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09/19/2009

NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

Pros: this is a very good tool

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Other thoughts: where can i find the NEJM Audio Summary with Slides currently on nejm.org?

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Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other

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05/02/2009

one suggestion

Pros: very useful tool for introduction

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Other thoughts: Can you show the scripts of audio file?

Reviewer: Chang
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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04/28/2009

RSS feed

Pros: great

Cons: requires visiting the site every week.

Other thoughts: please create a RSS feed with built-in NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

Reviewer: Francisco
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04/23/2009

NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

Pros: Summaries and slides are clear and concise. Very helpful.

Cons: Lacks ability to click on specific article of interest to listen to.

Reviewer: Tran le
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Place of Work or Study: Non-Profit Organization

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04/16/2009

I/M

Pros: thank u for this great help.

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Reviewer: Manuel
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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04/10/2009

NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

Pros: Excellent summaries with Power Point Presentation

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Reviewer: Nagesh G. Kavi
Professional Specialty: Geriatrics
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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04/10/2009

NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

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Reviewer: Nagesh G. Kavi
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04/02/2009

NEJM Audio Summary

Pros: Wondeful Idea!

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Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Allergy/Immunology
Place of Work or Study: Research Facility

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03/19/2009

Great Idea!

Pros: Clear, concise, and efficient. Gives the highlights without overloading on details.

Cons: I would love to see the summaries that accompany the figures.

Reviewer: Wendy Grace
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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03/11/2009

Crititque

Pros: Great idea!

Cons: Sometimes the audio does not correspond with the tables/text and when you click on the buttons on the right, the audio does not correspond

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program

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03/07/2009

March 5th 2009 issue

Pros: I really liked this way of presenting the summary.I prefer this to reading and will definitely reccomend this to my friends.! It is superb!!!

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Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Allergy/Immunology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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02/19/2009

feb 19 issue

Pros: engaging and provocative way to get a taste of the articles-would definitely use again

Cons: I did not like the black screen when there are no tables- could be replaced with actual text being read- would hold viewer's interest more.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Pediatrics
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)

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02/01/2009

Urinary Incontinence related to Obesity

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Other thoughts: As a Gynaecologist I found the relationship between weight reduction and decrease in the percentage of episodes significant.

Reviewer: Shrikant Purandare
Professional Specialty: Obstetrics/Gynecology
Place of Work or Study: Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility

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02/01/2009

NEJM Audio summary with and without slide

Pros: I watched them for the first time. Very useful informative and interesting. Prepare us to review the entire journal with ease and better result.

Cons: None

Other thoughts: Thank you.

Reviewer: Anonymous
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01/21/2009

Just what the doctor ordered

Pros: Quick, informative, and I retain it much better than reading the articles on paper. I don't have time any more to sift through the paper journal I LOVE THE NEW AUDIO WITH SLIDES!

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Other thoughts: Others have made suggestions about slide quality, etc. I will go with any improvements, but on the whole it is really terrific.

Reviewer: Kwei Quartey
Professional Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)

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01/15/2009

Thanks

Pros: Very useful for the non-English speaking readers. Thanks!

Cons: None.

Reviewer: Deniz Ozmen
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Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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01/01/2009

July 2007

Pros: Very informative in a short time

Cons: The text in the slides is too small to be read.

Other thoughts: You should continue this work

Reviewer: Rafael Estevez
Professional Specialty: Cardiology
Place of Work or Study: Non-Profit Organization

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01/01/2009

january 1, 2009 issue

Pros: very useful!

Cons: could be better with captions, like in "videos in clinical medicine"

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Unspecified
Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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12/07/2008

Dec 4th Issue

Pros: Excelleng presentation along with slides

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Other thoughts: Very useful and updating methade for busy physicians

Reviewer: Babu R. Eladasari
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Government Agency

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12/01/2008

Audio Summary with Slides

Pros: Effective way to keep up with weekly NEJM articles

Cons: Slides can be difficult to read. Also, when trying to move between topics in the summary, there appears to be some technical difficulties. My computer, which has a wireless connection, was unable to move between topics without creating a disconnect between the slides and the audio summary.

Reviewer: Julie McWhorter, M.D.
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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11/30/2008

Audio summary

Pros: Excellent

Cons: None

Other thoughts: Can be more elaborate and descriptive

Reviewer: Dr. B.C.Rao
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (solo)

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11/20/2008

wonderful!

Pros: A wonderful innovation, now my favorite NEJM feature.

