medical educationlast update: 17/04/07

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  • Understanding why adolescents decide to visit family physicians ***** new!!!

  • An Evidence-Based Guide to Writing Grant Proposals for Clinical Research (acrobat reader) *****

  • Generalism in medicine *****

  • EMBASE versus MEDLINE for family medicine searches *****

  • Evidence-based decision making—the six step approach *****

  • Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design *****

  • Five pitfalls in decisions about diagnosis and prescribing *****

  • Evidence based diagnostics *****

  • Angina on the Palm *****

  • Using the likelihood ratio *****

  • Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey *****

  • How you too can profit from pharmaceutical advertisements ****

  • Tips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 2. Measures of precision (confidence intervals) *****

  • Generalising the results of trials to clinical practice *****

  • What has evidence based medicine done for us? *****

  • The four pillars of global academic medicine *****

  • Taking account of future technology in cost effectiveness analysis *****

  • How Long Does It Take to Become a Competent Family Physician? *****

  • Users' guide to the surgical literature - How to assess a randomized controlled trial in surgery *****

  • Ruling a diagnosis in or out with "SpPIn" and "SnNOut": a note of caution ****

  • The role of information in reducing medical error ****

  • Is evidence based patient choice feasible? ****

  • Which hand-held computer is better for doctors? ****

  • The beginning of the end for EBM ****

  • Making Evidence-Based Medicine Doable in Everyday Practice *****

  • Why do doctors use treatments that do not work? ****

  • Do family physicians know the costs of medical care? ****

  • Making sense of trial results: outcomes and estimation ****

  • The nexus of evidence, context, and patient preferences in primary care: postal survey of Canadian family physicians ****

  • Where there is no evidence - search skills ****

  • Increasing the impact of health services research ****

  • Cost-Effectiveness Begins Between Your Ears ****

  • How Does Health Information on the Internet Affect the Patient-Doctor Relationship? ****

  • Understanding Sensitivity and Specificity *****

  • Evidence-based medicine in primary care: qualitative study of family physicians ****

  • Telemedicine in the practice setting Infrastructure, not technology, limits practical application ****

  • Practical Evidence-Based Internet Resources ****

  • Balancing benefits and harms in health care ****

  • Cost–utility analysis: Use QALYs only with great caution ****

  • Point-of-Care Information That Changes Practice: It’s Closer Than We Think ****

  • Evidence-Based-Medicine Tools for Your Palm-Top Computer ****

  • Clinical trials research in the new millennium: the International Clinical Trials Symposium, Sydney, 21–23 October 2002 ****

  • Does Pharmaceutical Advertising Contain Accurate Promotional Statements? (acrobat reader) ****

  • City mouse, country mouse Urban vs Rural family physicians **** new!!!

  • Statistical methods in clinical trials ****

  • The Promise of Computerized Patient Record Systems for Office Practice (acrobat reader) ****

  • Applying educational theory in practice ****

  • Characteristics of effective clinical guidelines for general practice ****

  • PubMed and me: Why my coughs are more productive than my searches *****

  • Winning the Lottery *****

  • Integrated narrative and evidence based case report ****

  • Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial ****

  • Key communication skills and how to acquire them - Clinical review ****

  • Putting principles into practice ****

  • Is Communication a Skill? Communication Behaviors and Being in Relation **** (acrobat reader)

  • Myocardial Infarction - Evidence Matters *****

  • Challenges to Using Evidence - Based Medicine in Daily Clinical Practice ****(acrobat reader)

  • Visualizing Cost-effectiveness Analysis ****

  • Doctors' knowledge about evidence based medicine terminology ****

  • Too much medicine? ****

  • Equipping primary care physicians for the digital age ****

  • From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice *****

  • Cost effectiveness of continuing professional development in health care: a critical review of the evidence *****

  • The quality of health information on the internet *****

  • The architecture of diagnostic research *****

  • Evaluating the Place of New Treatments ****

  • Guideline Implementation: Why Don't We Do It? ****

  • What the HIPAA Transactions and Code Set Standards Will Mean for Your Practice ****

