Medical Journals and Magazines

[shenningdo]

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What medical journals or magazines do you currently read, want to read, or will read in the future as a student doctor?

 

[BaylorGuy]

Most probably JAMA

 

[G0S2]

The Journal and the American Family Physician.

 

[lilmo]

Anyone else have a rather large and heavy stack of unread JAMA's sitting around? After accumulating an embarrasingly enormous collection of medical journals I finally cancelled all my subscriptions, and instead subscribed to something I'll actually read---a fashion magazine. 🙂

 

[erin682]

Anyone else have a rather large and heavy stack of unread JAMA's sitting around? After accumulating an embarrasingly enormous collection of medical journals I finally cancelled all my subscriptions, and instead subscribed to something I'll actually read---a fashion magazine. 🙂

Aaah the giant pile of JAMA's. I get mine through my AMA membership so at least I'm not paying annually to get huge piles of unopened journals. It was kind of exciting when I got my first one. Yeah that wore off fast. My roommate claims she actually looks at them now that she is in her 3rd year. We'll see....

 

[trudub]

New England Journal of Medicine. If nothing else, the case records in the journal are great to help you think through fairly complex clinical problems.

 

[Agent Splat]

Anyone else have a rather large and heavy stack of unread JAMA's sitting around? After accumulating an embarrasingly enormous collection of medical journals I finally cancelled all my subscriptions, and instead subscribed to something I'll actually read---a fashion magazine. 🙂

They go in my guest bathroom. Where nobody goes. Fitting. Because nobody reads them.

 

[Brainsucker]

There's some interesting stuff in JAMA every now and then. There's a section--I forget what it's called--that has abstracts from other AMA journals. There was one about tanners being addicted to sun that I found amusing.

 

[emack]

I often browse:
CMAJ (free with CMA membership)
National Review of Medicine
Medical Post
Stitches

(Hmm... only one of those is actually a journal. Maybe I should aim to be more highbrow...)

 

[deuist]

I read Common Sense, the emergency medicine magazine. Outside of medicine, I stick to Reason, Wired, and The New York Times. The NYT's health section is actually quite good. The authors summarize articles from JAMA and the NEJM. Also, you can get an idea of what your patients are reading in the popular press. "Doctor, doctor, I read this article about a new drug. I need you to prescribe it to me."