Those crazy politicians and university endowments
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Massachusetts is contemplating a 2.5% state tax on university endowments in excess of $1 billion per university (via Greg Mankiw's Blog). Now personally, I could care less about Harvard's financial concerns. It's hard to worry about a school with a $34 billion endowment. I'd be happy if my net worth was half that amount.Here's an idea that would take some of the wind out of these legislative proponents' sails. Harvard could take 2% of their endowment each year and give it to their 19,000 undergraduates and graduate students. This is surely a fraction of the annual interest Harvard ...
Source: California Medicine Man - May 10, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Politics As Usual Source Type: blogs
The emtala and inintended consequences
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Edwin Leap wrote a revealing post about one of my personal pet peeves: the EMTALA laws (h/t KevinMD). Read the whole thing.The EMTALA (Emergency Medical and Active Labor Act) mandates that essentially all patients must be seen regardless of ability to pay. Admittedly, this federal law states that people can be sent away without treatment after they've been properly evaluated. However, the penalties for being wrong are so severe that few hospitals are willing to take the chance. In effect, hospitals see and treat almost all E.R. patients even if they know that they won't be payed for doing so. People will of course argue th...
Source: California Medicine Man - May 9, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Emergency Medicine Dumb Policy Health Care Economics Source Type: blogs
Wardround 9v8
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Our discussion this week, in the absence of a paper to read, was about improving practice by Morbidity and mortality meetings. We will now run an M&M meeting on the last Thursday of each month. There is an M&M folder in the Nurses office. All deaths for the month should be listed there. The GAJ team will review MJM patients and vice versa. The Necessary patients notes will need to be pulled the week before. Our two minute talks were about the investigation of malignancy of unknown origin. A useful discussion I think. We heard about the more common cancers nad discussed how that should guide our history, examination...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - May 9, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Quizmd - practice exam questions
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QuizMD is the open collection of practice exam questions created by and for medical students. Test yourself on what your colleagues deem important, and learn by creating questions to test others. Focus your valuable study time on what really matters: clinical decision making.
To read a review from the University of Alberta
What do you think, would your university describe this as cheating or as collaborative studying? (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - April 30, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Student Resources Source Type: blogs
Book helpdesk
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Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 29, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Report of the aamc task force on industry funding of medical education
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The Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education has issued its final report for consideration in June by the AAMC Executive Council. The task force included institutional leaders; faculty; residents; students from the AAMC governance; CEOs from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries; ethicists; and public representatives. It was funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr Foundation.
See also this April 29 editorial from the New York Times: Should They Send a Thank-You Note? ; The bloggers are also commenting on the AAMC report ;
See also Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 29, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Industry & Health Care Source Type: blogs
Wardround 25iv8
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The discussion this Tuesday began with the paper The strange malady of Alessandro’s uncle, Neil A (Tony) Holtzman. I was prompted to choose the paper following the journal club discussion last week about the genetic markers for responses to warfarin. The paper describes the development of a new (genetic) investigation and treatment and its impact on the aforementioned uncle. Many interventions will appear better than they prove to be when evidence is limited.and the passage of time gives more accurate assessments.The paper for discussion next week will be Screening for MRSA, M Wilcox, BMJ 2008;336:899-900The two minute t...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - April 28, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Distance education: the benefits of spinal manipulation
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Here is an online course developed by Dr. Kim Ross of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC). The course description:
This presentation looks at clinical trials of spinal manipulation to discrepancies in the literature, and mechanisms by which manipulation produces its clinical effect. What you will find is that some of the mechanistic assumptions of spinal manipulation need to be revisted. Spinal manipulation is a mechanical intervention. But one cannot discount the possibilty of a neurological mechanism of action.
The course offers three hours of CE credits and is available free of charge to members of both...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 25, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Source Type: blogs
Westminster university bsc: “amethysts emit high yin energy”
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Times Higher Education has published a league table showing that the University of Westminster is head of the league table for the number of courses in quackery. With fine timing, I just acquired the slides for their lecture on "vibrational medicine". See a selection of them. It seems that Amethyst; the 'Transmutator' . . .emits high Yin energy so transmuting lower energies and clearing and aligning energy disturbances . . .". This is part of a vocational "Bachelor of Science" degree. It is beyond parody. You couldn't make it up. (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - April 23, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia CAM Dangerous advice Universities acupuncture assessment badscience herbalism homeopathy nutribollocks nutrition supplements alternative medicine Anti-science complementary medicine crystal healing vibrational medi Source Type: blogs
The quacktitioner royal gets a drubbing
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This blog, along with many others, has had plenty to say about the Prince of Wales’ unconstitutional meddling in public affairs. The lovely description, Quacktitioner Royal, was coined by NHS Blog doctor.
