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Rethinking Medical Journal Club
One of the earliest medical journal club references is credited to Cushing's description of Osler's first formal journal club held in 1875 while at McGill: “for the purchase and distribution of periodicals to which he could ill afford to subscribe as an individual.”
Over the ensuing decades, the goals and nature of these collegial meetings have evolved and gone on to gain wide professional acceptance, especially within teaching programs, serving as venues of knowledge discovery and its dissemination. Medical journal clubs continue to play an indispensable role in academic life where professional staff and trainees regularly congregate, present, and critically appraise the latest in…
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Applying the Power of Twitter to Medical Journal Clubs
Among the various social networks, Twitter is unique in that it gives us real-time ability to access information from people all over the world, along with the ability to connect directly with individuals. These unique abilities have led to the use of Twitter being used in innovative ways in medicine never imagined by the original developers.
Family Medicine Journal Club: To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
Online journal clubs have recently become popular, but their effectiveness in promoting meaningful discussion of the evidence is unknown. We aimed to understand the learner experience of a hybrid online-traditional family medicine journal club.
How to Organize a Journal Club for Fellows and Residents
The information explosion in the medical field posts a challenge on how to extract useful resources among a multitude of publications daily.
Journal Club: How to Build One and Why
Journal clubs are a longstanding tradition in residency training, dating back to William Osler in 1875. The original goal of the journal club in Osler’s day was to share expensive texts and to review literature as a group. Over time, the goals of journal clubs have evolved to include discussion and review of current literature and development of skills for evaluating medical literature. The ultimate goal of a journal club is to improve patient care by incorporating evidence into practice.
Retraction Watch: Providing Information About Bad Information
In a field supposedly peer-reviewed and self-correcting, there is a decided lack of transparency and dissemination when it comes to retractions. Enter Retraction Watch, which aims to change the paradigm.
Rethinking Medical Journal Club
While the classic journal club format has maintained consistency—junior staff present the essence of a chosen article and a senior faculty member facilitates consequent discussion among attendees—the journal club's ability to “keep up” and disseminate new knowledge on a timely basis has become unsustainable due to exponential growth in biomedical publications.
ACP Journal Club
ACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Wiki Journal Club
Wiki Journal Club (WJC) summarizes and reviews landmark studies across medicine and surgical specialties.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Bookshelf
HSTATis a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making.
Cochrane
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of more than 31,000 dedicated people from over 120 countries. We work together to help healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about health care, by preparing, updating, and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews — over 5,000 so far, published online in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, part of The Cochrane Library.
Essential Evidence Plus
We improve the health and lives of people by providing patient-oriented evidence that matters in a rapid and accessible form.
Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Genamics
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 93424 titles. Journal information includes the description, journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
JournalWATCH
JournalWATCH helps physicians and allied health professionals save time and stay informed by providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice.
MedBio World
MedBioWorld is a premier online resource portal for professional medical and biotechnology information.
MIT Libraries
The MIT Libraries promote discovery and enable learning and advancement of knowledge at MIT.
National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Betheseda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health.
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Elsevier
As the world's leading publisher of science and health information, Elsevier serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide.
Healio
Healio.com enables you, the health care specialist, to select and tailor news and education to fit your daily practice of medicine. Designed as an in-depth specialty clinical information website, Healio features the industry’s best news reporting, dynamic multimedia, question-and-answer columns, CME and other educational activities in a variety of formats, quick reference content, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and a full line of popular book titles.
Internet Scientific Publications
Find journal research with over 3000 sources.
Medicine
Medicine® provides insight from leading scholars about the latest results in clinical investigation. Relevant to both hospital and office practice, the journal includes analytical reviews of Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry topics. Articles typically include original patient data from the author's own experience along with a scholarly review of the literature.
Oxford
Our goal is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience. As a major international publisher of academic and research journals, we publish well over 200 journals, many in partnership with the world''s leading prestigious learned societies.
Taylor & Francis
Discover. Learn. Share.
Wolters Kluwer
You'll find the best medical literature in the world... Content is updated regularly, according to the frequency of each journal, assuring you of the most up-to-date information available.
CMAJ
CMAJ has had significant impact on medicine and health care in Canada – and the world – over the last 102 years. In Canada, the journal has played a key role in raising awareness of health and medico-social issues on topics such as the link between sun exposure and skin cancer, the dangers of smoking, contraception, abortion, euthanasia and other topics. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011.
JAMA
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. The online version is made freely available to institutions in developing countries.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
The "Journal of Medical Internet Research" (JMIR; ISSN 1438-8871, Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res), founded in 1999, is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal (ranked first by impact factor in these disciplines) focussing on emerging technologies in health, medicine, and biomedical research. JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies...
MJA
The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is Australia’s leading peer-reviewed general medical journal. It has been delivering ground-breaking research to the medical community since 1914. Published twice a month, with double issues in January and December (22 issues a year), the MJA covers all the important issues affecting Australian health care, publishing the latest Australian clinical research, evidence-based reviews, clinical practice updates, authoritative medical opinion and debate, and developments within the humanities with respect to medicine. The MJA encourages comment and debate from readers.
OpenMD
Search billions of documents from medical organizations, journals, and databases.
Questia
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection.
The BMJ
Now, as a values-driven company and global brand, we work toward our vision for 'a healthier world.' We do this by partnering with more than 8,000 medical organisations worldwide so they can provide their users with the best available resources.
The Lancet
The Lancet's prestigious heritage as one of the world's leading medical journals continues to inspire our authors and editors today as they strive for medical excellence in all that they publish. When Thomas Wakley founded The Lancet in 1823, he announced "A lancet can be an arched window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to use it in both senses". This philosophy remains at the heart of the journal today.
The New England Journal of Medicine
The NEJM Weekly CME Program offers one-credit exams based on specific articles in the New England Journal of Medicine as each issue is published. Exams are available on the Web or in print when you want to take them.
U.S. Medicine
U.S. Medicine is a monthly publication that serves healthcare professionals working in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and U.S. Public Health Service. Each month U.S. Medicine provides 35,000 physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and administrators with a mix of news, medical updates, interviews, reports on special government topics and monthly columns.
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