Family medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
An interactive web-based curriculum on evidence-based medicine: design and effectiveness.
Medical education experts have called for improved training in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the increased use of e-learning technologies in medical education. In response, we developed an interactive, Web-based curriculum on key aspects of EBM in family medicine. ⋯ This study demonstrates that an e-learning approach to educating medical students to effectively search MEDLINE for articles meeting the criteria for evidence-based practice can result in higher-quality literature search strategies, identification of higher-quality evidence, and improved confidence in information retrieval and analysis skills.
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Comparative Study
Saudi Arabia: a proposal for the future of family medicine.
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African American physicians remain underrepresented among all medical school faculty, including faculty in departments of family medicine. This paper reports on a faculty development effort aimed at increasing the number and academic skills of underrepresented minority faculty. ⋯ Faculty development is a potentially effective strategy for increasing diversity in academic primary care. Historically black and Hispanicserving institutions can make contributions to training minority faculty. More-rigorous study could elucidate which program elements have the greatest effect on minority faculty academic career choice, scholarly productivity, and career trajectory and the extent to which these programs could be adapted to majority institutions.