Need ideas of where to read up on the latest medical education research? Have a brilliant manuscript describing your curricular innovations but not sure where to publish? Need to find multimedia resources for medical education? Looking for curricular objectives to help guide your medical education project?
Look no further than the Medical Education Subject Guide available on the UCSF Library's website. The direct URL to this guide is at http://guides.library.ucsf.edu/meded.
OR you can navigate from the Library's website from the Classes, Consulting, & Help dropdown menu by selecting the Subject Guides listing. The Medical Education guide is listed alphabetically on the complete guides page.
(1) Browse the yellow tabs to explore the Library's resources available to assist in your medical education research needs.
(2) Read the latest published medical education research by UCSF medical educators.
(3) Download PDF tipsheets summarizing literature searching tips for how to search PubMed and other key databases geared to medical education.
(4) Contact me via chat, email, or phone from the right margin of the guide.
Please feel free to send me any suggestions you have for content you'd like to see on this subject guide. Bookmark this site today! http://guides.library.ucsf.edu/meded
Showing posts with label journals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journals. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Friday, November 21, 2008
Using Eigenfactor to Measure Journal Ranking
Eigenfactor is a free tool developed by Carl Bergstrom's lab at the University of Washington. It measures the impact of a journal based on the number of citations as well as journal pricing. They describe themselves as:
(1)
(2) Eigenfactor.orgTM reports journal prices as well as citation influence.
(3) Eigenfactor.orgTM contains 115,000 reference items.
Eigenfactor.org not only ranks scholarly journals in the natural and social sciences, but also lists newsprint, PhD theses, popular magazines and more. In so doing, it more fairly values those journals bridging the gap between the social and natural sciences.
(4) Scores adjust for citation differences across disciplines.
(5) Scores rely on 5-year citation data.
(6) Scores are completely free and completely searchable.
Read more detailed explanations at http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm
I especially like their visual mapping search display that animates the relevancy of topics and journals. You can get to this interface by clicking on the "mapping" tab and choosing the "interactive browser" option. In the right side of each visual map result, the top ten journals in that field are listed. Clicking on a journal title will reveal its Eigenfactor score.
The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a paid database from ISI Web of Knowledge that the Eigenfactor is comparing itself to, but they claim with added value. View the publisher's tutorial of how to search JCR. (Note: click on the white arrow in the bottom green menu bar to forward to the next page of the tutorial).
Read a more scholarly description of the Eigenfactor at http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/07/23/eigenfactor/
Sunday, March 30, 2008
NEJM Audio Interviews with Authors
Here's yet another cool multimedia feature of the New England Journal of Medicine - In the middle of the right column on their homepage (http://nejm.org), there is a box titled Recent NEJM Audio.
- The first link takes you to interviews with authors of recent articles.
- A link to the full-text article being discussed is available on the interview page. (NOTE: you must be connected to the campus network to access the articles.)
- The interview can also be downloaded to listen to on your mp3 player.
A full archive of all interviews is also available.
NEJM Audio Summaries
No time to read the New England Journal of Medicine? No problem. The NEJM has audio summaries of the latest issue available on their homepage (http://nejm.org).
Look for the Audio Summary link. The summary runs about 20 minutes.
You can listen to the summary on your computer or download them as an audio file to listen to later on your mp3 player. Wow - what'll they think of next?!
Look for the Audio Summary link. The summary runs about 20 minutes.
You can listen to the summary on your computer or download them as an audio file to listen to later on your mp3 player. Wow - what'll they think of next?!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
JoVE - a video journal
Hang on to your hats...there's a journal that is completely video based and online!
JoVE is a fantastic collection of short videos that go over basic and advanced laboratory techniques. I highly recommend this resource for anyone who is doing bench research or just interested in finding out what goes on in research labs.
Pop some popcorn and sit back and prepare to be educated!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
"Medical Education Online" journal
The Medical Education Online journal is published solely on the web and does not have a print subscription. A very nice advantage of this journal is that you can access all of its articles for free. Now you can't beat that price!
Explore the options in the green menu bar. You can browse the issues under "Articles", access letters to the editor, book reviews, and resources. Some great tools available in this "Resources" section are:
Also take a look at the articles published in 2007. There is a new feature below each article, "View the comments on this article" below the abstract. See what other readers have to say about the article.
Monday, July 2, 2007
How to Subscribe to a Journal's Table of Contents Using PubMed
It's super convenient to have PubMed email you the latest table of contents of a journal that you want to track. This beats going to the publisher's site every month to check on what's in the latest issue.
Follow these quick steps:
(1) Connect to the Single Citation Matcher link in the left menu bar of PubMed
(2) Start to type in the journal title you want to track & select the title that matches & hit "Go"
(3) On the next screen, click on the Save Search link that's to the right of the search box
(4) Sign into your My NCBI account (you can set one up for free under Register)
(5) Select Yes to receive email updates
(6) Set the Maximum number of records to send to 100
Follow these quick steps:
(1) Connect to the Single Citation Matcher link in the left menu bar of PubMed
(2) Start to type in the journal title you want to track & select the title that matches & hit "Go"
(3) On the next screen, click on the Save Search link that's to the right of the search box
(4) Sign into your My NCBI account (you can set one up for free under Register)
(5) Select Yes to receive email updates
(6) Set the Maximum number of records to send to 100
Friday, June 29, 2007
Popular Medical Education Journals
Here are some of the most widely read journals in the field of medical education. These are ideal journals to browse online (requires campus or VPN connection) to learn more about hot topics in medical education. These also give you ideas of where you might want to publish your research one day.
TIP: Use PubMed to have the table of contents of these journals sent to your email or RSS reader.
JAMA (September Medical Education issues - 2006 -- 2005 -- 2004 )
Medical Education - also check out their May & Nov issues for the "Really Good Stuff" section
Teaching & Learning in Medicine
Other medical specialty journals:
Advances in Health Sciences Education
TIP: Use PubMed to have the table of contents of these journals sent to your email or RSS reader.
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