A nice article tracing the history, development and future challenges of providing enhanced, freely-accessible information from the National Library of Medicine.
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Enabling access to biomedical information
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Sound scientific base?
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments
An interesting pair of brief editorials in the May 2008 issue of Chest about whether or not EBM has a sound scientific base.
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Recent grads, minorities, women and practice guidelines
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments
A recent article from Health Services Research highlights something heard casually: newer graduates report a greater influence from practice guidelines.
Scientific literacy for the twenty-first century
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This commentary has insightful thoughts. I particularly like:
“Students and residents today are exposed to evidence-based medicine in intermittent and variable doses.”
“The capacity to understand how evidence is generated, synthesized, and applied to the care of an individual patient with unique characteristics and preference can no longer be considered a special interest [...]
Evidence-based audiology
February 4th, 2008 · No Comments
This week I’m giving a presentation for Audiology Grand Rounds. Click here for a PDF of it. This was interesting to put together. The evidence base in this field, and others, is expanding.
Teaching about Complementary & Alternative Medicine
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
My RSS feed on evidence-based medicine in PubMed turned up this article sharing experience and guidance teaching about complementary & alternative medicine (CAM). Of note is their emphasis on showing students to look for evidence about CAM therapies.
Moving beyond journal clubs
October 10th, 2007 · No Comments
I found this article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine yesterday, and I’ve really found it useful. I’ve found myself referring to it several times.
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Answerable questions
October 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital published a nice overview of how to form an answerable clinical question.
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