Didactics-Answerable Clinical Questions

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In this video, Dr. Jorge Hegel, a gynecology oncologist from Caracas, Venezuela, discusses the importance of formulating answerable clinical questions in research. He emphasizes the significance of these questions in a clinician's growth as a researcher and their potential positive impact on patients. Dr. Hegel explains that well-formulated research questions allow researchers to focus on the problem, orient the methods, and propose possible solutions. He differentiates between background questions, which ask for general knowledge of disease processes or clinical contexts, and foreground questions, which ask for specific knowledge that can be applied to a particular patient or problem. He highlights that foreground questions require evidence-based answers and can only be answered using results from clinical studies. Dr. Hegel demonstrates examples of background and foreground questions related to gynecological oncology. He also introduces the PICO model, which helps define searchable clinical questions by considering the patient or problem, issue or intervention, comparison, and outcome. Dr. Hegel concludes by emphasizing the importance of formulating research questions before beginning a study and the benefits of having a mentor and a multidisciplinary research team.

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Jorge Hoegl

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Dr. Jorge Hegel

gynecology oncologist

formulating answerable clinical questions

research

PICO model