Toward an evidence-based model for chiropractic education and practice

Research in Chiropractic Education: An Update

“…48 Although not a panacea, evidence-based education provides a set of principles and practices that can alter the manner in which people think about education. 46 Delaney and Fernandez 49 described the need for evidence-based skills such as problem defining, literature searching, and applying original research in chiropractic education. They stressed the importance of teaching these skills to students-skills that should be modeled by faculty and that include sessions devoted to critical appraisal, online literature searching, and the ability to use interactive casebased software.…”

Applying Evidence-Based Health Care to Musculoskeletal Patients as an Educational Strategy for Chiropractic Interns (A One-Group Pretest-Posttest Study)

“…11 The question addressed in this study is: In teaching evidence-based health care to chiropractic interns, does the application of EBHC skills (ie, developing patient-centered clinical questions, on-line literature searching, appraisal of studies) to actual clinical patients result in improved EBHC skills and attitudes? This study was modeled, in part, after a previous study on internal medicine residents by Green and Ellis.…”

“…An important goal of clinical chiropractic education should be to teach these specific skills to doctors. 11 The skills and attitudes to adopt an evidence-based approach should now be an essential part of the curriculum in educating and training chiropractors. 12 Johnson and Green 13 reviewed the history of chiropractic education and concluded that the monocausal, authoritarian philosophy historically prevalent in the profession has hampered substantial growth in critical thinking.…”

Development and psychometric evaluation of an information literacy self-efficacy survey and an information literacy knowledge test*

“…2 Establishing chiropractic as an evidence-based health care profession necessarily requires evidence-based education (EBE); that is, chiropractic colleges and universities must implement curricula that provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to be evidence-based practitioners.…”