hi Eva
We did a study looking at the impact of introducing problem-based
learning across a midwifery curriculum - this was called enquiry-based
learning as it did include the kind of focus you are describing, though
before the shift to PBL the curriculum did also try to encourage the
students to use evidence in this way.
It was not practical for us to do a controlled trial, but we did look at
cohorts of students before and following the change. The study was
published in Midwifery in 2001:
McCourt C, Thomas BG. Evaluation of a Problem-based curriculum in
midwifery. Midwifery 17:323-331, December 2001.
A more recent follow-up study looked at academic staff and students'
perspectives on the change and is being published as follows:
Rowan C McCourt C Beake S Bick D 2007 Problem based Learning in
Midwifery- The teachers perspective. Nurse Education Today (27(131-138)
and 2 further articles not yet in print looking at students' views and
long-term follow up of the original study, in Nurse Education Today and
Midwifery.
hope this is useful
Chris
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Subject: Articles re EBP teaching to midwives
I'm currently performing a systematic review on 'Effectiveness of EBP
teaching in nursing and midwifery' for my MScMidwifery dissertation. My
inclusion criteria regarding study design was: RCTs, CCTs, ITSs and CBAs
studies and (as you can imagine) I'm struggling to find any of these.
I'm
considering then to analyse the existing literature, including also
simple
BAs or other designs. I would appreciate if any of you could facilitate
me
references of quantitative studies on the teaching of EBP to nurses
and/or
midwives or studies focusing on the teaching of any of the steps of EBP
(Critical appraisal, literature search, application of results to
practice, etc). Thanks in advance!
Eva Menendez
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