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1 day ago | 
sensible-med.com | Vinay Prasad |Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. Here it is!This is the second of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. This and future videos will be made available as a thank you to paid subscribers.
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6 days ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
Every profession requires lifelong learning. Whether you are a plumber, an agent, a police officer, or a general internist, you need to keep learning throughout your career. Nobody leaves training with knowledge sufficient for a career. You need to learn to keep up and because true expertise only develops through deliberate practice. I learn from colleagues and journal articles. However, the learning I enjoy most is practice-based.
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1 week ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
One of the many great things about being a general internist is the exposure to the wondrous diversity of humanity. I am a better person for having brief, but intense, visits with some 50 people every week. These people grew up all over the world and have worked in every imaginable field. I see people barely scraping by financially and people with unimaginable wealth. I care for 90-year-olds who look 60 and 60-year-olds who look 90.
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2 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Vinay Prasad |Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. Well, now there is!This is the first of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. We call our class: How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature. These are topics that each of us teaches separately, but, here, for the first time, we teach them together, and the whole is more than the sum of the parts.
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2 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
Because some readers commented that Vinay’s post last Saturday was more politics than Sensible Medicine, I hesitate to even post this one. Although I won’t comment on the content of Vinay’s post, I do think his belonged here. The current politics have daily effects on us in medicine, especially those of us in academic medicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
“From all my years in the classroom, the lessons that stayed with me most vividly have been the digressions, asides, anecdotes told mostly to relieve the lecturer’s own boredom.” Kathleen RooneyIn my lifetime of listening to lectures, most have been forgettable, leaving me bemoaning an hour of life wasted. Thankfully, in recent years, at least I can be productive — or distracted — thanks to my phone during the most painful lecture.
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu |Vinay Prasad |John Mandrola
In the coming weeks Vinay, John, and I (Adam) will be getting together in person. We are meeting to work on what we think will be some really valuable Sensible Medicine content. Since we will have some time together, we thought it would be a good time to gather some more questions to answer. Same rules as last time: the comments are open to all paid subscribers to pose questions. Ask anything and we promise to take a swing at any and all questions. Photo Credit: Ilkka Kärkkäinen
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu |Vinay Prasad |John Mandrola
It is hard to believe that we are coming up to the third anniversary of Sensible Medicine, well into toddlerhood. None us could have predicted that the site would last this long or be this successful (93,000 subscribers!!!!). The three of us are getting ready to meet up in person for the first time and we thrilled to see what the future will bring. We have some exciting plans. Three years seems a reasonable milestone to call for some reflection.
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
Are you really thinking about retiring? Yeah, I don’t want to work until my final days. But we’re not that old. Yeah, but you never know how long you’re gonna last. Early in my career, I realized that my job affected my approach to my own health. It probably makes temporal sense, therefore, that now I recognize how much my work affects my view of death – and how that impacts my life and practice.
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1 month ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
I liked my previous post on why I don’t think the shingles vaccine (actually our previous shingles vaccine, Zostavax, rather than the present one, Shingrix) does not prevent dementia, despite a Nature article and coverage pretty much everywhere to the contrary. I stand by my conclusions. However, a couple of astute readers, one in the comments and one email, called me out for a bit of an unintentional sleight of hand in the math. It was unintentional, but I want to set the record straight.
