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Keeping Up with the Literature: Strategies for Busy People

Keeping Up with the Literature: Strategies for Busy People. Sports Rounds March 12, 2009. Harsh Reality. Training Room. OR. Clinic. Lectures. Family. Eat?. Sleep?. Exercise?. 24 Hours. Travel. Classwork. Research. Games. Practice. Teaching. Personal Hygiene?. Social Life.

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Keeping Up with the Literature: Strategies for Busy People

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  1. Keeping Up with the Literature: Strategies for Busy People Sports Rounds March 12, 2009

  2. Harsh Reality Training Room OR Clinic Lectures Family Eat? Sleep? Exercise? 24 Hours Travel Classwork Research Games Practice Teaching Personal Hygiene? Social Life Administrative Tasks

  3. The Problem

  4. Even if we select < 10%

  5. How do you do it?

  6. 4 Primary Tasks • Finding Important Papers • Organizing the material • Consuming the material • Retaining the material

  7. Efficient Ways to Stay Up on What’s New (Finding it) • My NCBI • eTOC • Share the Dirty Work • Visit the Ortho Library on a Monthly Basis

  8. My NCBI • NCBI = National Center for Biotechnology Information • Division of NIH & the National Library of Medicine • Administrates the PUBMED… system

  9. My NCBI • My NCBI is a place where you have a unique account to save your searches • Offers a service that lets you know when new articles come available related to one of your searches • Can search on topics, people, journals… • Also has two bibliography services

  10. eTOC • Electronic Table of Contents • Nearly all journals/publishers have them • Can sign up with one stop shopping with major publishers • Get an email when the journal is published (in print… online earlier)

  11. Takes you to the journal site; must have access or then go to Hardin / PubMed

  12. Share the Dirty Work • Take turns compiling a list of recent papers that you feel are important • A group of 4 to 8, only need to search once every month or two if weekly or 1-2 times per year if monthly • Provide links to papers

  13. Visit the Ortho Library • Large number of journals • Can scan TOCs pretty quickly if visit monthly • Identify papers of interest • Use PubMed if available online

  14. Organization • Reading Folder (pdfs or links) • My NCBI collection • E-Mail Folder for my NCBI or eTOC mailings with hits of interest • Endnote/Refworks • Print & file it

  15. Organization • Set aside time • 5 AM… get something done prior to checking your email • Have a paper in your briefcase, backpack… whatever for times when you are forced to wait

  16. Consuming the Material • Read the Abstract • Glance at Figures • Read the Conclusions paragraph

  17. Consuming the Material • Read the Abstract • Last Paragraph of the Introduction • Scan methods, results topically • Figures & Tables • Read first paragraph(s) of Discussion • Scan topical sentences of Discussion • Read Conclusions Paragraph(s)

  18. Retaining What You Read • Use it • Share it (discussion with colleague, mentor, team, journal club) • Develop a Reading Journal (i.e, annotated bibliography) • OneNote • EndNote/RefWorks

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