Evidence-Based Medicine?!... What for?

Autor: Peláez Luna Mario

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To quote Sir William Osler’s essay The Student Life, ‘‘The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course.. . ..’’ After graduation, physicians face different challenges; one of them is to offer the best available management tom their patients. In order to accomplish this, doctors must keep their knowledge updated. Good intentions are not enough; every year hundreds of journals publish thousands of manuscripts. Such a large amount of available information might produce anxiety or even apathy, not only due to our human incapability to read, memorize, and integrate every single journal or article that is published, but also because for many physicians, it is extremely difficult to select quality research, to interpret, and to apply such new knowledge to everyday cases. This is probably one of the many reasons why keeping medical knowledge up to date has become an exhausting battle.

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2013-06-06   |   496 visitas   |   Evalua este artículo 0 valoraciones

Vol. 77 Núm.4. Octubre-Diciembre 2012 Pags. 157-158 Rev Gastroenterol Mex 2012; 77(4)