Academic and Research Skills
Community Pediatrics
Cross-Disciplinary Pathway
Education Pathway
General Pediatrics
Medical Education
Scholarly Sessions
Social Media & Technology
Trainee Pathway
Jennifer Benjamin, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
GeneraL Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine -
Houston, Texas, United States
Tyson Pillow, MD, MEd
Vice Chair of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Pearland, Texas, United States
Anoop Agrawal, MD
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Clinicians are required to stay informed to make evidence-based decision making for patient care. Despite this exponential increase in scientific publications and technological advances, there is no formal education for clinicians to use technology effectively to retrieve latest scientific articles for applying evidence-based medicine to clinical practice. In addition, we need to develop strategies to avoid information overload from emails, autogenerated communication to prioritize relevant information. Managing information sources to keep up with exponentially increasing research and data requires effective strategies for information processing. New information that is not stored and retrievable cannot contribute to active ongoing learning. In this workshop participants will learn to use active strategies to personalize desirable research articles, create annotation tools and autogenerated feeds for relevant scientific literature using Innoreader and READ QxMD on their mobile device. They will learn to amplify their search result to find all relevant articles from their primary article for direct application in clinical practice using Connected Papers, and will learn strategies to safely store relevant articles through annotation tools using Diigo and retrieve articles for citing in manuscript writing using Zotero and Mendeley. The workshop will include a didactic portion explaining information management and the SAMR framework for technology integration. Most of the workshop will be spent on small group work with hands on skills portions 20 mins each at round tables where participants will be able to download and personalize information feeds using Inoreader, amplify searches using Connected Paper and safely retrieve and cite relevant articles using Zotero.