How do I use UpToDate alerts?
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UpToDate is a great tool to ensure you maintain currency in your speciality. You can just look up a condition online when you want to refresh your knowledge or use the options linked below to be alerted to new developments. You can also create a personal account in UpToDate to record your activity online - which could be used to demonstrate effort towards continual professional development.
UpToDate What's New topics include Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Palliative care ... Updates include the additions to UpToDate which the editors consider of particular interest. All topics are updated as new evidence becomes available and is peer reviewed.
These highlight significant and specific new recommendations and/or updates that the editors anticipate may change usual practice.