New Education Guides; New Chapter; JAMAevidence is Now Athens-Compliant!

July 2011 Newsletter JAMAevidence - Using Evidence to Improve Care NEW EDUCATION GUIDES Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience This groundbreaking resource offers expert guidance and carefully reviewed evidence on caring for patients at the end of life. New Education Guides Complexities in Prognostication in Advanced Cancer Caring for the Child With Cancer at the Close of Life NEW CHAPTER The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis The ultimate guide to the evidence-based clinical encounter. New Chapter: Low Back Pain, Disabling View the JAMAevidence site tour, a flash demo that highlights interactive features of the website. This site tour is available to JAMAevidence subscribers and non-subscribers. JAMAevidence offers retrievable institutional user statistics and MARC 21 records. JAMAevidence also offers flexible access for both in-network and remote users via IP authentication, Athens authentication, referral URL, and/or user name and password. THE CUSTOM SYLLABUS The Custom Syllabus gives users unprecedented options for tailoring JAMAevidence content to the unique needs of an institution teaching evidence-based medicine to different audiences. The Custom Syllabus enables subscribers to: Pick multiple administrators at an institution who will create and monitor courses and topics Build topics using chapters or sections from the Users' Guides and The Rational Clinical Examination texts, Education Guides, Worksheets, and other tools on the site Assign topics to groups of learners, and track their progress through a robust reporting feature Publish topics to the Shared Curricula, for use by other JAMAevidence subscribers For more information or to activate the JAMAevidence Custom Syllabus for your institution, contact Michael Crumsho at Michael_Crumsho@mcgraw-hill.com. CURRENT PODCAST Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD discusses the clinical examination for cardiac tamponade. View all podcasts Education Guides The Education Guides are provided as both online slideshows (tailored for individual use) and as downloadable PowerPoint files (for group presentations, full-screen viewing, and printing). JAMAevidence subscribers are welcome to use the presentations for educational and personal use. Now find FREE sample Education Guides, with Speaker's Notes, to share with your colleagues available from the About JAMAevidence page and the JAMAevidence Library Resource Center. View sample slideshow from Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. View sample slideshow from The Rational Clinical Examination. GLOSSARY UPDATES Aura, Migraine, acephalgic , Migraine, classic , Retinal detachment , Slitlamp examination, Traube space , Visual acuity , Visual field, Vitreous detachment , Vitreous hemorrhage, Waddell nonorganic signs GLOSSARY UPDATES Top Searched Terms in Glossary systematic review , randomized controlled trial, meta-analysis, clinical prediction/decision rules , sensitivity Mobile view on JAMAevidence is available! The JAMAevidence mobile view features a portion of the site's content optimized for the unique size and speed constraints of mobile browsers. The following content is available in this view: - "Quick Reference" pocket cards from Users' Guides to the Medical Literature - "Make the Diagnosis" sections from The Rational Clinical Examination To access this version of the site, you must log in using a personal profile name and password created at www.jamaevidence.com. If you have not created such a profile, please visit the site on a nonmobile browser, select the "My JAMAevidence" tab, and follow the directions for creating a personal profile. More information is available on www.jamaevidence.com. The JAMAevidence mobile view is optimized for the following smartphones: iPhone original and 3G, BlackBerry 8300 series and higher (default browser only), Google's Android platform, and Palm Treo. The mobile site is available at http://m.jamaevidence.com. RESOURCES Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2e Guyatt/Rennie/Meade/Cook Buy this Book Buy this Book from Amazon.com The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis Simel/Rennie Buy this Book Buy this Book from Amazon.com JAMAevidence provides all the tools students and clinicians need to evaluate and interpret the medical literature and make the best treatment decisions for their patients: Online Education Guide slideshows including teaching points to enhance classroom and conference learning - Also available as downloadable PowerPoints Direct free access to referenced articles from JAMA and the Archives Journals that are cited in Exclusive online-only content including updates to RCE articles and podcasts from the leading minds in evidence-based medicine Core Topics to highlight critical educational concepts across all content types Powerful interactive capabilities, including: Functional calculators and nomograms Question wizards to help users formulate well-built clinical queries Customizable worksheets focusing on critical appraisal skills and mastering the information cycle Custom Syllabus tool that allows instructors to tailor content with their teaching needs Extensive evidence-based medicine glossary Additional Links JAMA JAMA & Archives Journals JAMAevidence Librarian Resource Center Purchase JAMAevidence books AccessMedicine To enter the full site, visit or subscribe to JAMAevidence. back to top About JAMAevidence | Subscriptions/Free Trials | Contact Us | Help | Privacy Notice | Terms of Use | Notice | Additional Credits and Copyright Information | MH Professional Bookstore | About JAMAevidence Books Copyright © 2011 American Medical Association. 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