Posted by pseudoname on July 27, 2006, at 12:27:42
In reply to Re: psych med study conflicts (NYT editorial), posted by Phillipa on July 27, 2006, at 11:54:33
> I wonder how many pdocs read these articles?
Well, that's a great question, Phillipa. I think very few articles get read by more than a handful of non-research pdocs. I think most pdocs look at a lot of tables-of-contents in popular journals (AJP, etc), and skip to the "Results" or "Discussion" sections of what piques their interest. They seem mostly to depend on (1) professional magazines (which digest some studies) and (2) salespeople and (3) required continuing education classes to keep up-to-date.
The C.E. classes, I found out at the APA convention, are also often paid for in their entirety (with dinner!) by drug companies. Some professional magazines are industry-sponsored (and in my opinion untrustworthy) like “Psychiatry”, which is also given away free. Sigh.
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