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BrowZine

2 - Do you know
Established in 2011, BrowZine is an online journal browsing service that allows users to create a customized electronic journal library for themselves.  Users can select from approximately 14,500 academic journals from various fields e.g., arts and humanities, history, law, mathematics, biomedical and health sciences, religion and more.  BrowZine’s Library includes select Open Access journals, but libraries can include directly-subscribed serials by taking an institutional subscription. Currently it is subscribed by more than 500 libraries from 16 countries. Users can select only from Open Access journals and journals that their libraries subscribe to. In BrowZine, a journal search can be done in…
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Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

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Drozd B, Couvillon E, Suarez A. Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review. JMIR medical education. 2018 Jan;4(1). Do your patients check YouTube videos for getting health information? The answer is a most likely "Yes". Not only would they get them directly on YouTube, but their friends would forward them YouTube links too. How many of them think about the authenticity / quality of these videos? And if they did, how many would know how to evaluate them and then make a decision to view them? Here is a review article where the authors have identified 37 studies…
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Short Courses on Biostatistics

Short Courses on Biostatistics

5 - Research events in India
The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing its thirty-sixth Short course in Biostatistics from April 17-24, 2018 at CMC Vellore. The course is designed to introduce the principles of biostatistics, basics of epidemiological research and statistical procedures. It also intended to train researchers to calculate sample size in a simple manner using "nMaster 2.0" software. This course is targeted towards researchers of varied profession such as medicine, public health, life sciences, social sciences, nursing, epidemiology, biostatistics etc. Sr. No. Course Date Last date for Registration 1 Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology…
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