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Self-directed Training in an Evidence-Based Medicine Experiment

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The paper presents an interactive training and evaluation system desi gned for the evidence-based medicine (EBM) training of Romanian undergraduate students. Fourteen tutorials and a series of supplementary materials were developed and integrated into a virtual self-directed training environment in order to provide the opportunity to learn about and to assess evidence-based medicine knowledge and skills. The interactive web-based approach was efficient and effective in the EBM education of undergraduate students, suggesting that it could be the appropriate method of teaching the evidence-based medicine.

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  1. Department of Foreign Laguages, The Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and, Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    M. M. Marta

  2. Department of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, The Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    S. D. Bolboacă

  3. Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    L. Jäntschi

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  1. Chair of Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence, WSIiZ - University of Technology and Management,, ul. Sucharskiego 2, 35-225, Rzeszów, Poland

    Zdzisław S. Hippe

  2. Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Trojdena 4, 02-109, Warsaw, Poland

    Juliusz L. Kulikowski

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Marta, M.M., Bolboacă, S.D., Jäntschi, L. (2009). Self-directed Training in an Evidence-Based Medicine Experiment. In: Hippe, Z.S., Kulikowski, J.L. (eds) Human-Computer Systems Interaction. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03202-8_16

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