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Trip Database

Trip Database

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Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip has been online since 1997 and an important source of evidence-based content. The motto of the Founders of TRIP is - ‘Find evidence fast’ and this is something they aim to deliver for all searches done on the database The subscribed version of TRIP promises lots more. As well as research evidence the engine allows clinicians to search across other content types like lots more systematic reviews and guidelines and also images, videos,…
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Evidence Based Medicine Practice and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Students

Evidence Based Medicine Practice and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Students

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Educational Prescriptions to Document Evidence-Based Medicine Questions in Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences. Philbrick AM, Hager KD, Lounsbery JL, Moon JY, Pereira C, Undeberg MR, Westberg SM, Reidt S. Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 Oct;83(8):7299. doi: 10.5688/ajpe7299. PMID: 31831906; PMCID: PMC6900823. Researchers form University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, USA conducted a study to design, implement, and assess the use of “educational prescriptions (Education Rx)” assignments among Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students in advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) in ambulatory care. And also, they assessed the impact of these assignments on students’ self-efficacy to practice Evidence Based Medicine (EBM).…
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Getting ready a generation of students who are better prepared for their PG thesis

Getting ready a generation of students who are better prepared for their PG thesis

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Approximately about a decade ago when we started teaching literature searching, I used to say that this should be taught to all PG students. A niece of mine - who had just started her BDS, one day told me that we should seriously consider starting at the UG level. She emphasized - "When we start our PG program, we start seeing patients. We want to be practitioners. And our days are filled. As for medical graduates it is probably even more hectic for them. You teach UG students - they are at the learning stage - and will absorb anything…
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