Exploring medical students’ information-seeking and methodology skills: a perspective from Türkiye
Gazzetta Medica Italiana Archivio per le Scienze Mediche, cilt.184, sa.4, ss.254-263, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 184 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.23736/s0393-3660.24.05457-3
- Dergi Adı: Gazzetta Medica Italiana Archivio per le Scienze Mediche
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, EMBASE
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.254-263
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Ethics, Medical education, Scientific research
- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
BACKGROUND: Students’ self-efficacy beliefs provide the foundation for human motivation, well-being, and personal accomplishment. Our goal was to evaluate and identify the students’ information-seeking and methodology skills, and to evaluate whether medical education required a new perspective and organization. METHODS: First-year medical students were given assignments: two questionnaires and the literature search assignment in terms of health information literacy. The questionnaires were designed to assess various skills, such as the students’ use of the internet for information-seeking, vocabulary regarding health issues, ability to assess information resource quality, and ability to make health and research decisions based on primary or secondary sources. For the literature search assignment, students were asked to choose research topics mostly about medical philosophy lecture, review the literature to find relevant reliable or scientifically valid references, to list these references in AMA style, and to evaluate their references. We analyzed and compared the students’ scores on the questionnaires and the literature search assignment. RESULTS: The results revealed that most of the undergraduates self-evaluated themselves with high scores on both questionnaires of Information Seeking and Methodology Skills. However, their scores were lower when they completed their relevant literature search assignment. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the students need additional education starting from the first year for acquiring of Information Seeking and Methodology Skills. Medical school curriculum could be organized to include additional courses. This study might contribute to the global educational issue of the need of health information literacy in medical education.