A Primer on Clinical Experience in Medicine: Reasoning, Decision Making, and Communication in Health Sciences

About MDMD JenicekMilos Jenicek

Milos JENICEK MD PhD Canadian citizen is currently holding a position as Professor (Part-Time) at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton Ontario Canada. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal and he holds an adjunct position of Professor at McGill University Faculty of Medicine Montreal Quebec Canada. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine London UK.Milos Jenicek received his basic education at Charles University Prague (MD 1959) a graduate degree in 1965 (PhD) and later a postgraduate clinical training at McGill University Teaching Hospitals. He is a licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC) a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) a specialist of the Province of Quebec (CSPQ) and holds a regular permit to practice medicine in Ontario and Quebec. He contributes to the evolution of epidemiology as a general method of objective reasoning and decision making in medicine. To further enhance his teaching and research he has committed himself to short sabbaticals during which he visited Harvard and Johns Hopkins Yale North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Uniformed Services at Bethesda Universities. He also lectured and visited numerous institutions in Hong Kong Singapore Japan South Korea Portugal Brazil France and Switzerland. He has been a visiting professor to various universities and governments. Earlier in his career three years of University teaching and field practice of preventive medicine and public health in North Africa (1965-1968) has given him valuable insight and understanding of the realities in this part of the world.During his term as Acting Chairman of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine University of Montreal (1988-1989) he founded the graduate program in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Montreal his core course being also part of the graduate program at McGill University. Until 1991 he was member of the Board of Examiners of the Medical Council of Canada (Committee on Preventive Medicine). In 2000 he was invited as External Examiner by the Kuwait University. Also Milos Jenicek is a consultant to various national and international public and private bodies Editorial Consultant for the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and the Case Reports & Clinical Practice Review and Honorary Editorial Board Member of Evidence-Based Preventive Medicine.In addition to numerous scientific papers Milos Jenicek has published thirteen textbooks: Introduction to Epidemiology (in French 1975). Epidemiology. Principles techniques applications (in French with R. Cléroux 1982 and in Spanish 1987) Clinical Epidemiology Clinimetrics (in French with R. Cléroux 1985) and Meta-Analysis in Medicine. Evaluation and Synthesis of Clinical and Epidemiological Information (in French 1987) by the James Lind Library recognized first textbook of meta-analysis in medicine. The Epidemiology. The Logic of Modern Medicine (EPIMED International1995) was also published in Spanish (1996) and Japanese (1998). His sixth book Medical Casuistics. Proper Reporting of Clinical Cases (in French 1997) is again produced jointly by Canadian (EDISEM) and French (Maloine) publishers. Clinical Case Reporting in Evidence-Based Medicine (Butterworth Heinemann1999) appears again as an expanded second edition in English (Arnold 2001) Italian (2001) Korean (2002) and Japanese (2002). His Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine was published in 2003 by Parthenon Publishing/CRC Press. The tenth Evidence-Based Practice. Logic and Critical Thinking in Medicine (with D Hitchcock) was released by the American Medical Association (AMA Press 2005) as well as his A Physicians Self-Paced Guide to Critical Thinking (AMA Press 2006) and Fallacy-Free Reasoning in Medicine. Improving Communication and Decision Making in Research and Practice (AMA Press 2009). His Medical Error and Harm. Understanding Prevention and Control was just released (2011) by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.Current interests: Development of methodology and applications of logic critical thinking decision making and communication in health sciences enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health health policies and program evaluation decision oriented (bedside) clinical research.Contact by e-mail: jenicekm@mcmaster.ca