation where you needed to
  search for information in order to do a proper
  job. Describe this to your neighbour and tell
  him/her what sources you used

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Scenarios
Ole is a young public health physician who has
just started to practise medicine. He has a lot
of patients who smoke. He is not sure whether
there is any point in advising them to stop
smoking. He asks a colleague who says that he
does not want to talk about smoking with his
patients because he thinks it can ruin the
positive doctor-patient relationship he feels he
has with his patients. Ole is aware of this
discussion and that some practitioners still
choose not to raise smoking cessation as an
issue. He wants to know what is the effectiveness
of advice from physicians in promoting smoking
cessation.
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Who wants to be a millionaire?
Play and playthings
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NOK 1000
What does MeSH mean?
B) Medical Subject Headings?
A) Medical Stupid Headings
D) Medical Search Headings
C) Medical Surgery Headings
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NOK 20 000
Which database provides Clinical Queries?
B) Best Evidence
A) Pubmed
C) Ovid Medline
D) Cochrane Library
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Colourline is a database about colour therapy. It
consists of 15 documents. You want to find
documents about A) red AND blue B) red OR
blue C) red NOT blue REMEMBER
The terms occur in the same document or in
separate documents
The one term occurs alone in the document, the
other is absent
The terms occur in the same document
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Intermediary tasks

• See hand-outs!!

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Sharing training tips and resources

• Examples from England
• National Electronic Library for Health
• http//www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/info_skills.asp
• http//www.nelh.nhs.uk/dlnet/
• Cochrane Library
• http//www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/cochlib.htm
• How can you share your resources and tips with
  others?

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NeLH Digital Libraries Net
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NeLH Information skills training
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Cochrane Library