Authors and reviewers for DynaMed are required to have clinical practice experience. Trainees or professionals without clinical practice experience may be authors or reviewers only if a collaborating reviewer has clinical practice experience.

DynaMed Author and Reviewer Criteria:

• Clinician who has completed training and is practicing or has been in practice long enough to provide clinical perspective
• Clinicians in a second form of training (i.e. career change or added certifications) qualify if their first form of training and practice are adequate.
• Students and clinicians in training may be a reviewer/author if they identify and provide a qualified faculty member to work with them as a co-reviewer/co-author.

DynaMed Peer Review - Benefits of Participation

• Free access to DynaMed - value of $395 per year per individual
• Becoming part of a community of medical professionals providing relevant clinical information that is not influenced by medical industry advertisers
• Making the clinical information you use more useful (continuously improving relevance, validity, clarity and ease of use)
• Listing in topic acknowledgements
• Listing on author and reviewer page (retrieved by Google search)
• Opportunity to use in CV
• Ability to contribute to information clinicians use daily in practice
• Potential to become a DynaMed Editor (including an active discussion group discussing the most important clinical research)
• Opportunity to help shape DynaMed content and interface
• Weekly Update - free subscription
• E-mail notification of updates to the topic(s) you review
• Constructive feedback on peer review
• Support and education for critical appraisal and other EBM concepts
• Creditable as CME in some regions (verifiable self directed learning)

DynaMed Peer Review - Additional Participation Benefits for Residency Programs

• An additional educational strategy for critical appraisal, evidence synthesis and other evidence-based processes
• Scholarly effort for Residents
• Faculty development
• Activities tailored to residency program schedules
• ACGME Practice-Based learning and Improvement competency - method and documentation forms provided
• Continued complimentary DynaMed access for program graduates for continued review of topic
• Program recognition - Residency program is listed in topic acknowledgements and author/reviewer page
• Discounts on group subscriptions

Anyone with an interest in contributing to DynaMed as an author or reviewer is encouraged to send an e-mail to .