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Although DynaMed is designed for use at the point-of-care, the research value of the nearly 3,000 clinical topics in the database is a valuable asset
to medical schools for teachers and students. DynaMed is a powerful tool for teaching
the value of clinical information resources. Medical students gain an understanding
of not only the clinical context of current evidence, but also how to quickly access such information for future practice.
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Clerkships:
As students enter clerkships, DynaMed may be utilized more traditionally as a resource
for validating and changing clinical decisions in their clinical rotation. Pre-Doctoral faculty who teach information management or orient students to evidence-based medicine will find DynaMed ideal.
Special DynaMed pricing is also available for clerkships.
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Research Validates the Benefits of DynaMed
Research supported by the National Science Foundation (a controlled, randomized trial)
found that with access to DynaMed, primary care clinicians answered more clinical
questions than without access to DynaMed. More importantly, with DynaMed, primary
care clinicians found more answers that changed clinical decisions. Further still,
in terms of how DynaMed ranked versus competing services, the Level of Evidence for
answers in DynaMed met or exceeded what could be found in a combination of commonly
used point-of-care references 87% of the time. The resulting article for this
study was published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005).
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