Congrats to these Med students for having the bandwidth to tackle critical appraisal. Esp in 2nd year, I was up to eyeballs in assimilating the basics and would not have been capable of this. It’s also a skill that was not taught back in my day in Med school, so good for them to start the process of honing this aspect early. It’s the key…
Congrats to these Med students for having the bandwidth to tackle critical appraisal. Esp in 2nd year, I was up to eyeballs in assimilating the basics and would not have been capable of this. It’s also a skill that was not taught back in my day in Med school, so good for them to start the process of honing this aspect early. It’s the key to maintaining competence over a decades long career.
That said, time management is also a skill that needs to be sharpened, and I’m not sure a study like this is the best way to spend their precious time.
I would note their summary of author conclusions uses the word “contributes” wrt vaccine effect on long covid incidence. This is NOT what the author wrote (at least in the abstract; this is not the type of paper I would spend time reading the entirety of). They imply the author made causal inferences where it appears he did not. He seems to simply describe incidences, which seems like a fair use of observational data (whereas any causal inference clearly would not be).
That said, long COVId at this point seems to be such a morass of diagnostic confusion as to bedevil any sort of serious study that would be ready for clinical prime time. Any “diagnosis” that proposes to amalgamate 80+ different conditions spanning multiple organ systems would seemingly be telling the TB’s and SLE’s of the world to “hold my beer” where it comes to being “the great mimicker”.
Congrats to these Med students for having the bandwidth to tackle critical appraisal. Esp in 2nd year, I was up to eyeballs in assimilating the basics and would not have been capable of this. It’s also a skill that was not taught back in my day in Med school, so good for them to start the process of honing this aspect early. It’s the key to maintaining competence over a decades long career.
That said, time management is also a skill that needs to be sharpened, and I’m not sure a study like this is the best way to spend their precious time.
I would note their summary of author conclusions uses the word “contributes” wrt vaccine effect on long covid incidence. This is NOT what the author wrote (at least in the abstract; this is not the type of paper I would spend time reading the entirety of). They imply the author made causal inferences where it appears he did not. He seems to simply describe incidences, which seems like a fair use of observational data (whereas any causal inference clearly would not be).
That said, long COVId at this point seems to be such a morass of diagnostic confusion as to bedevil any sort of serious study that would be ready for clinical prime time. Any “diagnosis” that proposes to amalgamate 80+ different conditions spanning multiple organ systems would seemingly be telling the TB’s and SLE’s of the world to “hold my beer” where it comes to being “the great mimicker”.