| Title | Improving the Assessment of Evidence Informed Health Care Competence: A Five Step Approach |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2016 |
| Completion | 09/30/2019 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2016/2017 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Alison Greig |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 21,540 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Alison Greig, Senior Instructor, Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine |
| Year 1: Summary | Recently, considerable attention has been placed on the importance of improving the teaching of evidence informed health care (EIHC) skills across all professions at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Beginning in 2014-15, the West coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator (WICKED) team developed, and is currently evaluating, five interactive online modules to teach EIHC to UBC health professional students. This process identified a gap in reliable and valid tools for assessing EIHC competence. This project aims to develop a set of tools that will meaningfully assess student competence in EIHC across all five steps of the EIHC model, and will be designed so that each step can be assessed individually or as a complete set. A set of tools that can fully and validly assess students’ competence in EIHC can enhance student learning and assist instructors to better prepare and train students to be effective EIHC practitioners in future clinical practice. |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Alison Greig |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 17,500 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Alison Greig, Senior Instructor, Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine |
| Year 2: Summary | Considerable attention has been placed on the importance of improving the teaching of evidence informed health care (EIHC) skills across all health professions at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A review of the EIHC assessment literature has identified a gap in reliable and valid tools for assessing EIHC competence. This project aims to develop and preliminarily validate a set of online tools, based on clinical scenarios and virtual patient cases. The intention is that these tools will be applicable to multiple health professions, and will assess student competence (knowledge and skills) in all five steps of the EIHC model. These assessments are being designed so that each step can be assessed individually or as a complete set. A set of tools that can provide a reliable and valid assessment of student competence in EIHC can enhance student learning and assist instructors to better prepare and train students to be effective EIHC practitioners in future clinical practice. |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2017-TLEF-SP-Final-Greig-WEB.pdf |