Many healthcare professionals and consumers now use the internet to search for healthcare information. Think of a specific clinical topic that you are interested in and then use a generic search tool (e.g. Google) to locate written material. How much information does this generic search yield? How much of it looks credible? Can you trust the source of this document? Generate a set of questions
that would be useful to question the scientific merit of the healthcare information you see via a general web-based search. Work in a group to discuss proposed questions and gain consensus of which information could be used as evidence, and which would be questionable.
What will be an ideal response?
This tutorial discussion would aim to assist students to think about a general search engine such as Google and think about the level of quality of what they find. They may consider the difference between Google and Google Scholar. Google may find interesting grey literature for them but they still need to consider the source and that source's credibility. The discussion can generate the idea of using an instrument to assess information and determine the level of the source's credibility. This is the beginnings of thinking about critique as a tool to judge what we are reading and consider if it is worth considering let alone changing practice for.
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