A (medical) student’s guide to medical literature site: designed especially for medical students but can be used by anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. Quite useful to those of us wanting to understand for ourselves what science reveals about birth insofar as it has been studied by the medical industry, or community.
“If you are having trouble researching a medical question, or want an easy guide to critical appraisal of journal articles, this is the site for you!”
Some of the features of this site are:
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A Tutorial outlining a simple 4-step approach to reading medical literature
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Search Strategies with links to the best web sites
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A Guide to Critical Appraisal of journal articles with step-by-step explanation of the “User’s Guide approach
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An interactive Glossary with over 150 statistical terms hyperlinked to the text
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Calculators for finding relevant outcome measures from a study
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Student’s Guide Pocket Version to use on your Palm or Pocket PC
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