How Does Pretesting for PubMed Knowledge Spark Student Learning?

Abromitis, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/02763869.2018.1514900

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“…Furthermore, the dental student's attitude towards mobile learning was shown to be positive in another report [17]. In contrast, a previous study by Abromitis [18] indicated that predoctoral dental students overestimated their abilities regarding biomedical database research. In accordance to these reports, it could be though that both medical and dental students have a good understanding of ICTs, but they might possibly develop different skills related to their own specialty and previous education.…”

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The Understanding of Medical Informatics among Dental and Medical Students

Allabun

2022

BioMed Research International

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Background. Current medical care deeply relies on informatics during all stages of patient care, which is significantly enhanced due to its use. The healthcare professional’s formation in medical informatics results crucial for their everyday practice. However, healthcare study programs not always provide education about the use of this wide variety of systems, and young professionals find that they need to learn about it over the experience. The aim of this study was to assess the understanding of medical and dental students regarding medical informatics and ICTs. Materials and Methods. A questionnaire was produced with 3 sections and a total of 24 questions. Students replied to the survey before and after taking the medical informatics course. Results. A total of 719 students from second year of medical and dental school were recruited for the study between the period of September of 2017-May 2018, September 2018-May 2019, September 2019-May 2020, and September 2020-May 2021. Medical and dental students showed a good level of understanding regarding medical informatics, as well as a good perception of the relevance of ICT learning for the professional practice. Course attendance increased the percentage of students that felt confident of their knowledge about medical informatics. However, most students felt that little or no medical informatics education was lectured at their schools and that the University should adapt the academic program to include it. After taking the course, the student’s perception on this matter was improved. Conclusion. Medical and dental students find medical informatics learning useful for their future professional practice and feel inclined to use it. However, they feel that Universities need to adapt their programs in order to include medical education courses and trainings; partly because they are not completely aware of the use of ICTs that already are established in their courses.

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The Understanding of Medical Informatics among Dental and Medical Students

Allabun

2022

BioMed Research International

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“…To measure the impact of the embedded librarian on students’ information-seeking skills, the nursing librarian collaborated with the library's lead instruction librarian to develop an assessment instrument to be administered as a pre- and post-test. As a common assessment method, it has the advantage of more effectively showing an increase or decrease in knowledge [ 21 ]. Questions were adapted from a pre-existing internal instrument for the nursing research class and included queries about students’ skills in using health-related databases, finding nursing evidence, and evaluating research articles.…”

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Impact of embedded librarianship on undergraduate nursing students’ information skills

Franzen

Sharkey

2021

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Background: One-shot library sessions have numerous drawbacks; most notably, they rarely have a long-term impact on students' research behavior or skill sets. Library literature notes that when students interact with an embedded librarian, their skills improve. While close partnerships with subject faculty are important, librarians must also assess students’ skill sets to determine the impact of these teaching efforts.Case presentation: During the course, the embedded librarian used various activities and assignments to teach information-seeking skills, with the expected outcome of increased skill sets. This IRB-approved research project focused on measuring and assessing students’ information-seeking abilities before and after interacting with the embedded nursing librarian. Changes in students' information fluency skills were measured using pre- and post-tests.Conclusions:The study results provide evidence of the benefits of the embedded librarianship model. Continued measurement of students’ skills acquisition is important to enable librarians and library administrators to show the positive impacts the library has on student learning and success.

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“…Therefore, COVID-19 evidenced that health students have difficulties in database manuscript searches because, in order to develop well-founded research and searches for quality articles, it is important for the researcher to develop forms and strategies of literature research appropriate to his/her problem since, as mentioned in the literature, without an adequate search methodology, the certainty of retrieving quality information that responds to the needs of the researcher may be harmed [6]. In order to ensure that bibliographic research is carried out successfully, search strategies must be followed with the objective of improving the dynamics of information retrieval, and, among the means used to guarantee effective results, researchers use specialized scientific databases such as PubMed [7].…”

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Digital Evaluation of Undergraduates’ Knowledge about Scientific Research in Databases during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Background: COVID-19 pandemic times forced health education to go online, and, due to this necessity, long-term difficulties in education such as bibliographic search in databases like PubMed might have worsened even when platforms such as PubMed provide helping mechanisms to the user. These difficulties or even complete lack of knowledge are, unfortunately, not well documented in the literature. Therefore, this study aimed to describe doubts, lack of knowledge and questions of researchers regarding bibliographic research in PubMed as well as to solve all of those doubts by developing a didactic e-book in relation to bibliographic research in PubMed. Methods: This cross-sectional and populational-based study was conducted between January and April 2021. In northern Brazil, a total of 105 dentistry undergraduate students (DUS) received an anonymous digital form (Google® Forms Platform) using a non-probabilistic “snowball” sampling technique. The digital form was composed of four blocks of dichotomous and multiple-choice questions. After signing the informed consent term, the DUS were divided into three groups according to their period/semester in the dentistry program during the study time (G1: 1st period/semester; G2: 5th period/semester and G3: 10th period/semester). A total of 25 questions referring to demographic, educational and knowledge data about how to do scientific research and how to use bibliographic search in PubMed were asked, and all data were presented as descriptive percentages and then analyzed using the Chi square and G tests. Results: From 105 (100%), G1 had 29/105 (27.6%); G2 had 37/105 (35.2%); G3 had 39/105 (37.2%), the average age was 22.34 years and most participants were female 85/105 (81%). Among our sample, 56/105 (53.4%) had not used any type of search strategy, and 96/105 (91.4%) used database research methods. The main database for literature search used was Scielo 92/105 (87.6%), and 63/105 (60%) had general questions or doubts about bibliographic research. All these data had statistical significance p < 0.0001. Conclusions: The results demonstrate a lack of knowledge and doubts in DUS from three different periods/semesters, and this collected information can help in the formation of didactic material to solve such doubts.

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How Does Pretesting for PubMed Knowledge Spark Student Learning?

Cited by 3 publications

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The Understanding of Medical Informatics among Dental and Medical Students

The Understanding of Medical Informatics among Dental and Medical Students

Impact of embedded librarianship on undergraduate nursing students’ information skills

Digital Evaluation of Undergraduates’ Knowledge about Scientific Research in Databases during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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