Hana S Fukuto, Gloria I Viboud
Development of an open access, virtual bioinformatics lab for students in medical laboratory sciences
American journal of clinical pathology
2016 german network evidencebased medicine revised basic curriculum competences evidencebased medicine curriculumbased training programme physicians medical students enhance competences evidencebased decisionmaking developed training programme planned basis problembased learning aim qualitative pilot study explore feasibility acceptability training programme hypotheses concerning influence critical health literacy attitude toward evidencebased decisionmaking generated participating healthcare professionals received structured training blended learning format data collection conducted training sessions lessons observed protocolled working results documented two focus group interviews conducted training blocks focus acceptability feasibility training programme interview transcripts protocols analysed using qualitative content analysis according mayring data saturation intended iterative process testing analysing revising training programme addition critical health literacy assessed using validated critical health competence test levels competence calculated measure effect training critical health competences two pilot courses 29 physicians healthcare professionals conducted january march 2019 overall training programme proved feasible participants rated comprehensibility learning modules high however practical exercises eg role plays shared decisionmaking revealed relevant subjects insufficiently understood eg difference benefits harms diagnostic test test accuracy interactive instructional design appreciated participants appraised work tasks comprehensible also challenging requested theoretical introduction statistical terms preparation work tasks programme revised iteratively according results critical health competences increased significantly training mean values sd levels competence 57121 8287 training 67190 5138 training p00001 levels competence range 0 1000 training programme feasible well accepted participants established continuing medical education opportunity practitioners evaluation randomised controlled trial recommended furthermore training easily adapted interprofessional training concept longterm implementation needed