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Journal Watch Challenge
Test your current medical knowledge with quizzes based on Journal Watch content.
How current is your medical knowledge? Take our test and find out. Drawn from our published articles, this Journal Watch online feature asks fun and engaging questions about the latest published articles, guidelines, and news, and points you to the Journal Watch summaries that contain the answers.
To try a JW Challenge, please try it now!. Then let us know what you think of this beta feature by filling out the review form.
Reviews:
Might be fun as a competition...
by H. Wei,
09/24/2009
Pros:
Cons: Windows is sometimes too small for content for correct answer explanation.
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Corporation
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by C Dahlin,
04/19/2009
Pros: Quick, simple, to the point
Cons: You have to remember to go to JW Beta
Other thoughts: It is time to make this a JW email
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)
Fabulous!...
by Artur,
03/27/2009
Pros: Qiuck with direct references to relevant literature (evidence)
Cons: You can't take the test within selected specialty
Other thoughts: ... but perhaps it makes it so exciting!
Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other
Perfect!...
by spt,
11/01/2008
Pros: Quick, thought-provoking, interesting. And quick!
Cons: Can't choose topic.
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program
I like to learn this way!...
by tova,
10/30/2008
Pros: short and sweet, with reference for further reading if desired. I would happily review of list of 25-30 questions like this daily to pick up useful tips
Cons:
Other thoughts: can be used to reinforce (or teach) all kinds of useful pearls for practice!
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)
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by Graeme Semple,
09/15/2008
Pros: Simple to use and quick to determine knowledge levels
Cons: Time Factor
Other thoughts: A complement to CME and other materials
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program
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by Diane Miller,
05/23/2008
Pros: Great way to test yourself on information received. Can also learn new information.
Cons: None
Professional Specialty: Infectious Disease
Place of Work or Study: Government Agency
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by Charles,
05/19/2008
Pros: Interactive and challenging way of learning while keeping it fun. Also will will help with CME tests and Board style review.
Cons: Time
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community
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by D Hansen,
05/14/2008
Pros: Fun.!...would cause me to read more carefully and thoroughly and identify key points, and share information with peers.
Cons:
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community
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by Esther Brienza,
05/14/2008
Pros: Amusing, I speed read most mailings and often delete them if I've too much mail. I scored 100% so I liked the test :-) It was a useful reminder for a couple of issues.
Cons:
Other thoughts: Sticking to key points of important issues and setting a new test every month will probably help us all to recap.
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other
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by Anonymous,
05/14/2008
Pros: Good way to reinforce information that I read in Journal Watch.
Cons:
Other thoughts: It would be fun to get a question a day via email.
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching
Pleasing but could be improved...
by B Shah,
03/30/2008
Pros: Easy to check how well one has absorbed recent news
Cons: It would be better still if there was an ability to set the number of questions to be displayed, along with a scoring for correct answers.
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)
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by Barbara Manroe,
03/06/2008
Pros: An easy no-risk way to test how well you know or understand newly published medical information, even if the information is outside of your specialty. Even if you use it to inform family, friends, acquaintances who know you are a physician, it is a fun and educational quick way to a tasty tidbit of new information.
Cons:
Professional Specialty: Pediatrics
Place of Work or Study: Other
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