Table 1.

Characteristics of students at baseline in two active intervention arms (InfoRetriever and pocket card) and control arm. Values are numbers (percentages) of students unless stated otherwise

Characteristic	Pocket card group (n=59)	Control group (n=55)	InfoRetriver group (n=54)
Mean (SD) age (years)	22.4 (1.1)	22.3 (0.7)	22.5 (1.3)
Women	25 (42)	25 (45)	20 (37)
Educational background:
Local secondary school	44 (75)	46 (84)	45 (83)
Local international or overseas secondary school	11 (19)	8 (15)	6 (11)
University	4 (7)	1 (2)	3 (6)
Mean (SD) examination scores by year 3	68.1 (3.7)	69.7 (4.1)	68.8 (3.6)
Mean (SD) factor scores:
Personal application and current use of evidence based medicine	2.2 (0.5)	2.4 (0.5)	2.3 (0.6)
Future use of evidence based medicine	3.9 (0.6)	3.7 (0.6)	3.8 (0.7)
Individual item scores:
Frequency of looking up evidence1*	1.2 (1.2)	1.1 (1.0)	0.7 (0.8)
Frequency of raising role of current best evidence2†	2.6 (1.0)	2.9 (1.0)	2.5 (0.8)
Confidence in clinical decision making3‡	2.8 (0.8)	2.9 (0.7)	2.6 (0.8)

^*On average, how often do you look up evidence during or after clerking each patient on the ward or in the clinic?

^†How frequently have you raised the role of current best evidence during teaching rounds or bedside teaching?

^‡How much confidence do you have in your clinical decision making?