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Becoming a DynaMed Author or Reviewer

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 .

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