I am a medical student, and I do not attend lectures. Given the sheer volume of information medical students are expected to learn (or memorize for examination purposes), attending a lecture can be very inefficient. Obviously, not all students share my habits, but anecdotal evidence (of my peers in medical programs across North America) suggests that a significant proportion of students (if given the option) do not attend lectures in person. Most students read the instructor’s slides (to become familiar with the learning objectives, again for examination purposes), and listen to audio or video recordings of the lectures (often at 2x normal playback speed) in the weeks leading up to an exam. Continue reading Diatribe on Medical Education
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JoMI featured (in Chinese!) on the Far Eastern Memorial Library page
Far Eastern Memorial is a research and teaching hospital located in Taiwan, with a mission of being “patients’ first choice medical center.”
JoMI Reviewed in Doody’s Collection Development Monthly
Doody’s Collection Development Monthly, the renowned reviewer of healthcare information, has published a great review of JoMI in their August newsletter by UCSF Library’s education and information consultant for medicine, Evans Whitaker, MD, MLIS.
JoMI Featured By M.G.H. Treadwell Library
Treadwell Library, the health sciences library for the Massachusetts General Hospital community, is currently featuring JoMI on their front page.
JoMI is Available through EBSCO
JoMI is now in the EBSCO catalog and is available for subscription through EBSCO journal services.
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JoMI receives ISSN number from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has issued JoMI an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) number: ISSN 2373-6003.
What does this mean? We are now officially a serial, and not the sort you eat.
JoMI is Now Available through Basch
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JoMI is Available through Harrassowitz
Per request from one of our customers, JoMI is now available through Harrassowitz (www.harrassowitz.de), a subscription agent based out of Wiesbaden in Germany. Harrassowitz started out as an antiquarian bookseller in Leipzig in 1872 and acquired their first American customer, Harvard University, in 1882. Harrassowitz offer full subscription services to all scholarly journals (About Harrassowitz).
JoMI Publishes Dr. Matthew Provencher, Chief of Sports Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
JoMI has just published a new video article by Dr. Matthew Provencher, Chief of Sports Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Medical Director of the New England Patriots.
The video article covers in detail a procedure to resurface the cartilage of the knee for a patient with a condition called Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD).
Matthew Provencher, MD
Chief, Sports Medicine Division
Massachusetts General Hospital