General Surgery Resident Use of Electronic Resources: 15 Minutes a Day

Presents 15 th Annual Resident and Fellow Research Day

Purpose:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (TSCPC) in patients requiring additional intraocular pressure reduction following Baerveldt glaucoma implant (BGI) surgery. Methods: Twenty eyes that underwent TSCPC with the red (810nm) diode laser between April 2005 and January 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. All patients had previously undergone placement o...

What a resident in general surgery should know of oncology?

My 15 minutes of fame.

The reporting of “medical news” has become an important part of the barrage of information available in print, in electronic media, and, of course, in the 4 billion or so sites on a Google search for health-related topics. My own brush with this phenomenon came about through co-writing an editorial1 on one of the most pedestrian issues that one can imagine: How much water should one consume eac...

Day surgery: implications for general practice.

it possible to undertake a diverse range of surgical procedures under local anaesthesia, ranging from those requiring only basic surgical skills to more operations that are complex. Most of these take place in the hospital setting. Increasing minor surgery rates in primary care and redistributing selected local anaesthetic procedures away from hospitals for delivery by GPs, GPs with a special i...

Scholarly Use of Internet-Based Electronic Resources: A Survey Report

THEPURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO CONSTRUCT a baseline of scholarly use of Internet-based electronic resources (e-sources) by surveying a group of library and information science (LIS) scholars. Results reported here include researchers’ demographic information, frequency of use of various Internet tools and resources, ways of accessing various Internet tools and applications, strategies of locati...