Searching for medical evidence

• Tutorial

ACP National Abstracts Competition

• Guidelines and information
• Writing succinct slides

Creating posters

• Ten simple rules for a good poster presentation
• At a glance: a stepwise approach to successful poster presentations.
• Specific poster types
  • Research posters PMID 17355594
  • Clinic cases (see Appendix table for key elements to include) PMICID PMC2642558
• Download KUSM-W template.

Creating slide shows

• Entertaining and good examples (SlideShare.com)
  • 5 tips (#1 and #5 are especially important)
  • "Steal this presentation!"
• Download KUMC-W template

Grand rounds preparation

• Guidelines for Resident Grand Rounds (KUMC password required)
• KUSM-W Grand Rounds example slides (KUMC password required)

Writing articles in general

• Kansas Journal of Medicine: information for authors
• Preparing Manuscripts for Submission to Medical Journals: The Paper Trail
• Strategies in writing for a physician audience.

Writing meta-analyses

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy

Writing quality improvement articles

• SQUIRE standards
• Publishing your QI Project. ACP Hospitalist. 2011, Feb

Writing case reports for articles and posters

Consider focusing the report on one aspect of the case and systematically reviewing literature relevant to that one aspect. This extra effort would create knowledge more likely to help other clinicians and be published. Examples of this type of report are:

• This case report and review limited to online textbooks and RCTs: Soares-Weiser K, Paul M, Brezis M, Leibovici L. Evidence based case report. Antibiotic treatment for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. BMJ. 2002;324;(7329)100-2. PMID: 11786457
• This case report and review limited to other case reports and case series: Lao L, Hamilton GR, Fu J, Berman BM. Is acupuncture safe? A systematic review of case reports. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003;9;(1)72-83. PMID: 12564354
• This case report and review was quite thorough and was published in a major journal: George JN, Raskob GE, Shah SR, Rizvi MA, Hamilton SA, Osborne S et al.. Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: a systematic review of published case reports. Ann Intern Med. 1998;129;(11)886-90. PMID: 9867731
• Helpful information if you are reporting an adverse drug reaction: Clarifying Adverse Drug Events: A Clinician's Guide to Terminology, Documentation, and Reporting. Ann. Intern. Med 2004;140(10):795-801 PMID: 15148066

(the below links require free registration for studentBMJ)

• • Writing a medical case report. Student BMJ 2009;17:b5274
  • How to write a case report. studentBMJ 2004;12:45-88