Christmas 2008 Research from the BMJ

     The British Medical Journal continues in 2008 its annual tradition of publishing important research related to Christmas.   See also:  BMJ Christmas Issues and read articles going back to 1995.
Below are this year’s offerings, available free online (because they are research, after all).     2008 Seasonal Fayre ;  2008 Christmas Podcasts
Head and neck injury risks in heavy [...]

Evidence-informed Health Policy: a series from Implementation Science

Here is a new series from Implementation Science, a BioMed Central journal (Open Access):
John N Lavis, Andrew D Oxman, Ray Moynihan, Elizabeth J Paulsen. Evidence-informed health policy 1 – Synthesis of findings from a multi-method study of organizations that support the use of research evidence. Implementation Science 2008, 3:53 (17 December 2008)
Conclusions: This synthesis of [...]

A controlled trial of the effectiveness of Internet continuing medical education

Just published online in BMC Medicine [Open Access]:
Casebeer L, Engler S, Bennett N, Irvine M, Sulkes D, Deslauriers M, Zhang S. A controlled trial of the effectiveness of Internet continuing medical education. BMC Med 2008 Dec 4;6(1):37. [Epub ahead of print] PDF Version
BACKGROUND: The internet has had a strong impact on how physicians access information [...]

Perspectives on Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Health Care through Lifelong Learning [Macy Foundation]

A new article just published in the December 2008 issue of Chest provides yet another perspective on the Macy Foundation report:
Leach DC, Fletcher SW. Perspectives on Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Health Care through Lifelong Learning [Macy Foundation]. Chest 2008 Dec;134(6):1299-303. [subscription required]
In November 2007, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation convened a conference [...]

2008 CME Congress: presentations, abstracts from JCEHP 2008;28(S1)

   The 2008 CME Congress was held in Vancouver from May 29 – 31. The conference organizers have kindly made available the PowerPoint presentations of some of the plenary speakers. (The documents are in PDF format. And be patient, they download rather slowly.) The slides are not as compelling as are the words of excellent [...]