Training the trainer

Nordic Baltic EAHIL Workshop

June 26, Oslo

Irene Wiik & Lena Nordheim

Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs

How to plan a Finding the evidence workshop

Aims and objectives Aim

– To help participants improve their ability to organise and carry out a “finding the evidence” workshop

Objectives– to be aware of important issues in planning

a successful workshop– to be aware of different teaching methods– to share and learn from the experience of

other participants

This is NOT

a workshop on how to

find the evidence, but

how to train others to

find the evidence

Workshop planning

Practical issues Programme issues Evaluation issues Equipment Training materials On the day...

Workshop planning - example

You have been asked to organise a

Pubmed course at your local hospital.

You have been told that there will be a

group of 15 participants. The course is set

for 3 and a half hours.

Questions - example Who?

– Nurses and doctors Level of knowledge

– Little or no experience in searching PubMed Where?

– The hospital library’s PC-lab When?

– In two weeks Resources

– 10 computers with Internet access– Video projector

Aims and objectives - example Aims

– To help participants improve their skills in searching PubMed

Objectives– To know the basics about Pubmed coverage and

contents– To know the difference between free text and MeSH

searching – Know how and when to use the “Clinical Queries”-

function– To be able to use MeSH– Printing and saving references

Programme - example

09.00 Introduction

09.10 Question formulation

09.30 Basic search techniques

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 MeSh searching

12.15 Summary

Teaching methods

”Classroom” approach Interactive:

– Small groups– Intermediary tasks– Hands-on

A mix of both approaches

Tips and tricks

Ice-breakers Power-point slides: cartoons,

animations etc. Scenarios “Play and playthings” Intermediary tasks

Ice-breaker

Example:– Think about a

situation where you needed to search for information in order to do a proper job. Describe this to your neighbour and tell him/her what sources you used

ScenariosOle is a young public health physician who has just started to practise medicine. He has a lot of patients who smoke. He is not sure whether there is any point in advising them to stop smoking. He asks a colleague who says that he does not want to talk about smoking with his patients because he thinks it can ruin the positive doctor-patient relationship he feels he has with his patients. Ole is aware of this discussion and that some practitioners still choose not to raise smoking cessation as an issue. He wants to know what is the effectiveness of advice from physicians in promoting smoking cessation.

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Play and playthings

NOK 1000

What does MeSH mean?

A) Medical Stupid Headings

B) Medical Subject Headings?

C) Medical Surgery Headings

D) Medical Search Headings

NOK 20 000

Which database provides ”Clinical Queries”?

A) Pubmed B) Best Evidence

C) Ovid Medline D) Cochrane Library

Colourline is a database about colour therapy. It consists of 15 documents. You want to find documents about:

A) red AND blue

B) red OR blue

C) red NOT blue

REMEMBER:

The terms occur in the same document

The terms occur in the same document or in separate documents

The one term occurs alone in the document, the other is absent

Document 1 Document 2 Document 3 Document 4 Document 5

Document 6 Document 7 Document 8 Document 9 Document 10

Document 11 Document 12 Document 13 Document 14 Document 15

red black

blue

green yellow

bluegreen

purple black

purple

purple yellow

green

pink

green yellow

purple

redpink

yellow

blackblue

green

red

pink yellow

redgreen

purple

black

blue pink

green yellow

black

purplegreen

pink

yellow

green blue

yellow

redblack

black

pink

purple

green

black green

yellow red

purple

pink

yellowblue

greenblack

purple blue

black

yellow pink

yellowpink

redgreen

pink black

purplered

blue yellow

Intermediary tasks

See hand-outs!!

Sharing training tips and resources

Examples from England:– National Electronic Library for Health

http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/info_skills.asphttp://www.nelh.nhs.uk/dlnet/

– Cochrane Library http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/cochlib.htm

How can you share your resources and tips with others?

NeLH: Digital Libraries Net

NeLH: Information skills training

Cochrane Library: