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Links links links. Today we have lots of links to articles and resources you might be interested in. Check em out.
From KevinMD: "Real World Meaningful Use of Health IT for Physicians" This is a nice article talking about the challenges of entering information and documentation, which seems to be getting worse instead of better, even with all the innovations coming to a health system near you.
From Wall Street Journal: "US Faces Shortage of Doctors". Yes, we've all heard about this *cough cough*. In fact, you may recall that ACCP was involved in the workforce shortage paper published in JAMA back in 1999.
Another from KevinMD: "iPad Review for Doctors". There's so much buzz about the iPad, but will it really be a gamechanger? This review points out some of the features that may appeal (or not) to doctors.
Now, how about a bit of controversy?
From MedPageToday's "Movin' Meat" blog: "The Empty Charade of Continuous Certification". This Blogger rakes the ABIM and ABEM over the coals over their Maintenance of Certification (MoC) continuous certification programs. But like it or not, the reality is that MoC is probably here to stay.
Related to that MoC post is an article from the March 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, "American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Program". This is one of NEJM's Clinical Decisions Interactive Features, which includes a case vignette and two opinions about the usefulness of this format for education. What's interesting is the pro/con format where one choice is to enroll in the ABIM MOC program, and the other is to decline. Authors then make their arguments for each choice. At the time of this writing, the polling is running 37% for MOC and 63% against. However, the comments posted are overwhelmingly in favor of MOC, with a number of physicians commenting on how useful it was for them, and how surprised they were that after doing the work, they realized that they did not know as much as they thought they did. My favorite comment: "Re-certfication will ensure that the practitioner is current with the latest evidence based medical literature,which makes for better patient care."
This blog, "It Ain't Rocket Surgery" is intended to help busy health-care professionals find useful online and mobile resources that will enhance their self-education and professional research efforts, or point out important topics of discussion related to online information and content. The blog's title is a Yogi Berra style mash-up of two common phrases, "it ain't brain surgery" and "it ain't rocket science". I hope it will be casual, fun, insightful, and -- most of all -- educational.
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rocketsurgery99: Long-awaited ACCP 9th Antithrombotic Guidelines now available from CHEST. #AT9 http://t.co/s5EpNasR
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