The Leaning Tower of JAMA

[felipe5]

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Geeeeez, i need to cancel my 'subscription' to this journal........it seems to come every other day. Now, all I do is look at the cover-art and toss it in the growing stack. Anyone else cancel their subscription?

 

[Chronotropic]

I keep telling myself that I'll read them one day....

 

[ddmo]

I just open it to the contents page, skim through it, and if there is anything that seems interesting (rarely ever), i'll read that article. Otherwise, I add it to the stack. I figure by 4th year I'll be able to build a really cool fort out of them.

 

[twinklz]

Ooh, a fort, thats a good idea. I've been thinking of giving them to my bunnies for chewing fodder!

I don't think I'll ever sit down and read them. But they might look like an impressive collection by the time I actually graduate....impress my patients with the wealth of knowledge I have accumulated 😀

 

[8744]

My lovely and talented wife, with my blessing, automatically diverts JAMA into the garbage can on her way in from picking up the mail.

I try to read at least an hour a day on some medical topic (I am a fourth year) but JAMA is just to nit-picky to hold my interest. It is a lot more productive to read, as I am doing, my Emergency Medicine textbook.

 

[Obedeli]

It was and mostly is bathroom reading. The cover art is cool but we are crammed. The worst automatic journal is American Family Physician which must employ a graphics artist for CNN headlines for every cover page.

 

[erin682]

I gave mine to my parents. It just gives them another way to bring up the fact that their daughter is in med school to their friends. 🙂

 

[rjhtamu]

Is there any way to make them stop sending them to you while still staying in the AMA? I've sent them an email request but they just keep piling them on me.

 

[Yogi Bear]

i got a blue/green '2005 AMA MEMBER" window sticker today...wow...I feel so special. 😎

 

[clkimmey]

i got a blue/green '2005 AMA MEMBER" window sticker today...wow...I feel so special. 😎

i got one too, but i think it's defective. some of the letters are backwards. 😕

 

[Yogi Bear]

i got one too, but i think it's defective. some of the letters are backwards. 😕

hmmm...none of the letters are backwards on mine. you have to peel it off and stick it on a glass surface to see it correct.

 

[sacrament]

JAMA isn't much fun to just sit down and read. NEJM is slightly better for the average med student because the clinical "detective" cases are sort of interesting to go through--although typically they are total zebras and nobody has a goddamn idea what the hell is going on until the pathologist says that he saw purple vibrating Bonker-Ski-Bigkok cells on the toe biopsy.
The latest issue of JAMA has a good review article on management of NSTEMI which, if you're on your medicine rotation like I am, you may be getting pimped on.

 

[rjhtamu]

JAMA isn't much fun to just sit down and read. NEJM is slightly better for the average med student because the clinical "detective" cases are sort of interesting to go through--although typically they are total zebras and nobody has a goddamn idea what the hell is going on until the pathologist says that he saw purple vibrating Bonker-Ski-Bigkok cells on the toe biopsy.
The latest issue of JAMA has a good review article on management of NSTEMI which, if you're on your medicine rotation like I am, you may be getting pimped on.

lol, funny stuff

 

[lilmo]

please save a tree and CANCEL your subscription. you can read most of it online anways (but who has the time or inclination for that?)

 

[Doc Ivy]

please save a tree and CANCEL your subscription. you can read most of it online anways (but who has the time or inclination for that?)

I know, but as someone else said, 4 years worth of JAMA will look really nice on a bookshelf someday-- very distinguished, and a reminder of my medschool days