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Thanks for visiting us at the ATS

This month saw F1000 Medicine exhibit for the first time at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Conference, held in Toronto from 16th-21st May. It was a great success and we received lots of interest and positive feedback about the service.

We would like to thank all of the Faculty Members that stopped by to say hello and wish us good luck. Your continued support and participation in the service is very much appreciated.

Thank you!

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Posted by Natalie Davall on Monday Jun 02, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

Visit us at the American Thoracic Society Conference

Faculty of 1000 Medicine & Biology are exhibiting at this year's American Thoracic Society Conference (May 18-21).

If you are going to this meeting in Toronto, it would be great to see you there. Please come and visit us at booth #837 to meet members of the team and to pick up your copy of our special-edition guide to Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care.

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Posted by Adie Chan on Friday May 16, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

Faculty of 1000 Medicine partnership with Medscape

We are delighted to announce that Medscape will be regularly publishing a selection of expert opinions from Faculty of 1000 Medicine's world-leading clinicians and researchers.

Medscape, who offer the web's largest collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine articles, will compliment their collection with evaluations of key articles from Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

While our 2400-strong Faculty selects and evaluates only those articles they think add value to their field, Medscape's editors will cherry-pick those articles they feel have clinically important results.

We hope that our relationship with Medscape will help us to get the invaluable insights of our trusted experts out to a broader audience in the medical community.

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Posted by Adie Chan on Wednesday May 14, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

The first evaluation to cite an entry within a trial registry

We have recently published our first evaluation that cites an entry within a trial registry. Perhaps we're too geeky for words, but for us this represents an elegant stitching together of the many elements that make up contemporary scientific publishing.

It used to be that scientific publishing was all about research articles. These days we've become accustomed to review articles, often useful as a way to bring together the main references in a field, and commentaries, a good way to highlight the key lessons of a research article or raise an important issue.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is part of the so-called 'post-publication' world, where 'publication' refers to the traditional publishing of research articles. But there is also a growing 'pre-publication' world -- usually consisting of preprint servers and (the aforementioned) trial registries.

Our evaluation by Philip Harvey is of a paper by RW Buchanan et al. from the American Journal of Psychiatry. In his evaluation, Philip highlights how the paper builds on some unpublished work that he has come across. Since the work is unpublished, in the bad old days, its details would have been irretrievable. But, because the study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, we can learn what was done to which population and whom to contact to find out more.

So, through F1000 Medicine, not only do you learn of a key published article and what a respected leader thinks of it but also of other relevant work as yet unpublished. Okay, we're geeks, but that's actually quite cool.

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Posted by Pritpal S Tamber on Friday Feb 22, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

Welcome to the Faculty of 1000 Medicine blog

We've been around since January 2006 and thought it was about time we explained ourselves.

There are too many journals and too many articles. You want to stay abreast of the literature, but it's always been hard, and seems to be getting harder. It's not just a time issue, it's also increasingly complicated to interpret research findings - and then decipher what to apply to your practice.

Our Faculty selects and comments on the articles that add true value to their field. Since launch, they have selected over 6000 articles across the 200 sub-specialties within the service - an average of 30 articles per sub-specialty in about two years. That's a far more manageable reading list, we think you'll agree.

Each selected article can receive comments from any number of Faculty Members. This helps to bring out different interpretations for different audiences. The 6000 articles selected to date have received over 7150 comments.

Most of us want to believe that good articles only appear in the good journals, and we have set views on what those journals are. But the 6000 articles selected by our Faculty have been taken from many so-called 'small' journals because they're judged on their individual merit rather than the collective merit of the journal. To date, our articles have come from over 1000 journals.

We've started a blog to keep you abreast of developments within the service, the achievements of our Faculty, and to give you our take on the ever-growing literature base and the increasingly difficult task to apply it to practice.

We hope you find it informative.

Pritpal S Tamber
Managing Director of F1000 Medicine

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Posted by Pritpal S Tamber on Tuesday Dec 18, 2007, Category: General | Permalink