Emergency physicians' perceptions of critical appraisal skills: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critical appraisal of medical research is a valuable skill set that emergency physicians must learn in order to become competent clinicians. Despite the need for effective critical appraisal skills training, these skills have remained difficult to teach and assess. This study aimed to explore emergency physicians' perceptions of the barriers and motivations for learning critical appraisal skills in order to develop more successful critical appraisal training methods for Emergency Medicine (EM) residents.

Methods

This qualitative study involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews with emergency physicians interested in education and administration at an urban academic hospital. Transcribed interviews were descriptively coded by three main reviewers. A coding templ

SUBMITTER: Wood S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013089 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature