Archive for 'Research' Category
How to Read for Research Purposes During Medical School
. . When you’re researching, think about the following ten things before you accept what you’re reading: 1. Who wrote the piece 3. The methodology 4. Any obvious bias 5. References & sources used 9. Other works by the same author(s) . 10 things to check when reading for research purposes [The University Blog] . [...]
Zotero – Next Generation Reference Manager
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Feaures include: Word and OpenOffice Integration – Plugins for Word and OpenOffice make it easy to drop in references on the fly Browse from Mobile Devices – Even without Zotero, you can access your collection from any web [...]
Getting Published with the Help of your Medical Librarian
Dr. Schofer gives good reasons to build a relationship with your friendly, neighborhood librarian… you can contact your medical library, usually via e-mail, and get them to do literature searches for you. Usually they’ll just e-mail you PDF copies of the articles they find. If you have a research project you are thinking about doing, [...]
Avoid Common Pitfalls When Undertaking New Medical Research Projects
Rushing and overloading yourself in science is common, even normal… Never. Rush. The beginning. Ever. Taking a step back to thoroughly assess the viability of your project… might actually be the one thing that can steer you clear from failure. 2. Read critically. It always pays off to spend some time delimiting the boundaries of [...]
Create Professional-Quality Flowcharts with Gliffy
Create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, & technical drawings with Gliffy, the online diagram editor. Terrific for poster presentations and manuscript figures. Example:
Search the Medical Web – ScienceRoll
ScienceRoll Medical Search Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine. The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community.
Forum Filter: IMG Taking a Research Year Before Residency
Derm83: I am an IMG applying to Radiology next year but I’d like to do 1-2 years or research so that I can be more competitive. I’d like to start contacting programs for research but I’m wondering what things I should be looking at in a program: 1. A program that takes a substantial number [...]
PubMed for Mobile Devices
bookmark this slim PubMed interface on your mobile device for on-the-go literature searches. Also available: PICO – Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome search askMEDLINE – free-text, natural language search Disease Associations – Search case reports for disease associations PubMed for Handhelds [National Library of Medicine]
Perform Statistical Calculations Online: StatPages.org
StatPages The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources
Medical Podcasts
Here are the best medical podcasts of the web. It’s safe to consider these low-yield resources during preclinical years. New England Journal of Medicine Audio Interviews podcast feed and “NEJM This Week” article summaries. American College of Cardiology Conversations with Experts Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts A weekly podcast looking at the top medical stories of [...]