Twenty Minutes On KEEPING UP TO DATE Lynn Dunikowski

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Twenty Minutes On KEEPING UP TO DATE
Lynn Dunikowski

• Manitoba College of Family Physicians
• 48th Annual Scientific Assembly April 6-8,
  2006
  

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Four ways to keep up to date

• Set your home page
• Google Health News
• A good blog
• Send yourself e-mail
• Newsletters and alerts
• Medline literature searches
• Electronic tables of contents
• RSS Feeds
• Podcasts

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Health News
Set your home page
Google/Health News
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How to find a blog?

• Blog weblog
• regularly updated page with time stamps
  (usually) most recent posts first
  
• Go to Google more Blog Searchhttp//www.googl
  e.ca/blogsearch?hlen

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http//www.kevinmd.com/blog/
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Send yourself e-mail

• Newsletters
• Alerts
• Regularly updated literature searches
• Electronic tables of contents

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Newsletters

• Clinical
• InfoPOEMS
• MD Consult
• Special interest topics
• Bulletin on Innovation in Health
  Serviceshttp//kuuc.chair.ulaval.ca/english/index
  .php
  
• Association
• Commercial
• LexiDrugs, Palm Store

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Alerts

• Google News Alerts http//www.google.ca/alerts?hl
  en
  
• BMJ Updates http//bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.as
  p
  

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How to Subscribe to BMJ Updates

• Free
• Evidence-based ratings of clinical relevance
  newsworthiness
  
• Tailored to your interest profile
• http//bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp

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BMJ Updates in your e-mail
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Further links to abstracts and sometimes full text
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Regularly Updated Literature Searches

• PubMed Alerts http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q
  uery.fcgi?DBpubmed
  
• Alerts from other databases
• e.g. OVID, EMBASE, Web of Science
• on journals, topics, authors, articles that have
  cited an article
  

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How to get My NCBI and PubMed Alerts

• Need My NCBI account first
• Free from US National Library of Medicine
• Cubby hole to store searches
• Instructions and a flash demohttp//www.ncbi.nlm
  .nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?ridhelppubmed.section.pubm
  edhelp.My_NCBI
  

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How to get My NCBI and PubMed Alerts

• Run your search in PubMed http//www.pubmed.gov/
• Search on subjects, authors, journals, some
  combination
  
• Save the search
• Fill in search form

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Save Search
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Electronic Tables of Contents

• Dont always have to subscribe
• CMAJ http//www.cmaj.ca/subscriptions/etoc.shtml
• NEJM https//secure.nejm.org/ecom/register/promo/
  lp1ETOC5315.aspx?promoONFLNR13
  
• Highwire Press http//highwire.stanford.edu/custo
  mize/
  

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Tables of Contents of many journals
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RSS Feeds

• What are RSS feeds?
• Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, RDF
  Site Summary
  
• Technology allows dissemination of regularly
  changing web content
  
• Video tutorial (3.5 min.) http//reviews.cnet.com/
  4520-10088_7-5143656.html
  

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RSS Feeds Readers

• Need a feed reader or news aggregator
• Standalone, e.g. Awasu
• Some readers work within browser
• Some readers are web based, e.g.
• Bloglines

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Standalone RSS Reader

• Review at Cnet www.cnet.com
• http//reviews.cnet.com/Awasu/4505-10088_7-3097373
  4-2.html?tagnav
  

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Web based Reader

• Bloglines
• http//www.bloglines.com/

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Where to find RSS Feeds

• Websites with an RSS or XML logo
• MedicineNets list of feeds http//www.medicinenet
  .com/rss/article.htm
  
• CBC http//www.cbc.ca/rss/
• Associations, Journals, Databases

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Set up an RSS feed in PubMed
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Podcasts

• Audio video programs over the Internet
• Uses RSS technology
• Subscribe regularly download new files to iPod,
  MP3 player, or computer
  

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Podcasts

• Need software most is free
• iTunes (for Mac PC)
• iPodder (for Windows 2000/XP)
• IPodderX (for Mac)

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Podcasts

• Whats in a podcast?
• CME lectures, articles, interviews
• News, Music
• Convenient when youre driving or on the
  treadmill
  

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Where to find Podcasts

• Access Medicine
• http//books.mcgraw-hill.com/podcast/acm/
• CBC http//www.cbc.ca/podcasting/
• Medical Podcasts by Doctors
• http//www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?art
  iclekey47403
  
• NEJM http//content.nejm.org/misc/podcast.shtml
• Podcast.net http//www.podcast.net/show/13758

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Thanks! Please send questions/comments to
Canadian Library of Family Medicine
clfm_at_uwo.ca