Evaluating your performance

The final step of the evidence-based approach is self-evaluation. In their Evidence-based Medicine textbook (ref 1). Sackett et al suggest a number of self-evaluation questions for each stage of the evidence-based approach.  A few examples are shown below:

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."  Confucius (circa 551-479 BC)

Question

  • Am I asking any clinical questions?
  • Are they well structured?


Finding

  • Am I searching for evidence?
  • Do I know what the best sources are?
  • Am I getting better at it?
  • Am I finding evidence?


Appraisal

  • Am I critically appraising evidence?
  • Am I geting better at it?


Act

  • Am I using evidence I find and appraising it in my practice?

 


References
  1. Straus SE, Richardson WS, Glasziou P, Haynes RB. Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. Third Edition.Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh, 2005.

 

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