maintaining medical knowledge?

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hi,
I'm looking for some tools to help me keep up my knowledge. I'm second year psychiatry and I'd like to keep up on basic internal medicine, primary care, and emergency medicine but I'd prefer not to torture myself with textbooks.
NEJM has a good weekly thing for residents that gets sent every week - it seems like overkill to subscribe just for that. I have UpToDate and find it useful especially on the ward, but I'd like to sign up for cases to be emailed to me, or review articles, or other useful prompts that will help me remember medical stuff that I use sometimes, but less frequently now. Does anyone know of good, free resources? thanks!
 
You should be able to sign up for those NEJM weekly update emails for free. Of course then you have to be able to actually access the articles, right? If your residency program is university-affiliated, it's likely that the university has an institutional subscription to NEJM and so you should be able to access the full NEJM content online from the university network at no cost to you. It even works for me on my VPN from home.

Also, Medscape has halfway decent clinical updates that you can get as a weekly email. Not as quality as NEJM, but decent. And free.

Hope these ideas help.
 
This is good practice for later - when you'll have to keep up with your CME credits.
 
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