ICS 4-6 EIP Advanced Tutorial

The Year 2 Evidence-Informed Practice (EIP) component of Integrated Case Studies builds on basic concepts and search skills you were introduced to last year. Sections of the ICS 4-6 EIP Advanced Tutorial and search assignments will be posted on the Canvas course page.

• Work through the Tutorial's tabs (pages) and boxes sequentially.

• Do not begin the search assignments until you have worked through assigned Tutorial material. 

FYI in ICS 6 (spring quarter), students will be required to take an EIP Post-Assessment. Cohort level results will help determine effectiveness of this method for teaching the information literacy skills necessary to the EIP approach; individual results will allow instructors and librarians to gauge each student's competence level and provide targeted review sessions if indicated.

1. Understand and use approaches for information gathering that are inherent to evidence-informed practice (EIP).

2. Develop an awareness of the complementary-alternative-integrative medicine coverage in various information resources.

3. Understand and use advanced techniques to improve search retrieval.

4. Become more familiar with databases other than PubMed using transferable skills to search them.

School of Naturopathic Medicine (SNM) Program Outcomes

SNM Outcome #5: Demonstrate the ability to apply information literacy skills to efficiently and effectively practice evidence-informed clinical practice in patient-care settings.

Information Literacy Competencies

(for meeting the outcome above}

Competency  I: Determines the nature and extent of information needed.

Competency II: Understands copyright law and uses information effectively, ethically, and legally.

Competency III: Able to search across a wide range of platforms, tools, and media.

Competency IV: Acquires needed information effectively and efficiently.

Competency V: Critically evaluates information and sources and develops answerable questions; knows when to revise the initial search query and/or to use additional resources in locating answer(s).

Competency VI: Understands and can apply the principles of evidence-informed practice (EIP).

Competency VII: Understands that information literacy is a process requiring: knowledge of a broad range of resources and how to search them, ability to assess the relative value of a resource for a particular need, and motivation to seek out highest quality sources to answer the question at hand.

NOTE: Competencies based on the ALA Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering Technology and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical School Objectives Project: Medical Informatics Objectives.

The ICS 1-3 EIP Tutorial and assignments last year introduced you to:

• the fundamentals of the evidence-informed practice (EIP) approach,
• types/categories of questions that arise in clinical interactions,
• how to identify a background question,
• the best information resources for answering background questions, and
• advantages of using an information management system to save and organize the increasing amount of clinical information that practitioners encounter (e.g. Mendeley, EndNote)

Reviewing this material now will enrich your context for the more advanced EIP concepts and techniques we'll be introducing this year!