Cons: No link to this feature from weekly email.

Reviewer: Anonymous
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Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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11/07/2008

Audio summary with slides

Pros: A wonderful innovation, now my favorite NEJM feature

Cons: It needs a direct way to enlarge slides as needed, or am I missing something?

Reviewer: Tracy230
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Other

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11/01/2008

Excellent!

Pros: excellent quick way to get the basic points and a good overview of the journal. Having the diagrams/tables/charts available make all the difference in transforming a dry commentary into something interactive and helpful.

Cons: As noted by others, some charts are too small to see clearly.

Other thoughts: Awesome way to quickly scan the Journal in a high yield format! Thanks!

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Other

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10/01/2008

NEJM Audio Summary with Slides

Pros: 1. easy ascess, doesn't take much time to download and view it. 2. more informative and more intersting: with slides

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Other thoughts: 1. It would be better if there was option to click for summary in words for viewers. 2. how can I down load it?

Reviewer: mark
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other

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09/18/2008

A great Step Forward!

Pros: An excellent and fast way to scan through a favourite journal.

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Other thoughts: Hope that this remains a pattern of presentation.

Reviewer: Lawrence
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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09/08/2008

it is great indeed

Pros: The slides in combination with audios are perfect,Nejm.org is really great ,support this magazine forever .

Cons: as others had mentioned, I wonder if the slides version be downloaded by learners.

Reviewer: zhang lei
Professional Specialty: Ophthalmology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other

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09/08/2008

iGoogle + audio/slides?

Pros: The podcasts are great and having the slides allows for easy navigation for the casual browser with limited time and visual input that NEJM does a great job on.

Cons: not in my iGoogle or weekly email

Reviewer: Wei
Professional Specialty: Unspecified
Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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09/02/2008

Enchanting and useful !

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Other thoughts: Please consider adding dramatic music to underscore crucial points

Reviewer: Aliput Duffwaddle
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Government Agency

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08/28/2008

Improvement

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Other thoughts: I truly find it great only that some of the tables text are tiny and hard to read maybe the ability to make the presentation full screen. Another little issue is if by clicking on a section in the right hand panel would cause the presentation to jump to that section it would be wonderfully helpful.

Reviewer: Anonymous
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08/21/2008

This Week in NEJM

Pros: A wonderful learning tool. Very much appreciated

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Reviewer: Lucia Chen
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08/09/2008

Pros: an excellent , rewarding teaching tool .

Cons: none

Reviewer: S.M. ALI
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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07/29/2008

very good

Pros: It's convenient and time-saving.

Cons:

Reviewer: jidongmei
Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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07/25/2008

Great!

Pros: The images increase the speed of understanding and getting the whole view of the magazine in a few minutes

Cons:

Reviewer: Tsuchida Marisa
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Research Facility

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07/23/2008

Dr.

Pros: Its a perfect tool to learn and teach, and an easy way to do it.

Cons:

Reviewer: Dr. Enrique Ramirez Gutierrez
Professional Specialty: Unspecified
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other

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07/03/2008

AV Summary Enhances Weekly Review

Pros: Well-done and concise. The narrator provided excellent pronunciation of all: author's names, drugs, etc.

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Other thoughts: Ability to mark and then download some of the slides at the end would be very useful.

Reviewer: Tad Archambault, PhD
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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06/29/2008

Download

Pros: Obvious improvement

Cons: Should be possible to download so you can enjoy them on your laptop while travelling etc during busy days!

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Unspecified
Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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06/18/2008

Great potential

Pros: Easier to follow for foreign readers/listeners.

Cons: Pictures and audio should correlate better (e.g. during Graves' disease)

Reviewer: MD
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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06/11/2008

Audio summaries

Pros: For every foreign reader, it is a great help to hear scientific papers pronounced correctly. As we all are accustomed to use the international congress language (broken English spoken slowly) the audio feature is a great help for better understanding

Cons:

Reviewer: Christian Steffen MD
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Government Agency

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05/22/2008

Audio + Slide Set

Pros: Great way to keep way ahead of the pack. NEJM is doing a great job in finding innovative and cool ideas to make it and keep it as premier medical journal.

Cons:

Other thoughts: Would it be possible to download the Slide Set? I know the audio part can be downloaded in an audio format. Thanks.

Reviewer: KJ
Professional Specialty: Infectious Disease
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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05/21/2008

Capturing imagination

Pros: Fast reviewing and listening of articles in between during break gives great idea of saving time.

Cons: Just enough.