  • Anticoagulation for AF: RCTs versus clinical practice *****

  • When practicing medicine feels more like labor than a labor of love, take steps to heal the healer... ****

  • Downloading Applications for Your PDA ****

  • Quality of Cochrane reviews: assessment of sample from 1998 *****

  • EBM in General Practice - The need for skills teaching and easily assimilated digests of evidence *****

  • Changing physician behavior what does it take? ****

  • Medical Files/Applications For PDA ****

  • A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines ****

  • Health information for the developing world: from desert to garden ****

  • How a Palm-Top Computer Can Help You at the Point of Care ****

  • Developing a rapid source of advice for GPs ****

  • Why are doctors so unhappy? *****

  • Which guidelines can we trust? *****

  • Addressing Multiple Problems in the Family Practice Office Visit ****

  • Electronic Medical Records: 10 Questions I Didn't Know to Ask ****

  • Underuse of Coronary Revascularization Procedures in Patients Considered Appropriate Candidates for Revascularization ****

  • The practice of clinical medicine as an art and as a science ****

  • Electronic Medical Records: The FPM Vendor Survey ****

  • Systematic reviews from astronomy to zoology: myths and misconceptions ****

  • Family medicine, 2012 ****

  • Using Web-Based Patient Communication ****

  • A Palm-Top Computer in Every Practice? ****

  • Medical ethics - Recent advances ****

  • Randomized, Controlled Trials, Observational Studies, and the Hierarchy of Research Designs ****

  • Will Evidence-Based Practice Help Span Gulf Between Medicine and Law? *****

  • Systematic review of studies of patient satisfaction with telemedicine *****

  • Overcoming Compassion Fatigue ****

  • Interactive, but not didactic, continuing medical education is effective in changing physician performance - Review ****

  • Practitioners of evidence based care ****

  • Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet ****

  • Shopping around the internet today and tomorrow: towards the millennium of cybermedicine ****

  • Safe health care: are we up to it? ****

  • Practicing in the New Millennium: Do You Have What It Takes?****

  • The specialist of the discipline of general practice ****

  • Changes in the Scope of Care Provided by Primary Care Physicians ****

  • Netprints: the next phase in the evolution of biomedical publishing ****

  • Information in practice - National electronic Library for Health ****

  • Using Standardized Admit Orders to Improve Inpatient Care****

  • Universities without walls: evolving paradigms in medical education ****

  • Revalidation is the answer ****

  • Helping patients access high quality health information ****

  • Deep learning? ****

  • Reducing the Risk of Malpractice Claims****

  • Differing views on the clash of family practice styles. Is there a solution?****

  • Specialty of Family Practice as a Career ****

  • Is Your Performance Data Online Yet?****

  • Moving beyond journals: the future...****

  • Learning from complaints about general practitioners ****

  • Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses sometimes informative, usually misleading ****

  • When doctors might kill their patients****

  • Making sense of testing ****

  • How doctors use tests *****

  • Experiences with "rapid appraisal" in primary care *****

  • Sharing decisions with patients: is the information good enough? *****

  • Analysing talk in clinical practice ****

  • Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997 ****

  • How to get a grant funded *****

  • Ethical dilemma - Retrieving semen from a dead patient *****

  • "Healthy People 2010": national health objectives for the United States *****

  • Best available truth ***** - don't miss it!

  • Being a modern pharmaceutical company ****

  • How to Select medical students ****

  • The importance of theories in health care *****

  • Guidelines in general practice: the new Tower of Babel? *****

  • Where do GPs get evidence-based information? *****

  • Implementing research findings in developing countries *****

  • Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings *****

  • Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice *****

  • Finding information on clinical effectiveness *****

  • Technology-enabled education*****

  • Table of NUMBER NEEDED TO TREAT-we were waiting for this...*****

  • Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat *****

  • Half of all doctors are below average *****

  • Whose priorities? Listening to users and the public *****

  • Matching demand and supply fairly and efficiently *****


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    CLINICAL GUIDELINES

  • Using clinical guidelines *****

  • Legal and political considerations of clinical practice guidelines *****

  • Developing guidelines *****

  • Clinical guidelines - Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines *****

  • Clinical guidelines - the hidden costs *****

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