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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2008

Is it time for another medical curriculum revolution?

Kenneth M Flegel, Paul C Hébert, Noni MacDonald

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Merits and Challenges of Three-Year Medical School Curricula: Time for an Evidence-Based Discussion.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2015
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  2. Long-term outcomes for surgeons from 3- and 4-year medical school curricula.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2012
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  4. Shortening the medical curriculum.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008
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  5. Shortening the medical curriculum.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008
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  6. Shortening the medical curriculum.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kenneth M Flegel
Paul C Hébert
Noni MacDonald

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Problem-Based LearningCanadaClinical CompetenceCurriculumEducation, Medical, UndergraduateHumansSchools, MedicalTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID18166716
PMCPMC2151109

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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