Other thoughts: Great for download in all formats.

Reviewer: N.Thota
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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05/01/2008

great improvement, few details to be solved

Pros: addition of graphs to audio is an important improvement

Cons: intro unneccessary graphs are too small, would prefer more detailed figs technical imperfections: audio and figs do not match if fast forward is used double cliccing on topic in right menu should start audio from that part onward

Reviewer: Tack
Professional Specialty: Endocrinology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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04/17/2008

excellent

Pros: It is the best way to learn more in short time.The tools are great.

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Other thoughts: thank you nejm

Reviewer: Mihaela Pungan
Professional Specialty: Neurology/Neurosurgery
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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04/17/2008

excellent

Pros: It is the best way to learn more in short time.The tools are great.

Cons:

Reviewer: Mihaela Pungan
Professional Specialty: Neurology/Neurosurgery
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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04/09/2008

Pros: the best synthesis now available during our crowded weeks

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Other thoughts: enthusiastic

Reviewer: Sandro Girotto
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)

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04/05/2008

Review

Pros: Excellent use of computer based learning.

Cons: No need to read the table of contents. Would like to see more visuals to accompany the audio. Some reviews had only the title page. Perhaps only the lead author could be mentioned to rather than all authors.

Reviewer: Dana Lustbader MD
Professional Specialty: Critical Care
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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03/28/2008

Multimedia medicine

Pros: Audiovisual technology captures the attention of the audience.

Cons: There needs to be improvement in the synchronization of the audio and slideshow. The loading prompt is somewhat annoying.

Other thoughts: What about a download friendly version?

Reviewer: Viet N.
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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03/09/2008

NEJM Overview 3/6/08

Pros: High-level overview. Preview led to interest to read certain articles in their entirety. Very weel done and narrated.

Cons: Some adult learners I have provided this methodology complain that it is not dynamic enough.

Other thoughts: Keep providing these. Idea: Provide a series on certain illnesses (i.e. MS, CHF, ACS, Orthopaedic Surgey)

Reviewer: Tom Manos
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Pharmaceutical Company

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02/29/2008

audio and slide presentation

Pros: excellent audio and visual feed back

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Other thoughts: Just the right amount of time . One can pick out their area of interest and learn more later.

Reviewer: Dr. R. L.
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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02/22/2008

Very interesting offer

Pros: time saving, much better than just the audio,very interesting and intelligent offer.

Cons: the graphics and pictures should be more dinamic and bigger

Other thoughts: again very interesting, please keep doing it

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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02/22/2008

Excellent

Pros: time saving develops interest in articles which will otherwise be overlooked by residents and junior doctors due to complexity

Cons: Slides are not clearly visible specially the tables and graphs

Other thoughts: over all superb , thumbs up

Reviewer: aitzaz
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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02/07/2008

Pros: Good summary

Cons: A little too long. Also would prefer something a little more to the point. For example for clinical problem solving - tell us what the diagnosis ends up to be.

Reviewer: Mgar
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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01/04/2008

Pros: great wat to catch on new stuff

Cons:

Reviewer: isaac john
Professional Specialty: Pediatrics
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other

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01/02/2008

Much more than spoon feeding

Pros: Ability to navigate back and forth between slides. Easy legibility and superb sound quality.

Cons: Slight loading delay on some slides.

Other thoughts: Ability of the user to alter the quality of sound and picture somewhat would eliminate loading time delays.

Reviewer: William J. DeMedio MD
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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12/21/2007

Table of Contents Review December 20

Pros: Excellent summary of the articles this week.

Cons: A little too complete and long. Would shorten the review by 10 minutes.

Other thoughts: I would listen weekly to this summary with slides if it was just a little shorter.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Pulmonology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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12/20/2007

EXCELLENT

Pros: Helps focussing, and more understanding with pictures than just imagining them.

Cons: Pictures and slides image quality can be modified little further

Reviewer: Kapriati
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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12/13/2007

prof

Pros: the excellent introduction to the new NEJM issue

Cons: small pictures

Reviewer: jan kyselovic
Professional Specialty: Cardiology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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12/13/2007

Audio summary with slides

Pros: extremely useful especailly with slides showing the relevant data

Cons: ticks in some graphs are not large enough to be visualised. The commentary can be slower if some slides show complicated information.

Reviewer: Kee Lam WONG
Professional Specialty: Rheumatology
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (solo)

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11/23/2007

Helpful

Pros: I paid closer attention to the content compared to the adio only version.

