Then there was a darker curriculum: drills in combat skills, literature lessons that descended into violence and unpredictable nighttime visits when he would return from his late shift at the post office, pull his "black devil child" from bed and beat her until his fury and frustration were spent.
The interviewer had developed a semi-structured interview guide where topics such as attitudes, knowledge, skills, literature, clinical teaching, supervision and experiences from life in general were listed (See additional file 1).
This randomized controlled trial was not able to detect a significant effect of a 4-hour EBM workshop on residents' EBM knowledge and skills, although residents did demonstrate an increase in EBM skills, literature searching, and resource usage over the course of residency training.
These include the error and workplace deviance literatures [ 51, 63, 65], the patient safety, organisational psychology, and non-technical skills literatures [ 23, 27, 101], and social psychological research on perspective taking, burnout, and caring [ 55, 59, 61, 68].
This policy implication is in line with that from the skill development literature, which usually shows early intervention is more beneficial than late intervention (Heckman 2000).
This article provides a review of the health workforce skill mix literature, focusing on task shifting in low-income countries.
This study uses an economics perspective to review the skill mix literature to determine its strength of the evidence, identify gaps in the evidence, and to propose a research agenda.
The acquisition and application of EBM skills including literature searching, critical appraisal of articles and interpretation of diagnostic tests and their limitations is essential to competent clinical care.
A systematic review of postgraduate teaching in EBM conducted in 2004 identified improvement in knowledge, critical skills, attitudes and behaviour; however it did not formally evaluate EBM skills in literature searching [ 2].
Its report was interpreted as endorsing an emphasis on skills, not literature.
