SAHRI

Colleagues,
    As a resident in the Family Medicine program at UMDNJ-RWJMS, as PGYIIs we had a dedicated 2 week evidence medicine based course that taught us to evaluate literature and determine if it is Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters (POEMS). I would like to suggest some resources below:

1. http://www.sicsebm.org.uk/catmaker.cattips.htm - a great introduction to evaluating articles and making an evidenced based opinion. The evaluation is predicated on using a freeware tool called the CATmaker. CAT stands for Critically Appraised Topic. After discussing with Biren, this may be a potential format that you the collaborator can use to evalate articles relevant to your interest/field of study. The CATmaker allows to output files to HTML, which would make it easy for us to integrate with the future SAHRI website.

2. InfoPOEMs Inc.- can either go there via www.infopoems.com or for those of you in UMDNJ can go through the database link on the main page of the UMDNJ-RWJ libraries home page. For those of you with UMDNJ privileges, I highly suggest that you go through the UMDNJ library and take advantage of InfoPOEMs.com. There you can get an excellent evidence based resource called InfoRetriever. It has the 5 Minute Clinical Consult built into it and other guidelines and clinical calculators. It also includes an E/M and ICD-9 coding tool. UMDNJ has an institutional site license so individuals may download and register InfoRetriever for free. I highly recommend doing so.

I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Kennedy

The purpose of this part of the website is to create a curriculum that we can use for the group.

 Initially, it will be a curriculum for how to read the literature that will help us review the literature.
Then we will create a curriculum for how to perform studies (including RCT, cross sectional studies, case-control) etc.  to ensure that every output from SAHRI affiliated member will be a valid study.

Additional thoughts for education material that will be developed include:

-  Physician handouts
-  Patient handouts (in various languages).

Things we haven't thought of yet. Comments welcome.