Medicine and the media Canadian Institute for Academic Medicine

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Medicine and the mediaCanadian Institute for
Academic Medicine
John Hoey Halifax April 2004
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Editor, expert in anything?
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The pleasures of editing
Dear Editor What are you smoking? Is our
Journal the garbage can of last resort? You
conspire to cover up government damage to health
care. Why do you do that? Money? After all the
CMA blather about excellence, how come you are
so sub-standard?
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The pleasures of editing
Hi, im doing this project in school about The E
Coli as an example of how water damages things
us. Can u send me info about E coli and what
it is and how it came into the waters and
stuff??? But not pages of stuff Just the
important points. Thanks, Vanessa Send to
fishy_000_at_.
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Eugene Garfield
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Impact factor ranking

• The impact factor is an index of journal quality
  and (loosely defined) represents the number of
  citations each journal article receives in the
  first 1-2 years.

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Impact factors 2002general medical journals

• NEJM 31.7
• JAMA 16.8
• Lancet 15.4
• BMJ 7.6
• CMAJ 3.2

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The moment of any new technology is moment of
choice.

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Towards 2000. Raymond Williams Chatto Windus,
The Hogarth Press,1983 page 146
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• Monthly
• page views 225.7 million
• unique visits 4.7 million
• Searches 59.2 million

• Estimated 30 are non-researchers/health
  professionals and 10 are from the general public

• Source - Sheldon Kotzin, US National Library of
  Medicine, April 2004

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• 2003 data is estimated

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Citations vs probability article is online
Lawrence S. Online or invisible. Nature
2001411521 http//external.nj.nec.com/lawrence/
papers/online-nature01/
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• Poutanan et al. Mar 31

• Dwosh et al. April 25

• May 6 Canada CDC editorial.

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EDITORIALLessons from SARSCMAJ May 2003 168
1381 .
We need to question (again) the wisdom of
embedding our national public health system of
disease control and prevention in a large
government bureaucracy. Our governments should
look beyond todays epidemic curves and prepare
for the next. A good first step would be the
creation of a Canadian Office of Disease Control
and Prevention. CMAJ

• May 6, 2003 - eCMAJ

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A Canadian Institute of Medicine?

• Policy - National
• Medicare -
• Drug prices and their control
• Too many or too few physicians/nurses/etc.
• Policy - International
• HIV drugs
• War/global warming/
• Medicine
• Stem cell research
• Sub-specialization of medicine - too much,
  primary care?
• Pet Scanners

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To sum up...
Thank You
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