Teaching Information Mastery: Creating Informed Consumers of Medical Information
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Teaching information mastery: creating informed consumers of medical information.
BACKGROUND The concepts of evidence-based medicine are permeating all specialties, including family practice. This article describes a curriculum to teach residents the principles and practices of information mastery, a derivation of evidence-based medicine that is more relevant to family physicians. METHODS The curriculum is a 2-year longitudinal experience consisting mainly of didactic pres...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.12.6.444