Keeping up with the literature: A current practice survey and qualitative needs assessment among emergency physicians.

Purpose: Physicians face the challenge of staying current with a rapidly growing body of evidence and applying it to their practice. How emergency physicians (EPs) do so is unknown. The authors sought to describe and assess needs around EP patterns of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and continuing medical education (CME) resource use.

The revised Approved Instructional Resources score: An improved quality evaluation tool for online educational resources.

Background: Free Open-Access Medical education (FOAM) use among residents continues to rise. However, it often lacks quality assurance processes and residents receive little guidance on quality assessment. The Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Approved Instructional Resources tool (AAT) was created for FOAM appraisal by and for expert educators and has demonstrated validity in this context.

Evidence-based Medicine Simulation: A Novel and Practice-relevant Approach to Teaching Real-time Literature Searching to Emergency Medicine Residents.

Introduction: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and literature searching skills are competencies within the emergency medicine (EM) residency curriculum. Previously in our residency program, a librarian taught literature searching instruction, including a classroom-based overview of search engines. Learners reported low engagement and poor retention.

The Revised METRIQ Score: A Quality Evaluation Tool for Online Educational Resources.

Background: With the rapid proliferation of online medical education resources, quality evaluation is increasingly critical. The Medical Education Translational Resources: Impact and Quality (METRIQ) study evaluated the METRIQ-8 quality assessment instrument for blogs and collected feedback to improve it.

Methods: As part of the larger METRIQ study, participants rated the quality of five blog posts on clinical emergency medicine topics using the eight-item METRIQ-8 score.

Assessment of emergency medicine residents: a systematic review.

Background: Competency-based medical education is becoming the new standard for residency programs, including Emergency Medicine (EM). To inform programmatic restructuring, guide resources and identify gaps in publication, we reviewed the published literature on types and frequency of resident assessment.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycInfo and ERIC from Jan 2005 - June 2014.

Helicobacter pylori status among patients undergoing gastroscopy in rural northern Alberta.

Objective: To determine the Helicobacter pylori status of patients who underwent gastroscopy.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: Peace River Community Health Centre in rural northwestern Alberta.