Blogs and Listservs in Medical Education

  If you are interested in keeping up with what people are talking about in medical education, here is a selection of blogs and listservs to which you may wish to subscribe:

Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Mailing Lists

The big medical news archive

The Carlat Psychiatry Blog: Supporting the Search for Honesty in Medical Education

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CME as a Bridge to Quality: Leadership, Learning, and Change within the ACCME® System

CME as a Bridge to Quality: Leadership, Learning, and Change within the ACCME® System is a booklet published by the ACCME in January 2008.
From the ACCME Web site:
The booklet is a resource to accompany the plenary session presentation of ACCME Chief Executive, Dr. Murray Kopelow, [see p. 68] at the 34th [sic]  Annual Meeting of [...]

Chiropractors and the risk of stroke: new research from Spine

  On January 19, 2008, the following article was published in the Globe and Mail:
Alphonso, C. Chiropractors don’t raise stroke risk, study says. Globe and Mail; January 19, 2009. The article begins:
A Canadian study indicates there is no increased risk related to chiropractic treatment in the heated debate about whether neck adjustments can trigger a [...]

Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) Without Surgery

   The January-February 2008 issue of The Spine Journal is devoted to the evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain [subscription required]. See the editors’ preface at the bottom of this page.  Journal link    PubMed Records
Introduction:

A supermarket approach to the evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain

A systematic review of low back pain cost of [...]

Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and its Associated Disorders

  The February 15, 2008 supplement of Spine is a special issue on the findings of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders [subscription required].   PubMed records
Read the executive summary:
The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders: Executive Summary by [...]

Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning (Macy Foundation)

   In November 2007 the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation convened a conference to address complex issues concerning continuing education in the health professions. Participants developed the set of conclusions and recommendations found at the end of this Executive Summary:
Chairman’s Summary of the Conference on Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare through Lifelong Learning
Proceedings [...]