Table 4 Percentage of maximum-possible-score (median, 95% confidence interval) for specific evidence-based medicine (EBM) topics in the EBM group after the intervention and associated percent change from the baseline (n = 39a)
EBM topic | ACE test | Berlin test | Fresno test | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Max score | Post-test (% of max score) | Improvement from pre-test (% of max score) | Max score | Post-test (% of max score) | Improvement from pre-test (% of max score) | Max score | Post-test (% of max score) | Improvement from pre-test (% of max score) | |
Asking questions | 2 | 100 (100–100) | 50 (0–50) | 6 | 100 for all students – no variability | 33 (33–50) | |||
Information sources | 6 | 33 (33–67) | 33 (0–33) | ||||||
Study design | 3 | 67 (67–67) | 0 (0–33) | 20 | 55 (35–80) | 30 (20–60) | |||
Searching for evidence | 2 | 100 (100–100) | 0 (0–50) | 8 | 75 (38–75) | 38 (38–63) | |||
Internal validity | 7 | 71 (71–71) | 14 (14–29) | 3 | 71 (61–81) | 0 (0–33) | 24 | 21 (21–21) | 21 (0–21) |
Clinical importance | 4 | 50 (50–50) | 0 (0–25) | 28 | 46 (43–60) | 43 (32–46) | |||
Application | 4 | 50 (50–75) | 0 (0–25) | 1 | 100 (0–100) | 0 (0–0) | 12 | 42 (42–75) | 42 (42–42) |
Diagnostic accuracy | 4 | 50 (25–50) | 25 (25–25) | 20 | 0 (0–20) | 0 (0–20) | |||
All topics | 15 | 73 (67–80) | 13 (13–20) | 15 | 60 (47–67) | 13 (7–20) | 124 | 45 (40–50) | 31 (25–42) |