Self-Assessment: JCEHP theme issue

  The Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions contains a number of excellent articles on self-assessment [available by subscription only]. Click on the links below to view the PubMed records for each article.
Joan Sargeant. Toward a common understanding of self-assessment (p 1-4)
Ronald M. Epstein, Daniel J. Siegel, Jordan Silberman. [...]

Creating a Collaborative Intervention to Address Disparities in Depression: CME, Quality Improvement, and the Community

  The latest issue (v. 27, Issue S1) of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions is a special supplement addressing disparities in diagnosing and treating depression.  The lead editor and member of the Initiative for Decreasing Disparities in Depression (I3D)* steering committee is Donald E. Moore, Jr, PhD, Director, Division of Continuing Medical Education [...]

Journal of Athletic Training: Open Access journal

  The Journal of Athletic Training is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal, and the official publication of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Inc.
Mission: to enhance communication among professionals interested in the quality of health care for the physically active through education and research in prevention, evaluation, management and rehabilitation of injuries.
Free full text is available [...]

Professionalism in Medicine: theme issue from Academic Medicine

  The November 2007 issue of Academic Medicine is a theme issue entitled Professionalism in Medicine. Selected titles [titles with links are Open Access]:
Professionalism in Medicine;  Viewpoint: Learning Professionalism: A View from the Trenches;  The Journey to Creating a Campus-Wide Culture of Professionalism;  Viewpoint: Professionalism and Humanism Beyond the Academic Health Center;  Viewpoint: Linking Professionalism [...]

Open Medicine

At long last, welcome to the first issue of Open Medicine, launched April 18, 2007. This new open access journal represents a milestone in the independence and academic freedom of medical research publishing. 
From the April 18 2007 edition of The Globe & Mail:
A new open-access general medical journal, published in Canada, is about to be born.
Editors [...]

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine

  This journal is now published by Elsevier, and the June 2007 issue is now online, and the March issue is Open Access. Link to all issues,  now available by subscription.
From the March editorial by editor Claire Johnson:
For the past several years, the editorial staff has been working diligently to make continued and substantial improvements to the journal. For [...]

Relationship-Centered Care

  The January 2006 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine contains the proceedings of a conference entitled Re-Forming Relationships in Health Care: Creating A National Research Agenda for Relationship-Centered Care. Here are the issues abstracts; free full text is available. 
From September 29 to October 1, 2004, the Regenstrief Institute, a free-standing research institute of [...]

Professionalism and medical education: a theme issue

  The July 2006 issue of Clinical Anatomy is a theme issue on professionalism. Here are the abstracts of several of the articles, with links to full text.  PubMed Records
Swick HM. Medical professionalism and the clinical anatomist. Clin Anat 2006; 19(5):393-402.
Abstract: Medical professionalism has become an important issue for medical education and practice. The core [...]

Open Access Journals for Readers of this Blog: a selection

   Updated November 23, 2007
Here is a selection of Open Access journals that may be of interest to readers of this blog.  Some are completely free online, others after one or two years. Most are indexed in either PubMed or the Index to Chiropractic Literature. I am also including in this list several collections of [...]

Advances in researching adult e-learning (November 2006)

  Studies in Continuing Education is a scholarly journal concerned with all aspects of continuing, professional and lifelong learning. A special issue entitled Advances in researching adult e-learning (v. 28, no. 3, November 2006) has just been published. The July issue also focussed on e-learning.(FYI, here are the 2006 ERIC records for this journal.)
 
Contents of the [...]