Table of Contents
3.1 Exploring the Structure of a Medical Research Article
Objective: Identify the components of a medical research article.
3.2 What Differentiates Primary and Secondary Literature?
Objective: Distinguish between primary and secondary literature in the health sciences.
3.3 What Are Evidence Taxonomies?
Objectives: Recognize the relationships between different types of literature in terms of evidence.
Explain the difference in evidence taxonomies.
Understand that the best evidence may not be the highest literature type in the hierarchy.
3.4 What Are Proprietary Literature, Open Access Literature, and OER?
Objective: Differentiate between OER, open access and proprietary literature.
3.1 Exploring the Structure of a Medical Research Article
3.2 What Differentiates Primary and Secondary Literature?
Primary and Secondary literature play important roles in Evidence Based Medicine.
3.2 Activity: Match the Citation to Primary or Secondary Literature
3.3 What Are Evidence Taxonomies?
3.3 Activity – Instructions
3.4 What are Proprietary Literature, Open Access Literature and OER?
Module 3 Synopsis
There are many ways to think about types of literature. Articles can be primary (research) or secondary (systematic reviews of other literature.) They can be open access or pay to read. These types are important to keep in mind as we search for the best available evidence.
