2018 Volume 2 Article ID: 2017-021
Recently, the teaching of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) has become essential in not only medical education but also pharmacy education. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a mixed lecture and exercise teaching method for pharmacy students. The EBM class was designed in an eight-week course for third year pharmacy students to learn the methods of formulating answerable clinical questions, searching the literature, providing critical appraisals of the clinical literature, and integrating evidence to patients. To assess the effectiveness of the EBM class in improving knowledge and skills, a comparison method of pre- and post-intervention was used. In addition, we performed a questionnaire survey and evaluated student’s consciousness after EBM class. The mean scores on the post-test significantly improved from 1.72 ± 1.89 to 11.38 ± 4.16 on a 19-point rating scale (p < 0.001). Although students were able to acquire knowledge about EBM, their ability to practice EBM utilizing evidence were not evaluated suitably. Our results suggested that changing learning methods and evaluation method of EBM class would be necessary.
