Tutorial on reading a research article.
To help students learn where to find key information in a research article.
Online reading quizzes prior to class discussion.
To ensure that students have completed the readings prior to class.
To decrease the amount of in-class time spent on first exposure to concepts in readings.
To increase student independence in locating key information in research articles.
Review of assigned readings based on quiz performance.
To ensure that students fully understand the evidence.
Generation of search terms used to find the assigned readings.
To teach students which search terms are useful.
To have students evaluate whether the instructor has presented a biased view of a particular topic.
To demonstrate the value of evidence-based practice by having students summarize prevailing views at different points in time. (For example, if it were 1990, would you have evidence about this topic? How does it differ from the evidence we have now?)
Clinical case application.
To ensure that students understand evidence well enough to apply it to a case that is highly similar to the research article cases.
