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SILVA, Francisco Eduardo. The Critical Evaluation of Medical Literature as an Educational Supplementary Tool in Medical Internship. Rev. Bras. Educ. Med. [online]. 2018, vol.42, n.1, pp.27-30. ISSN 1981-5271.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-52712018v42n1RB20160109.

This article discusses the scientific literature as an instrument that helps the search of new knowledge for Internship combined with an assessment of critical medical articles publications. The scientific production around the world has become a great ally in medical education can be intensified in the medical internship. Evidence-based health includes the best scientific literature associated with clinical expertise and the patient's will. Evidence-based health it has aroused the need for the health care professional to upgrade through the medical literature, but many scientific literatures are being produced and published without quality evaluated. Knowing how to choose a literature through knowledge of his criticism helps the health care professional to optimize your time. It is in medical schools where the student has the place to learn to identify relevant factors to determine the best product and together with clinical learning to understand and discuss the best management of the patient. The question is the basis of the undergraduate student, followed by the search for better therapy, diagnostic exams, patient's quality of life and the prognosis of diseases. This universe is the thrust of undergraduate students interested in reading an article related to your question. The ease of searches in electronic databases helps in the best literature choice and brings the reader what is being produced by the scientific world. Learning how to critically evaluate scientific literature has become a major partner of undergraduate students in the search for new knowledge with scientific evidence of high quality. The importance in internship teaching of the critical evaluation of literature is to awake on us the interest in clinical research associated with knowledge of new technologies produced around the world, its application consciously to get a better quality of clinical care.

Palabras clave : Students, Medical; Evidence-Based Medicine; Methodology; Journal Article.

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