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Three Myths About Peer Review
Started Mar 9
Making a Better Doctor - Role of Humanities in Medical Education?
Started Oct. 27, 2008
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Interested in history and progression of peer review system for academic health/medical education research...great article here:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/three-myths-about-peer-review/2009/03/08
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One recurring frustration in my work focus areas (semantic web and healthcare, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, health tech startups) is the lack of cohesion between computational academic research, bioinformatic research, and startup health/tech a...
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Wikipedia just won't cut it anymore! Although for some clinical subjects, I'll admit that it's OK... but it's not Medline. The education librarians "persuade" them to begin to explore clinical knowledge sources such as Medline, Scopus, Access Medicine, Up to Date and DynaMed, available to them through the library's subscriptions. The librarians work individually or with groups of students to demonstrate how these sources are indexed, how to search them most effectively, how to appraise the research found. As the students progress through their 4 years of graduate medical education (and see more patients), their clinical knowledge base expands and they grow more sophisticated in their use of clinical literature, search strategies and appraisal skills.
The education librarians are there for them at each step in that process; I think it is encouraging for them to know that help is always available from an "informationist" if they ask. Physicians are a more difficult group to reach, as their time is stretched then. They rarely have time to come into the real-world library... although we know from statistics that many of them are using our resources daily electronically.
The reference librarians have done extensive clinical searches for physicians and faculty in preparation for grant proposals, or for difficult clinical/patient care research questions. It is my observation that most physicians know how to search Medline, but they may not have the time or ability to do a search as well as the "informationists"... it is so much easier for them to ask one of us to do the research and send them the results via email.
I have found that once they have used our search services a few times, the doctors find our input quite essential to grant preparation, clinical research and great patient care. They think of the reference librarians as "allies".
Kathleen