Table 2.

Students’ views on the adequacy of the evidence-based medicine course in the preclinical and clinical years (in surgery clerkship)

	Insufficient		Moderately sufficient		Sufficient
	n	%	n	%	n	%
EBM course in the preclinical years
Importance of accessing information	3	3.1	42	43.8	51	53.1
Information literacy	15	15.6	58	60.4	23	24.0
Information literate	20	20.8	57	59.4	19	19.8
Criteria for assessing reference books	34	35.4	40	41.7	22	22.9
Criteria for assessing reference journals	43	44.8	33	34.4	20	20.8
Criteria for assessing articles	19	19.8	40	41.7	37	38.5
Search engine	4	4.2	47	49.0	45	46.9
Health database	16	16.7	46	47.9	34	35.4
Initials of web pages	40	41.7	42	43.8	14	14.6
Criteria for assessing web pages	34	35.4	43	44.8	19	19.8
Cues for searching information	14	14.6	54	56.3	28	29.2
Practice of EBM with homework	18	18.8	50	52.1	28	29.2
EBM course in the clinical years
Recalling prior knowledge (presentation)	4	4.2	28	29.2	64	66.7
Content of the course	1	1.0	41	42.7	54	56.3
Cases for EBM practice	7	7.3	30	31.3	59	61.5
Practice of EBM	5	5.2	34	35.4	57	59.4