Sunday, February 7, 2010

Classification For Reading Medical Articles


Medical Student
: reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means.
Intern: uses journal as a pillow during nights on call.
Resident: would like to read article but eats dinner instead.
Chief Resident: skips article entirely and reads the classifieds.
Junior Attending: reads and analyzes entire article in order to pimp medical students.
Senior Attending: reads abstracts and quotes the literature liberally.
Research Attending: reads entire article, reanalyzes statistics and looks up all references, usually in lieu of sex.
Chief of Service reads references to see if he/she was cited anywhere.

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