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A Study Of Evidence Based Practice In Health Professional Education: Advantages And Dangers, Elizabeth Depoy, Stephen F. Gilson Nov 2022

A Study Of Evidence Based Practice In Health Professional Education: Advantages And Dangers, Elizabeth Depoy, Stephen F. Gilson

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Evidence-based practice is highly valued by health professionals for its predictive capacity. Yet, as affirmed by the NASDDDS/AUCD Evidence-Based Policy Initiative, this approach to health care may inadvertently contribute to inequity of access to health support services and policy. This study was conducted to examine how health professional faculty, students, and curricula understand and reconcile evidence-based knowledge with other valuable forms of knowing that support diversity and health equity.