Teaching Evidence Based Health Care online or face to face

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Teaching Evidence Based Health Care online
or face to face?

• Dr Dragan Ilic
• Monash Institute of Health Services Research
• Monash University

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MBBS at Monash University

• Monash Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery
  (MBBS) is a five year undergraduate course
• 2007 Undergraduate in Australia and Monash
  Malaysia
• 2008 Four year Graduate course at Gippsland

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MBBS course themes

• Personal and professional development
• Society, population, health and illness
• Evidence Based Clinical Practice (EBCP)
• Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice
• Clinical skills

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Course structure
Year 1
On campus
Year 2
Year 3
Year 3
Year long clinical placement
Year 4
Year 4
Clinical rotations
Year 5
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Brushing up on our geography
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Brushing up on our geography
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Year 3 outline

• 10 x 2 hour face to face tutorials
• Introduction
• Hands on database searching
• Formative evaluation
• Therapy, harm, diagnosis, prognosis and
  systematic reviews

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Year 4 outline

• Two semester online tutorials
• 4 x 4 week modules per semester
• Evidence into policy and practice
• Workshops

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Student evaluation

• Quantitative survey of 3rd year ? 4th year
  students
• 136/235 (58) 3rd year
• 127/248 (51) 4th year
• Qualitative analysis of 4th year student
  discussions

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Evaluation
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Evaluation
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Evaluation
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Qualitative feedback
Facilitators
Barriers
Consolidation
Workload (reading articles)
Applicability of EBCP in practice
Flexibility/self directed
Detached
Workshop
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Conclusions

• Introduction to EBCP in clinical setting
• Pre-clinical years are lost
• Online delivery
• Workshops
• Interactive nature of materials
• Clinical applicability
• Earlier exposure to online environment

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Thank you

• Dr Dragan Ilic
• Monash Institute of Health Services Research
• Monash University
• Australia
• Email dragan.ilic_at_med.monash.edu.au