Accessing Medical Information

Question 1

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Answer 1

The more you learn about a topic, the less confident you feel about that info. Gradually goes up however as the experience with the topic increases

Question 2

5 As in evidence based medicine

Answer 2

Apply

Appraise

Acquire

Assess

Ask

Question 3

Issue with open access libraries

Answer 3

Due to charging authors and researchers to publish papers, limits amount of entities or people that can actually publish on these libraries

Question 4

Predatory publishing

Answer 4

Same as opens access, however there is no peer review so really bad research can still be published

Question 5

Pirate open access

Answer 5

People post PDFs of research and violate copyright or go around copyright law.

Examples

• SciHub
• Research Gate
• # icanhazPDF
• r/scholar