Are we failing to "build on the scientific basis of medicine?"

Sylvain Coderre, Ira Ripstein, Pamela Veale, Kevin McLaughlin

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Canadian medical education journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Do we pay enough attention to science in medical education?Canadian medical education journal · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sylvain CoderreOffice of Undergraduate Medical Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Ira RipsteinOffice of Undergraduate Medical Education, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada.

Pamela VealeOffice of Undergraduate Medical Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Kevin McLaughlinOffice of Undergraduate Medical Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we question if and why the Canadian national medical education organizations have failed to introduce or promote changes that compel or encourage Canadian medical schools to heed the recommendation from the Future of Medical Education in Canada report to "build on the scientific basis of medicine." We end by offering suggestions on how these organizations could help Canadian medical schools build in the scientific basis of medicine.

Identifiers

PMID30140352

PMCPMC6104311

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