PMO 683 Critical Reading Seminar
The Critical Reading Seminar is part of the USU/WRAMC Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine. It is designed to teach participants to read clinical literature critically, using epidemiologic and statistical techniques. The seminar in the Fall quarter is devoted to a study of the critical appraisal materials designed by the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. Exercises are designed to provide a practical experience in employing McMaster's methodology to significant articles chosen to exemplify both excellent and problematic clinical investigation. Subsequently, participants choose their own critical reading packages. Each session is devoted to reading in depth about a single topic; all participants are provided with three to five articles to read critically prior to the seminar. During the seminar, participants rotate as facilitators; all participants discuss the chosen articles. The articles reviewed are primarily from the internal medicine literature and deal with major topics in preventive medicine, epidemiology, and utilization of diagnostic technology, causation, quality of care, economic analysis, prognosis, and therapy.
Prerequisite
Concurrence of Course Director