| Integrating evidence-based practice and information literacy skills in teaching physical and occupational therapy students. | |
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PMID: 22051125 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Background: To ensure that physical and occupational therapy graduates develop evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies, their academic training must promote EBP skills, such as posing a clinical question and retrieving relevant literature, and the information literacy skills needed to practice these EBP skills. Objective: This article describes the collaborative process and outcome of integrating EBP and information literacy early in a professional physical therapy and occupational therapy programme. Methods: The liaison librarian and a faculty member designed an instructional activity that included a lecture, workshop and assignment that integrated EBP skills and information literacy skills in the first year of the programme. The assignment was designed to assess students' ability to conduct a search independently. Results: The lecture and workshop were successful in their objectives, as 101 of the 104 students received at least 8 out of 10 points on the search assignment. Conclusions: The teaching activities developed for the students in this course appear to have achieved the goal of teaching students the EBP research cycle so that they might begin to emulate it. The collaboration between the faculty member and the librarian was integral to the success of this endeavour. Future work will include the evaluation of students' long-term retention of information literacy objectives. |
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Jill T Boruff; Aliki Thomas |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-08-04 |
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Title: Health information and libraries journal Volume: 28 ISSN: 1471-1842 ISO Abbreviation: Health Info Libr J Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-11-04 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100970070 Medline TA: Health Info Libr J Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 264-72 Citation Subset: H |
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© 2011 The authors. Health Information and Libraries Journal © 2011 Health Libraries Group. |
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Life Sciences Library, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada Occupational Therapy Program, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
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