Training “Modern aspects of evidence-based medicine”
On April 11- 13, 2016 the Department of Evidence-based medicine held a training seminar: “Modern aspects of evidence-based medicine”. This seminar was organized to implement the achievements of modern science and public health based on the principles of evidence-based medicine in educational programs, clinical protocols monitoring, increasing potential of the teaching staff of SKSPhA and in accordance with the measures on the «Road map» and the project realization “Modernization of medical education” for 2016-2019 of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The training was conducted for the teaching staff of clinical departments, 26 people have been trained. The trainers were K.Y. Akhmadiyeva, Candidate of Medical Sciences; L.T. Kasayeva, Candidate of Medical Sciences; D.M. Mamytova, a specialist of medialibrary. The training seminar took place in computer-information and testing center of SKSPhA (room № 225).
The training took place in an interactive manner with the use of modern multimedia technologies and Internet. The training format included working in small groups, discussions with the use of teaching materials, presentations. The training was focused on the following problems: the definition, terminology and stages of Evidence – based medicine; Evidence – based medicine competences for clinicians, PhD, teachers; a research design, critical evaluation of research, articles; a search in medical databases; clinical guidelines, clinical protocols; implementation and its monitoring in educational process; interdepartmental interaction in implementing the principles of Evidence-based medicine in educational process.
The information obtained during these lectures was consolidated by practical work on information search in Internet and the quality assessment of the proposed scientific medical publications. Posing clinical questions on PICO method, quality analysis of scientific articles, clinical guidelines on AGREE questionnaire, testing on the proposed material in MCQ test format at the end of this seminar.
To evaluate the effectiveness of this training seminar there was conducted a questionnaire of the teaching staff at the beginning and at the end of the seminar. The final evaluation of the training showed a significant knowledge increasing during this seminar. The participants were awarded certificates.
Questionnaire analysis of the seminar at the Department of Evidence – based medicine
The teaching staff, April 2016:
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№ p/p |
Question: |
Answer variant |
% |
|
1 |
Do you know the concept “Evidence-based medicine”? |
Very well |
12% |
|
Yes |
73% |
||
|
No |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
15% |
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|
2 |
Do you consider the knowledge in Evidence-based medicine to be useful? |
Very useful |
19% |
|
Useful |
70% |
||
|
Not very useful |
8% |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
3% |
||
|
3 |
How can you evaluate the need of using clinical protocols based on EBM principles (specify evaluation level)? |
High |
35% |
|
Middle |
42% |
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|
Low |
8% |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
3% |
||
|
4 |
Do you use Internet as a medical information source? |
Often |
54% |
|
Seldom |
46% |
||
|
Not use |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
||
|
5 |
When deciding whether you are relying on: |
%
|
absolute number |
|
|
Your own experience |
50% |
100% |
|
Your colleagues’ opinion |
35% |
100% |
|
|
Training literature |
58% |
100% |
|
|
Magazines |
27% |
100% |
|
|
Clinical protocols |
35% |
100% |
|
|
Standards of medical care |
31% |
100% |
|
|
Electronic database, if yes, specify:
|
% |
absolute number |
|
|
|
The number of database specified |
9% |
100% |
|
|
Pubmed |
3% |
|
|
|
Web of science |
3% |
|
|
|
Republican Center of Public Health Development (RCPHD) |
3% |
|
|
6 |
Do you consider the seminar theme “Modern aspects of Evidence-based medicine” to be actual? |
Very actual |
66% |
|
Not very actual |
31% |
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|
Not actual |
- |
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Don’t know/No answer |
3% |
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№ p/p |
Question: |
Answer variant |
% |
|
1 |
Do you know the concept “Evidence-based medicine”? |
Very well |
35% |
|
Yes |
65% |
||
|
No |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
||
|
2 |
Do you consider the knowledge in Evidence-based medicine to be useful? |
Very useful |
62% |
|
Useful |
38% |
||
|
Not very useful |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
||
|
3 |
How can you evaluate the need of using clinical protocols based on EBM principles (specify evaluation level)? |
High |
77% |
|
Middle |
20% |
||
|
Low |
|
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
3% |
||
|
4 |
Do you use Internet as a medical information source? |
Often |
85% |
|
Seldom |
15% |
||
|
Not use |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
||
|
5 |
When deciding whether you are relying on: |
%
|
absolute number |
|
|
Your own experience |
35% |
100% |
|
Your colleagues’ opinion |
27% |
100% |
|
|
Training literature |
50% |
100% |
|
|
Magazines |
54% |
100% |
|
|
Clinical protocols |
50% |
100% |
|
|
Standards of medical care |
27% |
100% |
|
|
Electronic database, if yes, specify:
|
% |
absolute number |
|
|
|
The number of database specified |
100% |
100% |
|
|
Pubmed/Medline |
100% |
|
|
|
Cochrane library |
15% |
|
|
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Web of science |
27% |
|
|
|
EMASE |
15% |
|
|
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BMJ/British medical journal |
3% |
|
|
|
Google, RCPHD |
8% |
|
|
6 |
Do you consider the seminar theme “Modern aspects of Evidence-based medicine” to be actual? |
Very actual |
100% |
|
Not very actual |
- |
||
|
Not actual |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
||
|
7 |
How was your idea of Evidence-based medicine broadened? |
Sufficiently |
100% |
|
Not sufficiently |
- |
||
|
Too sufficiently |
- |
||
|
Don’t know/No answer |
- |
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