Submited on: 26 Jun 2013 08:54:41 PM GMT
Published on: 27 Jun 2013 12:09:03 PM GMT
 
A Lomgitudinal Curriculum in a Family Medicine Residency
Posted by Dr. William J Maloney on 07 Feb 2014 10:07:28 PM GMT Reviewed by Interested Peers

  • What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?

    The aim of the article is to outline the background and development of a longitudinal curriculum in information mastery in the Oregon Health and Science University Family Medicine residency program.


  • Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.

    Yes


  • Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

    Yes


  • Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

    Yes


  • If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

    No


  • Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

    Yes


  • Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

    No


  • Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?

    Yes-this would be a great seminar in a medical or dental school


  • Other Comments:

    The author very cogently gives the reade a thorough methods section.  OHSUF Family Medicine Residency has successfully implemented a new information mastering curriculum.  Feedback of the curriculum was received from both the residents and faculty.

  • Competing interests:
    None
  • Invited by the author to review this article? :
    No
  • Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
    No
  • References:

    None

  • Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:

    Clinical associate professor

  • How to cite:  Maloney W J.A Lomgitudinal Curriculum in a Family Medicine Residency[Review of the article 'Developing a Longitudinal Curriculum in Information Mastery in a Family Medicine Residency ' by White B].WebmedCentral 2013;5(2):WMCRW002959
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Family Medicine Residency reviewed
Posted by Prof. Valcinir Bedin on 06 Jul 2013 02:25:29 PM GMT

  • What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?

    The claims are to develop a longitudinal curriculum in infromation mastery ina a family medicine residency. These are very important specially for the developing countries programs.


  • Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.

    For this specific place it is novel, despite it could be used in any place.


  • Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

    Yes, the claims are properly placed in the precious literature and the references are enough for this paper.


  • Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

    We hope the author, in a time to come, will bring more light on this subject.


  • If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

    The methodology applied doesn`t fit in this type of protocol.


  • Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

    Yes, but  as I told before we wait for further information


  • Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

    The author could tell us about what is happening now in his program.


  • Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?

    Yes. It is a well positioned paper and we need more papers about his subject.


  • Other Comments:

    No

  • Competing interests:
    None
  • Invited by the author to review this article? :
    No
  • Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
    No
  • References:
    None
  • Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:

    I have been teaching medicine for over 30 years

  • How to cite:  Bedin V .Family Medicine Residency reviewed[Review of the article 'Developing a Longitudinal Curriculum in Information Mastery in a Family Medicine Residency ' by White B].WebmedCentral 2013;4(7):WMCRW002781
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  • What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?

    Authors present a 16 sessions program to attain mastery information in Family Medicine Residents. Their main claim of authors relates to the successfull implementation of the program within the curriculum; however, the assessment, or evaluation, of its usefulness is not known yet. 


  • Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.

    Authors did make a careful review on the literature; they properly quote the resources available at their Institution. The proposal presented appears to be an updated version of previous work. It would be useful to have a short statement clarifying this point.


  • Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

    Claims are adequately placed, BUT data shown do not seem to substantiate their claims; i.e. "successfully implemented" as stated in Conclussion(s), may not mean successfully used.


  • Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

    I would like to see the instrument used to gather the claims shown in Resuts; and their statistical analysis.


  • If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

    Authors describe an educative interventional study, but do not have a control or reference group.


  • Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

    The description of the teaching strategy is adequate, but there are no details on the didactic materials actually used. No data at all on the questionaire to assess usefulness, i.e. data shown as "Results".


  • Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

    Describe in further detail the questionaire used; the method applied for its validation; and, most importantly, show statistical analysis of data gathered.


  • Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?

    Overwhelming information is a current problem in most areas of knowledge, particularly for Medical Students. Curricular modifications are not easy to get approved, specially when Medical Students need to attend duties on wards. The proposal of having independent self-directed and self-regulated sessions seems interesting but shortness of methods and results description in the text, makes a whole appraisal of the teaching strategy usefulnes difficult.


  • Other Comments:

    Some minor details on the text:

    Page 3, left column,  paragraph 2, row 8: withdraw extra spacing

    Page 3, left column, paragraph 4, row 4: it withdraw extra spacing

    Page 3, right column, paragraph 1, row 15: correction needed “In terms of a needs”

  • Competing interests:
    None
  • Invited by the author to review this article? :
    No
  • Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
    No
  • References:
    None
  • Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:

    I have participated in the revision of the medical pharmacology program at the School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico during the last two curricular reforms (2010 and 1997)

  • How to cite:  Ramirez-gonzalez M D.Developing a longitudinal curriculum in information mastery in a family medicine residency[Review of the article 'Developing a Longitudinal Curriculum in Information Mastery in a Family Medicine Residency ' by White B].WebmedCentral 2013;4(6):WMCRW002771
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