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Background: evidence-based medicine (EBM) aims to provide people with choices about the most effective care based on the best available research evidence.
Objectives: earlier exposure to EBM may help teenagers to have better ability to judge fraud news and inspire their interest in learning medicine.
Methods: we held a four-day, Youth EBM camp in summer 2018. On the first day, we arranged for young students to visit surgical theatres. Inspired by the lecturer, the participants generated clinical questions, and were taught to search for and appraise medical literature. A systematic review was completed with the assistance of medical students who had just finished a semester of the EBM course. The results of systematic reviews were presented at the 2018 Taiwan EBM annual conference. We evaluated the efficacy of the Youth EBM camp using a participant questionnaire. We assessed general satisfaction using a five-item Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).
Results: evaluation surveys were completed by 29 high school students. The majority of respondents agreed that participating Youth EBM camp can improve comprehension of medical researches (mean ± standard deviations, 4.31 ± 0.71), critical appraisal skills (4.34 ± 0.67), and encourage interest in learning medicine (4.28 ± 0.80). Moreover, respondents replied that the camp help them to clarify their interest in being a medical doctor.
Conclusions: implementing Youth EBM camp was appreciated by most of the participants and may improve their ability to justify health information, promote logical thinking, and can provide teenagers with an opportunity to think about whether to study medicine.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: teenagers usually feel confused when applying for universities, therefore earlier exposure to EBM training helps the medical system to enrol more decent students in the future.
Objectives: earlier exposure to EBM may help teenagers to have better ability to judge fraud news and inspire their interest in learning medicine.
Methods: we held a four-day, Youth EBM camp in summer 2018. On the first day, we arranged for young students to visit surgical theatres. Inspired by the lecturer, the participants generated clinical questions, and were taught to search for and appraise medical literature. A systematic review was completed with the assistance of medical students who had just finished a semester of the EBM course. The results of systematic reviews were presented at the 2018 Taiwan EBM annual conference. We evaluated the efficacy of the Youth EBM camp using a participant questionnaire. We assessed general satisfaction using a five-item Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).
Results: evaluation surveys were completed by 29 high school students. The majority of respondents agreed that participating Youth EBM camp can improve comprehension of medical researches (mean ± standard deviations, 4.31 ± 0.71), critical appraisal skills (4.34 ± 0.67), and encourage interest in learning medicine (4.28 ± 0.80). Moreover, respondents replied that the camp help them to clarify their interest in being a medical doctor.
Conclusions: implementing Youth EBM camp was appreciated by most of the participants and may improve their ability to justify health information, promote logical thinking, and can provide teenagers with an opportunity to think about whether to study medicine.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: teenagers usually feel confused when applying for universities, therefore earlier exposure to EBM training helps the medical system to enrol more decent students in the future.
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