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6Ts teaching tips for evidence-based practitioners

¹ McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
² Baycrest Health Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
³ University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
⁴ University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
⁵ University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⁶ Duke University and Durham VA Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA

Key Words: evidence-based medicine

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At the June 2005 McMaster Evidence-Based Practice Workshop, our group, led by librarian Jan Figurski and tutor trainee Rakesh Patel, developed a very useful teaching tool for our tutorials. We called it the 4Ts Teaching Tips. After such initial success, the rest of us further developed the tool into the 6Ts Teaching Tips at the June 2006 Workshop. The overall objective of this tool is to provide a touchstone to both plan and evaluate a teaching session.

(1) The first T stands for Time management. A critical appraisal exercise or any teaching session requires careful planning about topics to be covered in a specified period of time. The first T also reminds teachers about leaving time for evaluation at the end.

(2) The second T is for Teamwork, to ensure engagement of all parties. Planning sessions with interaction in mind encourages at least 1 strategy to elicit meaningful participation (eg, . . . [Full text of this article]