Perfilado de sección
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Download the lesson notes in the file. They are divided into 5 short PDF documents. Each PDF document guides you to do the online exercises or to try different search skills.
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Watch the video where a patient describes her problem with obesity. After, read the comments in the chat below the video. Finally, write your own comment in our group forum: is obesity a 'medical' problem or a 'behavioral' issue? Click here:
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Jennifer’s battle with obesity’. There are five True/False questions to answer online.Listening skills is not an 'exam' objective in this course, but these questions may help you understand Jennifer's story better! Try!
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Instructions
Read the case and identify the key question that need answers
Giovanni is a 53-year old Italian truck driver. He’s married with 3 children. He’s is generally in good health but has a problem with his weight. His family has a tendency to put on weight too and his dad died of a heart attack at 64. The GP has often given him advice on diet and lifestyle but without much compliance on Giovanni’s part. Today Giovanni thinks he might have a solution.
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Instructions
I want you to imagine you are patient searching for info on the web. You are probably pretty good already! Try to look, however, for the potential traps patients might fall into using the internet. Might these cause problems to doctors? Use the forum to share your thoughts!
Do your own search and see what you find
a) Google or Yahoo
b) What kind of information did you find?
c) How would you rate the quality of the information?
d) Is it enough to answer Giovanni’s question?
e) How many and what kind of hits did you get? Was it scientific? Commercial? Trustworthy?
Keep a record of your results in your portfolio -
Read the lesson notes for activities 1.7- 1.9 After doing your own searches examine your Medline results. Does 'chitosan' work. Read the abstracts carefully and weigh the evidence. Then answer the questions in this quiz.
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Write a short synthesis of the evidence based medicine (EBM) themes of this module (max 200 words). Write in English or Italian. You can refer to Giovanni's case. In your summary, connect the key concepts in the shapes on page 8 of your lesson notes: quality care; EBM; Medline & internet technology; patient issues; English language.
Before starting, remember to refer to the GIMBE website link in the introduction to clarify what we mean by 'evidence' in medicine. This as an individual exercise.
Provide at least two reference from your Medline searches below your answer. Write the reference professionally for a medical publication (hint: look at the lesson notes for a study box example, or the reference list of a clinical paper for a model)
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