Abstract
With the increasing importance of evidence-based medicine in psychiatry, the recent inclusion of a critical analysis paper in the MRCPsych Part II Examination and the current emphasis on clinical governance, it is now necessary for all psychiatrists to have some degree of training in evidence-based practices.
Highlights
With the increasing importance of evidence-based medicine in psychiatry, the recent inclusion of a critical analysis paper in the MRCPsych Part II Examination and the current emphasis on clinical governance, it is necessary for all psychiatrists to have some degree of training in evidence-based practices
We aimed to identify how many teaching centres have incorporated a regular journal club that takes the format of evidence-based/critical analysis style presentations into their academic programme
Our questionnaire enquired about various aspects of the local academic programme; in particular whether this included evidence-based style journal clubs which were defined as meaning that the presenter should be involved in the four key elements of evidence-based practice (Sackett et al, 1997): (a) question-setting; (b) literature searching; (c) selecting the relevant articles; (d) structured critical appraisal
Summary
With the increasing importance of evidence-based medicine in psychiatry, the recent inclusion of a critical analysis paper in the MRCPsych Part II Examination and the current emphasis on clinical governance, it is necessary for all psychiatrists to have some degree of training in evidence-based practices. We aimed to identify how many teaching centres have incorporated a regular journal club that takes the format of evidence-based/critical analysis style presentations into their academic programme. We conducted a cross-sectional survey using a postal questionnaire in October 1999. This questionnaire was sent to all recognised college tutors of psychiatric training rotations in the UK and Ireland as well as to those of related overseas schemes by the college. Our questionnaire enquired about various aspects of the local academic programme; in particular whether this included evidence-based style journal clubs which were defined as meaning that the presenter should be involved in the four key elements of evidence-based practice (Sackett et al, 1997):. Data from replies were entered into an SPSS database and results were analysed using simple non-parametric cross-tabulations
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