RSS Feeds for Medical Education Journals

RSS feeds enable us to browse recent issues of journals through our own desktops.  Actually, you can subscribe to RSS feeds for many kinds of materials, including journals, blogs, Twitter accounts and news services. You can even set up RSS feeds to PubMed searches in the new PubMed. Check out this feed to a search on physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.

Definition: Really Simple Syndication (formerly Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary), a newsfeed technology  Read more definitions See also Journals: Medical Education

• Academic Medicine
• Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory & Practice
• BMC Medical Education
• Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
• Medical Education
• Medical Teacher
• Teaching and Learning in Medicine

The new, improved PubMed

 

On September 30, NCBI mounted the preview site for the redesigned PubMed. When I first looked at it, I thought they had omitted some key resources like the MeSH and Journals Databases. But I think I entered the site just as they were putting it up, and today, on October 1, there are some great features on the site.

Check out this record:  http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17142167

The default display is now Abstract, with links to the MeSH terms/Publication Types and LinkOut directly below each record. I had heard a rumour that they were going to eliminate the Single Citation Matcher, but apparently there was an uproar among librarians (a terrifying thought) and the feature was retained. There is a simple search and an Advanced Search, and links to the PubMed Tools and More Resources are right on the home page. I think this is an improvement on the current site, where the only way to see MeSH terms is to use the Citation Display. This was not intuitive, and now all users will be able to view the MeSH terms easily.

Read more about the redesign in the September-October 2009 NLM Technical Bulletin.

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