Scientific research: raiders of the lost tool

Abstract

During the residency or concurrence, part of the academic activity is usually the "bibliographical" meetings. Its objective is to update or deepen knowledge through the joint reading of scientific research articles. How many times, faced with the need to shorten time, facilitate understanding or try to keep our colleagues' attention, do we read quickly or even skip the section on methodology and statistics? How many times have we critically analyzed an article without coming to the original author's conclusions? There is nothing more tempting than reading the title, the introduction and going straight to the conclusion. Obviously, this is far from being a generality.