NEW BENEFIT for BMDF ACTIVE MEMBERS
We want you to know of a new benefit for active BMDF members. Active members are those who are current on their dues. The benefit is online access to DynaMed. A description of the database follows:
"DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Based on the results of a study published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005), not only did primary care clinicians answer more clinical questions with access to DynaMed than without DynaMed, but these clinicians also found more answers in DynaMed that changed clinical decisions.
DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.” – from the Dynamed website.
The DynaMed subscription will be active until November 30, 2010.
Access will be through the DynaMed servers and is secure. You will be given a username and password if you decide to enroll.
The only requirements to participate are:
1) completion of this pre-usage survey - This is a WORD document. You can type in your answers, save it, and email or fax it back to BMDF. Carefully read the directions at the beginning and end of the survey. This document will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
2) a commitment to complete a post - usage survey in approximately nine months.
This offer is available to all BMDF active members; so, feel free to send this information along to other colleagues.
Grace and peace,
Fred Loper, MD
BMDF Executive Director