Cons: Slides were difficult to see due to the size. I could not detect an easy way to enlarge the visual area.

Other thoughts: Nice and concise review. Stimulated my interest in the subjects presented and made me want to read the articles in depth.

Reviewer: R Hafner
Professional Specialty: Family Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)

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11/11/2007

Excellent idea

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Cons:

Reviewer: Anonymous
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11/09/2007

AYDIN

Pros: Cordially thanks... It is very useful and easily understandable for medicins, practicioners, researchers and academicions from every countries.

Cons:

Reviewer: Ismail Hakki AYDIN
Professional Specialty: Neurology/Neurosurgery
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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11/03/2007

General comments audio/slides summary

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Other thoughts: Can you give these as enhanced mp3/mp4 formats to review on iPods etc?

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Unspecified
Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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11/01/2007

Fantastic

Pros: Very useful, easily understandable for physicians from other countries.

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Other thoughts: It helps to select the articles who want to read.

Reviewer: Cristina Chimenti
Professional Specialty: Cardiology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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10/24/2007

Fantastic

Pros: Engaging, well summarized, efficient, love the visuals, like that you can skip to articles of interest

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Other thoughts: A link to the complete article would be very helpful (if not already there-didn't check as used this first time)

Reviewer: Anonymous
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Place of Work or Study: Unspecified

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10/19/2007

the viewer is too small

Pros: good idea!

Cons: the viewer is too small. I can not read the details of the data on the slide

Reviewer: bin
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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10/18/2007

surely better

Pros: FANTASTIC AND EASY WAY FOR BRAIN STIMULATION

Cons: It is well known that learning and education using more than one sense is more beneficial and easy to keep than using one. It is more or less simulating lectures that we use to deal with at universities.thanks a lot.

Other thoughts: More clinical and radiological slides are needed

Reviewer: Mustafa
Professional Specialty: Pulmonology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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10/13/2007

Excellent!

Pros: VERY CLEAR, HELPFUL AND easy to use.

Cons: For visual learners like myself, this is extremely useful. The slides were easy to read and understand.

Other thoughts: This new feature makes for much easier, fun learning!

Reviewer: Rebecca Edery
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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10/05/2007

POWER POINT AUDIO SUMMARY

Pros: VERY FLEXIBLE TO USE - LIKE THE EASE OF CHOOSING WHAT YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO.

Cons: SOME SLIDES BUSY AND TOO SMALL TO READ

Other thoughts: EXCELLENT ADDITION

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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10/04/2007

clinical pictures of diseases

Pros: I found the picture slides of conditions very interesting. Some of the conditio were some I have not encounterned in practice.

Cons: Only some of the pictures were a little small for my vision

Other thoughts: I rate the program 5 stars

Reviewer: E.J.Brotman
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (solo)

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09/28/2007

Excellent Idea

Pros: Very clear audio. Making it downloadable to a MP3 player is good for those who have little time. You can even listen to it in your way at work.

Cons:

Reviewer: Gaston Moran Celayes
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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09/28/2007

Video

Pros: excellent idea, short time to load over ADSL, good sound understandable for non native english spoken people.

Cons: window too small, charts unreadable, no bass-terble control,too much reverb.

Other thoughts: expand view with option full screen view.

Reviewer: Henrik Petranovic
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Other

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09/27/2007

How can we get images?

Pros: a good idea

Cons: difficult of access and to maintain a good connection

Other thoughts: a rapid amelioration in transferring data

Reviewer: Felice Zadra
Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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09/21/2007

Make figures larger.

Pros:

Cons: Figures are small and legends are unreadable. With figures which contains several figures, they should be devided and presented sequentially in a more readable size. More sophisticated slide show-like presentation is ideal.

Reviewer: Yoshitaka Fujii
Professional Specialty: Other
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching

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03/24/2007

Portable Format

Pros: If expanded, could offer entirely electronic version of NEJM.

Cons: As above, would like to see less summarizing, as in the Clinical Practice article podcast. There's a great opportunity to take advantage of the digital format by highlighting important ideas, pictures, and data in the presentations that the paper NEJM can't offer.

Other thoughts: This cries out for a portable format. A video format for video capable Ipods, PDA's, and cellphones would be a great product.

Reviewer: S.Kirk, MD
Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group)

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03/20/2007

Great way to "read" NEJM

Pros: It's like having a presentation from NEJM each week

Cons: Some slides are hard to read.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Professional Specialty: Pediatrics
Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community

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