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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