As part of your oath as a health professional, you make a promise to improve your knowledge and awareness of your profession throughout your career. Keeping up with current developments is crucial to your continuous professional development. The most basic step to staying abreast of developments is to monitor the professional literature. You will receive some publications because of your membership in professional organizations. You may also choose to read other publications either by subscribing to them or accessing them through your hospital or other health sciences library.
Once you know what journals and professional publications you want to monitor, you can use the Internet to automate your current awareness activities. You can do this by setting up automatic alerts for tables of contents of specific journals, announcements of new books, or searches on specific subjects.
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