Do you remember when you read a full paper from scientific journal?
Abstract
Scientific medical journals have been published since the early 1600s. Physicians are encouraged to read these journals to enhance their knowledge, maintain their professional competence, and stay updated on the latest developments in the medical field. Clinicians often face significant challenges in reading journal articles regularly, despite the importance of staying updated with current research. Clinicians might not read full articles from scientific journals as frequently as expected for several reasons like time constraints, complexity of information, lengthy articles, complicated statistics with tables and figures, limited access of journals, and many more reasons. Most of the clinician read only the title and abstract of the article which if found relevant, they may rarely proceed to full text.The real challenge is to present complexity of research finding in an understandable way so that clinicians can assimilate and apply it effectively.
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