title: Making generic tutorials content specific: recycling evidence-based practice (EBP) tutorials for two disciplines.
abstract: Librarians at the Boston University Medical Center constructed two interactive online tutorials, "Introduction to EBM" and "Formulating a Clinical Question (PICO)," for a Family Medicine Clerkship and then quickly repurposed the existing tutorials to support an Evidence-based Dentistry course. Adobe's ColdFusion software was used to populate the tutorials with course-specific content based on the URL used to enter each tutorial, and a MySQL database was used to collect student input. Student responses were viewable immediately by course faculty on a password-protected Web site. The tutorials ensured that all students received the same baseline training and allowed librarians to tailor a subsequent library skills workshop to student tutorial answers. The tutorials were well-received by the medical and dental schools and have been added to mandatory first-year Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence-based Dentistry (EBD) courses, meaning that every medical and dental student at BUMC will be expected to complete these tutorials.
authors.affiliation: San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA. keven.jeffery@sdsu.edu
authors.forename: Keven M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Jeffery
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maggio
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blanchard
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000592:standards*; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D014584:User-Computer Interface