ABSTRACT

 
Project Title: Evidence-based Medicine Approach to Medical Education & Clinical Care
Project Director: James R. Beal, Ph.D. and William S. Mann
Organization Name:

Department of Family Medicine

Address:

PO Box 9037

501 N Columbia Road

Grand Forks, ND 58203

Phone: 701-777-3200
Fax: 701-777-3849

E-mail:

jrbeal@medicine.nodak.edu
Project Period:

July1, 1999 – June 30, 2002 No cost extension July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2003

Amount: $427,478
Discipline: Family Medicine

Our plan is to design and implement sound educational interventions to increase medical students’ mix of competencies and skills via increased participation in interdisciplinary teams and clinical experiences while increasing the number of medical students that choose a primary care residency.  We propose to develop structures and resources in the department to permit major enhancements to the entire predoctoral curriculum and faculty support.

Goal I:    Develop, implement, and evaluate an interdisciplinary, evidence-based medicine curriculum.  This longitudinal curriculum, spanning the entire four years of medical students’ education, will be an integral part of the new “patient-centered learning” curriculum with administration conducted by DFM.  Students will be taught to properly frame and answer clinical questions; provided instruction and access to authoritative evidence-based research databases; and instructed and facilitated in the performance of chart reviews/surveys of clinical care (Goal II).  

Goal II:   Develop, implement and evaluate a practice-based chart review of clinical care program.   Students will use the principles of evidence-based medicine to conduct problem-based, faculty-guided, chart reviews of clinical care family practice clerkship sites and other practices throughout North Dakota.

Goal III:   Enhance the Department of Family Medicine’s capabilities to coordinate, support, and facilitate interdisciplinary medical education and practice-based inquiry.