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The Resource Library contains a collection of higher education learning and teaching materials flowing from projects funded by the Commonwealth of Australia including those from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

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Curriculum Renewal for Evidence-based Practice: Implementing a Blended Learning Approach in Medicine

Dragan Ilic
Monash University
2014
Monash University
Bond University, University of Southern California (USA)
Final Report Download Document (645.88 KB)
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/clinepi/ebp.html

Curriculum Renewal for Evidence-based Practice in Australasian Optometry

Isabelle Jalbert, Catherine Suttle, Kirsten Challinor, Barbara Junghans, Michael Pianta, Elizabeth Murray, Rachel Thompson, Rob Jacobs, Leanne Togher
The University of New South Wales
2014
The University of New South Wales
Flinders University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Auckland (NZ), The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney
Final Report Download Document (2.24 MB)
http://www.eboptometry.com

Facilitating the Integration of Evidence Based Practice into Speech Pathology Curricula: A Scoping Study to Examine the Congruence Between Academic Curricula and Work Based Needs

Leanne Togher, Michelle Lincoln, Patricia McCabe, Natalie Munro, Emma Power, Corina Yiannoukas, Pratiti Ghosh, Alison Ferguson, Elisabeth Harrison, Elizabeth Ward, Linda Worrall, Jacinta Douglas
The University of Sydney
2009
The University of Sydney
La Trobe University, Macquarie University, The University of Newcastle
Final Report Download Document (816.67 KB)

goodpractice

This resource profiles two surveys that sought to elicit the views of a representative sample of academic staff and clinical educators in regards to the integration and application of evidence based practice (EBP) in speech pathology education. The gaps and challenges of incorporating EBP into curricula and clinical education and clearly discussed. The survey was undertaken in 2009 as a component of a project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

The resource, while focused on speech pathology education, will have broader application for a range of health professions where the challenge of integrating EBP into academic and clinical education is a perennial problem. The results of the survey, while not particularly surprising, are illuminative and identify some of the key issues that educators face in creating a culture where EBP is integral to contemporary practice rather than simply another academic 'subject'.

This resource can be accessed as a pdf document as part of the full report of the ALTC project. The full report also provides an interesting contextual discussion of the issues surrounding speech pathology education and EBP.

The strengths, challenges and recommendations sections of this resource will be valuable to those involved in health professional education.

The resource is succinct (14 pages) and written in plain English. Some of the tables included in the report, although relevant, will take some time to interpret.

The authors correctly identify the limitations of the approach taken in this study, ie potentially valuable student perspectives were not sought, and the surveys were based on self-report rather than observational/behavioural measures. The resource also mentions observation of four case studies but provides only limited discussion or analysis of this aspect of the study. However, the complete case studies are available as part of the full ALTC report, as are the surveys.

30th September 2010