Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jeffrey M. Caterino and Scott Kahan Malden (MA): Blackwell Publishing; 2003. 316 pp. US$29.95 (paper) ISBN 1-4051-0357-4 Rating: *** Audience: Final-year medical students and interns Content: Caterino and Kahan's handbook of emergency medicine targets burgeoning trainees at a particularly difficult stage: the final year of medical school and the intern year. Good information sources that bridge the lecture theatre and clinical world are rare. Therefore, for many, knowledge acquisition occurs in rapid step-wise increments that can be decidedly uncomfortable. This book can help ease this transition. Handbooks on emergency medicine generally struggle to balance the enormous breadth of the specialty with the need to provide adequate detail on individual topics. Each page in this book summarizes a single problem. The book assumes a certain amount of clinical experience: basic terms are not defined in the text, and there is liberal use of common abbreviations. Strengths: The breadth of topics covered is excellent. The format is consistent on every page, with headings always located in the same place. This allows readers to access informationquickly, a helpful feature on a busy shift in the emergency department. Caterino is the chief resident in an emergency training program in Pittsburgh; Kahan is a recently graduated MD. The content is concise and up to date. Limitations: The authors make no exceptions to their rule of devoting a single page to each topic. This rigidity is a failing. The sections on the stabilization of critically ill patients — the ABCs of airway, breathing and circulation — are overly brief. Resuscitation of diverse medical and surgical patients is essential to emergency medicine and often represents the appeal for those who decide to pursue careers in the specialty. Readers will need to look elsewhere for this information. Unfortunately, there are no pages devoted to the approach to certain symptoms. Also, students who are visual learners should be wary of this book: the text is in point form, and there are no pictures. Although trainees will outgrow much of this book by the conclusion of their intern year, by then it will have provided a solid foothold in their learning curve. Those who train in emergency medicine may find a secondary use for the book as a guide for ongoing study. The book offers affordable good value to its target audience. Steve Choi Editorial Fellow CMAJ Emergency Physician Ottawa, Ont. This book is available at your local book retailer, or through the publisher at www.blackwellpublishing.com/
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.314 | 0.279 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".