reading the journals

[ckent]

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Does anyone out there actually read the journals? I get JAMA every other week or so, and I have yet to read one issue cover to cover. I usually don't even open it to be honest, just throw it in my pile of JAMA's that I've never read. When I do "read" articles, I just read the abstract for the conclusion. I've actually been able to come off as being "up to date" to some of my attendings too, because I read medical articles in news websites like ABCnews. Sure, they do present the information in a sensationalized format, but the articles they choose to feature are usually the articles that attendings ask about and they usually have enough info in the articles to answer pimp questions. I just feel like I've got enough to learn without going through the new stuff that hasn't made it in the text books. Am I a bad medical student?

 

[Boomer]

Try www.medjet.net (I think it's .net). You can subscribe to whatever journals you want to, they send you an email with links to the abstracts, and you can read several abstracts in one sitting. It works pretty well for me.