Using information literacy to teach medical entrepreneurship and health care economics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Entrepreneurship and innovative product design in health care requires expertise in finding and evaluating diverse types of information from a multitude of sources to accomplish a number of tasks, such as securing regulatory approval, developing a reimbursement strategy, and navigating intellectual property. The authors sought to determine whether an intensive, specialized information literacy training program that introduced undergraduate biomedical engineering students to these concepts would improve the quality of the students' design projects. We also sought to test whether information literacy training that included active learning exercises would offer increased benefits over training delivered via lectures and if this specialized information literacy training would

SUBMITTER: Carroll AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6466497 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature