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Teaching Graduate Students to Make Evidence-Based Intervention Decisions: Application of a Seven-Step Process Within an Authentic Learning Context
Topics in Language Disorders
  • Sandra Laing Gillam, Utah State University
  • Ronald B. Gillam, Utah State University
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract

Clinical education provides an authentic context for teaching graduate students how to make evidence-based clinical decisions. We present a seven-step evidence-based practice decision-making process that supervisors can teach graduate students who are enrolled in clinical practicum experiences. Clinical supervisors can teach students to ask appropriate clinical questions, to conduct literature reviews, to critically appraise research evidence, and to systematically integrate external and internal evidence in ways that lead to effective assessment and treatment decisions. The article explains how supervisors can teach the steps in the evidence-based practice decision-making process to students as they answer clinical questions about clients they are serving.

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Gillam, S., & Gillam, R. (2008). Teaching graduate students to make evidence-based intervention decisions: Application of a seven-step process within an authentic learning context. Topics in Language Disorders, 28, 212-228.