as described in the first part of this article, evidence based medicine (ebm) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. in this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diagnostic studies) and applying ...

shape how we think. Regional definitions color the way we understand rural America, rural change, and rural prospects. Regional definitions trigger financial flows and program eligibility. At issue is not whether to opt into the region idea. We readily create regions to suit the human purposes of discovering order, appraising conditions, exercising control, prescribing change, and expressing id...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate psychometric properties of the instrument, Resuscitation Self-Efficacy Scale for nurses. METHODS This was a methodological study for instrument development and psychometric testing. The initial item pool derived from literature review and experts resulted in 30 items linked to resuscitation self-efficacy. A convenience sample of 50...

BACKGROUND In this brief report, we describe two ways in which we assessed the Scholar CanMEDS role using a method to measure residents' ability to complete a critical appraisal. These were incorporated into a modified OSCE format where two stations consisted of 1) critically appraising an article and 2) critiquing an abstract. METHOD Residents were invited to participate in the CanMEDS In-Tr...