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John W W Cyrus1, David C Duggar, Deidra Woodson
1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0582, USA. cyrusjw@vcu.edu
Abstract:
The Fourth-year Academic Clinical Training and Teaching Selective (FACTTS) is a course taught by medical and library faculty on the practice of evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal of the medical literature. This study assesses the impact of the course on students' understanding of the subject matter by examining three years of pre- and post-test data and addresses whether the number of sessions in the course affects the knowledge gained by the students. The data show an improvement in the students' understanding of course material, but no benefit was found in having two versus three sessions.
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