The October 15 issue of JAMA contains a commentary on the article on EBM published in 1992. Both are available free online.
Montori VM, Guyatt GH. Progress in evidence-based medicine. JAMA. 2008 Oct 15;300(15):1814-6.
In 1992 JAMA published an article by the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group focusing on the role of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in medical education.1 [...]
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Just published in Cephalalgia [subscription required]:
Steiner TJ. Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry–Report and Recommendations of the Ethics Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia. 2008 Sep;28 Suppl 3:1-25.
Preface: These recommendations, the second set developed for the International Headache Society (IHS) by its Ethics Subcommittee, evolved over [...]
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About year ago I wrote a post entitled Micronations, which included a description of Sealand. Because that post has received a large number of hits, I thought you all might be interested in hearing about the The Seasteading Institute:
Seasteading means to create permanent dwellings on the ocean – homesteading the high seas. A seastead, like [...]
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From the August 2008 issue of Postgraduate Medical Journal:
Leach DC. Changing education to improve patient care. Postgrad Med J 2008 Aug;84(994):437-41.
Abstract: Health professionals need competencies in improvement skills if they are to contribute usefully to improving patient care. Medical education programmes in the USA have not systematically taught improvement skills to residents (registrars in [...]
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JCEHP Medical Education
