This study analyses information flow in the clinical practice of resident physicians. To this end it considers the precepts of Evidence Based Medicine] (EBM), and focuses on resident physicians at UFSC University Hospital medical clinics. The relevance of this research project is underpinned by several reasons: the recognition of EBM in clinical practice as an alternative that can support clinical decisions, through the selection of information sources of greater evidence available in medical literature; verification that there is a lack of studies on resident physicians in the national literature - the majority of studies have focused on the manner that physicians and professors in health fields use the information systems and services; the conviction that the use of information selected according to criteria encourages more efficient clinical practice. This study identifies and analyses the processes involved in information flow in clinical practice by physicians from the perspectives of selection, access, retrieval and use of information sources. It presents an ideal model of information flow from the perspective of EBM.
Information flow; Evidence Based Medicine; Information access
