Abstract:
A two-day workshop on medical literature searching was recently conducted by the Department of Medical Education, Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad. Each workshop had two sessions of 2 hours in an interactive, hands-on, step-by-step tutorials format with written handouts and flash animated videos. The video tutorials guide about the mouse movements was shown onscreen, so that one could know which buttons/links to click during search. The participants were assessed using multiple-choicequestions (MCQ). Understanding of search techniques was identified by these questions. The mean score improved from the pre-workshop mean of 1.9 correct answers out of 5 questions to post-workshop mean of 3.4 correct answers (2-tailed paired t-test p=0.00013). About 86% of participants rated workshop as “Good” or above. Recommendations were to increase practice time, and one-to-one availability of computers.
Page(s):
195-196
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Year: 2008