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October is the season of conferences. And there were 2 important ones for EBMers: the “Downunder” Cochrane Colloquium (see www.colloquium.info and you might wish to sign up for the 2006 meeting in Dublin, 23–26 October 2006) and the 3rd Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers meeting in Sicily (next meeting in 2007). A brief report of the latter is included in this issue.
As you know each abstract in EBM includes a commentary by a clinician who has expertise in the particular topic of the research (chosen from a database of 2050). We would like to thank all the commentators who have contributed a commentary to the journal this year (a listing is on the EBM webpage www.evidence-basedmedicine.com). If you are interested in signing up as a commentator, then please complete the form in the centre of the webpage. Alternatively you might like to sign up as a Sentinel Reader—clinicians who help us assess the relevance of possible research articles. You can sign up to look at as many or few as you like in your interest areas. You don’t need critical appraisal skills (we do that part), but you do need to be clinically active.
This issue we also have 2 versions of a “teaching tip” on how to demonstrate randomisation. I highly recommend trying one or both of these to liven up sessions teaching about trials. Do you have any tips or other topics you’d like to see covered? The EBM webpage lists our top 10 articles, and many of these are the Notebooks or Resource Corners. So if you have a topic that you want to see covered (or you want to write!) please contact me at paul.glasziou{at}dphpc.ox.ac.uk.