A portion of our residency curriculum is devoted to the development of analytic skills necessary to critically evaluate medical and scientific literature. As part of our yearly OSCE, residents are given an article to evaluate. Our residents evaluated the following articles were then asked to answer the questions.

2005 - "Repetitive Bilateral Arm Training and Motor Cortex Activation in Chronic Stroke”, by Luft et al. (American Medical Association. 2004, Vol. 292, 1853-1861)

2004 - "Randomized, clinically controlled trial of intensive geriatric rehabilitation in patients with hip fracture: subgroup analysis of patients with dementia”, by Huusko et al. (British Medical Journal, 2000, Vol. 321, 1107 - 1111),"

2003 - Use of ramipril in preventing stroke: double blind randomised trial”, by Bosch et al. (British Medical Journal, 2002, Vol. 324)

2002 - "Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayers on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial", by Leibovici (British Medical Journal, 2001, 323, 1450-1451)