Week 2 – Discussion 2
 
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

 
     
Evidence   Based Medicine
 A knowledge based clinical decision support system contains the rules and associations of compiled data. The knowledge base is derived through a process of translational research in which knowledge from scientific discoveries is translated into clinical applications. This evidence based knowledge is then converted into a format understandable by computers. One such knowledge base is PubMed Central.  PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). 

Explore this resource using the      search term “Evidence based medicine in health care”.
Find two articles that interest      you that were published within the last two years. Summarize these      articles in your discussion post.
Explore the PubMed Central      website .  Identify a minimum of two other resources from the site      that would be beneficial in your future career .

Guided response: Your initial post should be a minimum of 200-250 words.

Utilize a minimum of two      scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.
Sources should be cited in APA      format, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
You must respond to at least      two of your classmate’s posts by Day 7.
Your three required posts must      be on three different days of the week. 
After reading other initial      posts, identify a journal that would be beneficial to your future career      and why. 

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your discussion.