PPC IV Literature Review Requirements (self-directed learning assignment): Introduction

Thank you to Chad Statler, MLIS for his work transferring this assignment guide from a print document to a library guide. His help on the guide was greatly appreciated.

This guide is an assignment guide for the PPC IV literature review assignment. You must receive a passing grade (70% or higher) on the assignment to pass the PPC IV course.

At the completion of this assignment, students will be able to:

• independently identify a clinical/research question that they want to answer
• locate credible data to answer the question
• synthesize the information they have found
• apply the feedback provided to better answer future questions
• show competence in scientific writing expected of an physician
• cite references within the text of a paper and in the literature cited section of the paper.

Please refer questions about the assignment to Heather McEwen, MLIS, MS.

Office: G-142 (within the Department of Family and Community Medicine)
Phone: 330-325-6605
E:mail: hm2@neomed.edu