1. Keeping Up with the Literature: Strategies for Busy People Sports Rounds March 12, 2009

2. Harsh Reality OR Training Room ClinicLectures Eat?Sleep?Exercise? Family Travel Research Classwork Games PracticeTeaching Social Life Administrative Tasks Personal Hygiene? 24 Hours

3. The Problem

4. Even if we select < 10%

5. How do you do it?

6. 4 Primary Tasks 1)Finding Important Papers 2)Organizing the material 3)Consuming the material 4)Retaining the material

7. Efficient Ways to Stay Up on What’s New (Finding it) My NCBI eTOC Share the Dirty Work Visit the Ortho Library on a Monthly Basis

8. My NCBI NCBI = National Center for Biotechnology Information Division of NIH & the National Library of Medicine Administrates the PUBMED… system

9. My NCBI My NCBI is a place where you have a unique account to save your searches Offers a service that lets you know when new articles come available related to one of your searches Can search on topics, people, journals… Also has two bibliography services

20. eTOC Electronic Table of Contents Nearly all journals/publishers have them Can sign up with one stop shopping with major publishers Get an email when the journal is published (in print… online earlier)

23. Takes you to the journal site; must have access or then go to Hardin / PubMed

24. Share the Dirty Work Take turns compiling a list of recent papers that you feel are important A group of 4 to 8, only need to search once every month or two if weekly or 1-2 times per year if monthly Provide links to papers

25. Visit the Ortho Library Large number of journals Can scan TOCs pretty quickly if visit monthly Identify papers of interest Use PubMed if available online

26. Organization Reading Folder (pdfs or links) My NCBI collection E-Mail Folder for my NCBI or eTOC mailings with hits of interest Endnote/Refworks Print & file it

31. Organization Set aside time 5 AM… get something done prior to checking your email Have a paper in your briefcase, backpack… whatever for times when you are forced to wait

32. Consuming the Material Read the Abstract Glance at Figures Read the Conclusions paragraph

33. Consuming the Material Read the Abstract Last Paragraph of the Introduction Scan methods, results topically Figures & Tables Read first paragraph(s) of Discussion Scan topical sentences of Discussion Read Conclusions Paragraph(s)

34. Retaining What You Read Use it Share it (discussion with colleague, mentor, team, journal club) Develop a Reading Journal (i.e, annotated bibliography) OneNote EndNote/RefWorks