Evidence-Based Medicine​

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     After you have established a firm foundation of the basics of your chosen specialty, you're ready to develop regular habits to stay up to date on the newest research. Evidence-based medicine is the basis of high-quality patient care, but it can seem overwhelming to try to keep up with the ever-growing body of research. There are countless journals, and it would be time-consuming to search them regularly.

     So how does one go about navigating the vast ocean of available data? Registering for email alerts is a simple way to get notified when there are new publications. With a quick skim through the article titles to see if anything is relevant, followed by a review of the abstract/ article itself, you can be on the cutting edge of the latest information in your field. Several require individual registration, but it's a very simple and quick process. Many journals require a subscription, often available through your medical school or hospital library. If you are military, you have access to AMEDD Virtual Library (abundant medical resource collection). Thankfully, three publishers (LWW Wolters Kluwer, Springer and Elsevier) have centralized their journals, so you can quickly subscribe to several journals [these journals are designated by L, S or E].

 

​Medicine and Critical Care

• Journal of the American Medical Association

• New England Journal of Medicine

• Intensive Care Medicine​

• Critical Care Medicine (L)

• Current Opinions in Critical Care (L)

• Journal of Intensive Care (S)

• Critical Care (S)

• Journal of Critical Care (E)

• Critical Care Clinics (E)

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Surgery

• ​World Journal of Surgery

• World Journal of GI Surgery

• ​​JAMA Surgery

• J Gastrointestinal Surg

• Advances in Surgery

• Annals of Surgery (L)

• Annals of Surgery Open (L)

• BMC Surgery (S)

• Surgery (E)

• American Journal of Surgery (E)

• Journal of the American College of Surgeons (E)

• Surgical Clinics of North America (E)

• Advances in Surgery (E)