title: An online evidence based medicine exercise prompts reflection in third year medical students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Reflective practice is a desirable trait in physicians, yet there is little information about how it is taught to or learned by medical students. The purpose of this study was to determine whether an online Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) exercise with a face-to-face debriefing session would prompt third year medical students to reflect on their current skills and lead them to further reflection on clinical decision making in the future.
  
  
  METHODS
  All third year medical students at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine who completed their pediatrics clerkship between 7/1/09 and 2/11/11 were required to complete the EBM exercise. Following completion each student received a personal report (Learning Profile) of their responses and attended a one hour large group debriefing session. Student responses to a survey following the debriefing sessions were analyzed using a post-test survey design with a single experimental cohort.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ninety-five percent of students completing the debriefing survey indicated that the debriefing session helped them better understand their learning profiles; 68% stated that their profiles allowed them to evaluate themselves and their decisions. Sixty-three percent noted that participating in the exercise and the debrief would lead them to either learn more about EBM and use EBM more in the future or reflect more on their own decision making.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The EBM exercise was a successful way to introduce the concept of reflective practice to third year medical students, and the graphic Learning Profiles were effective instigators of discussion and reflection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, 21201 Baltimore, MD, USA. llewin@peds.umaryland.edu.
authors.forename: Linda Orkin
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Lewin
authors.forename: Nancy J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raczek
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carraccio
authors.forename: Patricia J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hicks
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*
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