med students: who reads JAMA?

[Yogi Bear]

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For those current med students, how many of you read JAMA?

CORRECTION: my ratios are off. i.e. 1 issue a month doesn't mean 1/4 of the time if u count it by year....hehe. Basically IGNORE THE FRACTIONS.

 

[idq1i]

I am more of a collector than a reader 🙂 I do try to make time for some of the bigger articles

 

[Jaded Soul]

I just look at the table of contents to see if there's anything related to whatever rotation I'm doing.

 

[Pickle Salt]

they help out with the uneven table leg.

 

[Yogi Bear]

I am more of a collector than a reader 🙂 I do try to make time for some of the bigger articles

lol. anyone know if there are their jama cliff notes available online? i find that i mostly get my health news via googlenews or yahoonews.

 

[dredd]

I hate to admit it, but I'm a big abstract reader. I will read the article if I'm confused about something the abstract says or if it's a controversial article or about something that I'm really interested in.

 

[8744]

JAMA pretty much goes from the mailbox to the trash. Who has time to read it?

 

[ussdfiant]

I will admit that when I finished Epi, I did read a few journal articles. not so much for the content, but more for the fact that I understood what a "prospective randomized triple blinded study" meant! And in that respect p<0.05!

 

[southerndoc]

JAMA pretty much goes from the mailbox to the trash. Who has time to read it?

That's basically what I do. I scan the TOC to see if there is anything interesting. If there is, then I read that article alone. If not, then I usually just read some of the news and such and then it goes to the trash. Same with NEJM.

 

[Gauss]

many times I've kept up with JAMA and NEJM and impressed attendings
I'm glad the rest of you ignore them, makes me look even better

 

[Stinger86]

I only wish I had a table that needed balancing because as it is, it goes from mailbox to trash (after spending about a week on the floor).

 

[idq1i]

medical student: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means.

intern: uses journal as a pillow during nights on call.

resident: would like to read article but eats dinner instead.

chief resident: skips article entirely and reads the classifieds.

junior attending: reads and analyzes entire article in order to pimp medical students.

senior attending: reads abstracts and quotes the literature liberally.

research attending: reads entire article, reanalyzes statistics and looks up all references, usually in lieu of sex.

chief of service: reads references to see if he/she was cited anywhere.

private attending: doesn't buy journals in the first place but keeps an eye open for medical articles that make it into Time or Newsweek.

emeritus attending: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means

author unknown

 

[Gleevec]

medical student: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means.

intern: uses journal as a pillow during nights on call.

resident: would like to read article but eats dinner instead.

chief resident: skips article entirely and reads the classifieds.

junior attending: reads and analyzes entire article in order to pimp medical students.

senior attending: reads abstracts and quotes the literature liberally.

research attending: reads entire article, reanalyzes statistics and looks up all references, usually in lieu of sex.

chief of service: reads references to see if he/she was cited anywhere.

private attending: doesn't buy journals in the first place but keeps an eye open for medical articles that make it into Time or Newsweek.

emeritus attending: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means

author unknown

lol research attending

 

[8744]

many times I've kept up with JAMA and NEJM and impressed attendings
I'm glad the rest of you ignore them, makes me look even better

*cough* *cough* *gunner* *cough*

 

[ak1978]

medical student: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means.

intern: uses journal as a pillow during nights on call.

resident: would like to read article but eats dinner instead.

chief resident: skips article entirely and reads the classifieds.

junior attending: reads and analyzes entire article in order to pimp medical students.

senior attending: reads abstracts and quotes the literature liberally.

research attending: reads entire article, reanalyzes statistics and looks up all references, usually in lieu of sex.

chief of service: reads references to see if he/she was cited anywhere.

private attending: doesn't buy journals in the first place but keeps an eye open for medical articles that make it into Time or Newsweek.

emeritus attending: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means

author unknown

actually, this was part of an article written by Howard J. Bennett entitled "Keeping up with the literature", (part of the "a piece of of mind" series), JAMA. 1992;267:920 and called "Bennett's classification for reading medical articles"

 

[Doc Ivy]

JAMA pretty much goes from the mailbox to the trash. Who has time to read it?

I don't have time to read it... but the pictures are so pretty, it seems a shame to throw them out. My apartment won't be able to hold four years worth though.

 

[Samoa]

That's basically what I do. I scan the TOC to see if there is anything interesting. If there is, then I read that article alone. If not, then I usually just read some of the news and such and then it goes to the trash. Same with NEJM.

yep, me too

 

[yeti00]

I like the pictures. Especially when they put naked ladies on the cover.

 

[ItsNotATumor]

I read the last page and use it to impress the clinical faculty... does that count?

 

[ZOT! ZOT!]

I read the last page and use it to impress the clinical faculty... does that count?

Is JAMA required? Why does everyone have it? I think I heard someone mention we get a free subscription once we joing the ranks of Medical Students... is that true?

 

[Samoa]

You get a free subscription when you join AMA.

 

[ZOT! ZOT!]

You get a free subscription when you join AMA.

And how much does that cost? 😕

 

[Samoa]

It was $85. (I love Quicken! Makes finding stuff like this SOO easy.)

 

[Blade28]

Sure do, since I get JAMA for free.