IJME - Practice-based learning: an appropriate means to acquire the attitude and skills for evidence-based medicine

Table 1. Outline of the practice-based and regular EBM-course

Step	Experimental group: practice-based EBM- course	Step	Control group: non-practice-based, regular EBM- course
Step 1	Formulating a foreground question	Step 1	Formulating a foreground question
Contact moment 1	1a. Transfer meeting at a clinical unit; 1b. Selection of patient cases with clinical questions in collaboration with a clinician; 1c. Formulation of foreground question and search strategy;	Class meeting 1	1a. Opening lecture; 1b. Selection of case from theoretical examples; 1c. Formulation of foreground question and search strategy;
Step 2	Searching in the literature	Step 2	Searching in the literature
	2a. Searching in different databases (e.g. Google, PubMed, UpToDate, Cochrane); 2b. Selection of articles & critical appraisal;		2a. Searching in different databases (e.g. Google, PubMed, UpToDate, Cochrane); 2b. Selection of articles & critical appraisal;
Step 3	Critical appraisal of the literature	Step 3	Critical appraisal of the literature
Contact moment 2	3a. Feedback and discussion on the first results with a clinician; 3b. Adjustments of results and/or selection of articles;	Class meeting 2	3a. Feedback and discussion on the first results with a teacher; 3b. Adjustments of results and/or selection of articles;
Step 4	Presentation and formulating an answer	Step 4	Presentation and formulating an answer
Contact moment 3	4a. Report and presentation of the results followed by discussion, feedback and reflection with clinical unit and clinician.	Class meeting 3	4a. Report and presentation of the results followed by discussion, feedback and reflection in the classroom.

Int J Med Educ. 2020; 11:140-145; doi: 10.5116/ijme.5ee0.ab48