Information seeking and evaluation: a multi-institutional survey of veterinary students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To practice evidence-based medicine, clinicians must be competent in information literacy (IL). Few studies acknowledge the critical role that reading strategies play in IL instruction and assessment of health professional students. The purpose of this study was to understand the information-seeking and evaluation behaviors of doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) students in regard to scientific papers.

Methods

The authors studied DVM student behaviors across eight programs in North America using a web-based survey of closed- and open-ended questions about finding and evaluating scientific papers, including a task to read a linked scientific paper and answer questions about it.

Results

A total of 226 individuals responded to the survey. The sections of a scie

SUBMITTER: Eldermire ERB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774543 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature