Accreditation, certification, and licensure: How six general competencies are influencing medical education and patient care

  The article below was recently published in the Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline. This is the journal of the Federation of State Medical Boards. Copies of the article may be ordered from the journal Web site.
Mazmanian PE, Galbraith R, Miller SH, Schyve PM, Kopelow M, Thompson JN, Aparicio A, Davis DA, Kahn NB [...]

Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems

  The study below was just published in the February 13 issue of JAMA [subscription required].
Read about the study in MedPage Today and in Medical News Today.
Martin BI, Deyo RA, Mirza SK, Turner JA, Comstock BA, Hollingworth W et al. Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems. JAMA 2008; 299(6):656-664.
Context: Back and [...]

A survey of rural medical education strategies throughout the medical education continuum in Canada

   This article by Dr. Vernon Curran and colleagues was published in late 2007 in the French journal Cahiers de Sociologie et de Demographie Medicales [full text by subscription]. This issue contains several interesting articles on the state of health care in rural Canada.
Curran VR, Fleet L, Pong RW, Bornstein S, Jong M, Strasser RP, [...]

The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sport medicine

  The study from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, was published in the January 2008 issue of Sociology of Health & Illness [full text by subscription]:
Theberge N. The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sportmedicine. Sociol Health Illness 2008 Jan;30(1):19-34.
This article examines the integration of chiropractors into multi-disciplinary healthcare teams in [...]

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 [free full text is available]. 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Translating learning into practice: lessons from the practice-based small group learning program (PBSG)

  This article about the Practice-Based Small Group (PBSG) learning program appeared in the September issue of Canadian Family Physician. The program began in 1992 as a collaborative effort between McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP). 3500 physicians across Canada now participate.
Armson H, Kinzie S, Hawes D, Roder [...]