The Times published a letter from Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh on April 16th. In their forthcoming book, Trick or Treatment? Alternative [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - April 21, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: antoxidant anti-oxidant antioxident regulation nutrition antiscience Lavely Prince of Wales supplements badscience acupuncture homeopathy Dangerous advice Anti-science nutribollocks herbalism conflict of interest trust Source Type: blogs
Wardround 18iv8
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Back on-line.The reading for Tuesday will be The strange malady of Alessandro’s uncle, Neil A (Tony) Holtzman. BMJ 2007;335:1306-1307, (doi:10.1136/bmj.39407.647014.80). Read it and think, then share your views.The two minute talks for Friday will be Making a diagnosis: you can decide among yourselves who will make each presentation.What constitutes Diabetes mellitus?What constitutes COPD?What constitutes Coronary artery disease?What constitutes Delirium?Two minutes please. practice it and make sure your timing is accurate. be concise and precise, quote your sources.Interesting topicsHypereosinophilic syndrome or look in...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - April 20, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Lonely little lamp
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Rejection. Rain and wind. Sad music. The fleeting caress of the replacement. The dying light and the garbage strewn street. And then, the accusation … (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 18, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Dangerous email message
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ITS has received several reports of e-mail messages asking individuals for USASK usernames and passwords. These messages are "phishing" attempts -- attempts to acquire sensitive information fraudulently.
Do not respond to these "phishing" messages.
ITS never asks for passwords.
One of the fraudulent messages currently being circulated threatens to suspend the user's e-mail and states that the recipient must confirm "webmail identity" to prevent account closure.
ITS requires no such action.
If you know of anyone who has received such a message and sent their username (NSID) and password as requested in the message, they s...
Source: Medical Education Blog - April 17, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Responsible conduct of research: online courses
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Conclusion
Credits: This site was produced by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL) in collaboration with the Columbia University Center for Bioethics and the Columbia University Office for Responsible Conduct of Research. (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 12, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Web Resources / Search Tools Writing & Publishing Source Type: blogs
Lessons from health care on how to deal with mistakes
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All faculty are invited to attend a Lunch and Learn, hosted by the American Society for Quality, SK Section.
Seminar: Under the Microscope, Lessons from Health Care on How to Deal with Mistakes
Date: Tuesday April 29, 2008
Lunch 11:45 am
Presentation 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Candle Room, Atrium Building, 111 Research Drive
Innovation Place, Saskatoon, SK
Cost: Members $ 25.00 + GST
Non-Members $ 30.00 + GST
Register: http://www.picatic.com/ticket/2008-04-29-ASQ/
When a mistake happens at work, what should you do? Do you look for who made the mistake and punish them? Or, do you wo...
Source: Medical Education Blog - April 12, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
Roar & doar: registry / directory of open access respositories
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I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I discovered ROAR and DOAR.
See also eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
United States Canada Search or Browse for Repositories FAQ
Example: Heal...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 10, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Information Seeking Series or Collections Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
In-human resources, science and pizza
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This is a fuller version, with links, of the comment piece published in Times Higher Education on 10 April 2008.
If you still have any doubt about the problems of directed research, look at the trenchant editorial in Nature (3 April, 2008. Look also at the editorial in Science by Bruce [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - April 10, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: badscience leadership spin HR bollocks assessment Human resources antiscience metrics PR Academia evidence Politicians Anti-science management bollocks statistics conflict of interest corporate Universities Source Type: blogs
Escholarship respository (california digital library)
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Here is an Open Access resource I just discovered, from the California Digital Library (CDL).
The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library, and is an open-access publishing platform that offers UC [Universiy of California] departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, postprints, and seminar papers. These materials are freely available to the public online. As of today there are 21,040 papers in the repository. ...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 8, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Evidence Based Health Care Series or Collections Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
How to create a great powerpoint without breaking the law
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(Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - April 7, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Teaching Techniques Source Type: blogs
Chiropractic treatment tables
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Conclusion: Cloth tables were shown to contain pathogenic microbacteria and allergens. The chiropractic profession should establish an infection control protocol relevant to treatment tables and discard use of cloth-covered treatment tables in this process.
Last year the same authors published this article:
Evans MW, Jr., Breshears J, Campbell A, Husbands C, Rupert R. Assessment and risk reduction of infectious pathogens on chiropractic treatment tables. Chiropr Osteopat 2007; 15(1):8. [Open Access]
And here is another one by two of the authors:
Evans MW, Breshears J. Attitudes and behaviors of chiropractic college student...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 4, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Source Type: blogs
In-cam outcomes database
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Here is a terrific new resource from IN-CAM, the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research network, created to foster excellence in CAM research in Canada.
The goal of this database is to include practical and accessible information on outcome measures within a framework of domains that are important to CAM researchers.
Click on the above image to view the Framework of Outcome Domains. Click on a domain and see a list of the measures for that domain. Each measure includes an Extended Details tab.
Here are the Physical Domain mea...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 3, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
Out of action at present
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(Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - April 3, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Congratulations dr. lafontaine
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Dr. Alika LaFontaine from the University of Saskatchewan won Canada's Next Great Prime Minister. (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - April 2, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
Migrating penguins - from the bbc on april 1
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(Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 2, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Research, bureaucrats and schubert
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This is an old joke whuch can be found in many places on the web. I came across it in an article by Gustav Born in 2002 (BIF Futura, 17, 78 - 86) and reproduce what he said. It has never been more relevant, so it’s well worth repeating. The title [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - April 1, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: business regulation metrics Human resources spin Academia Universities management bollocks science corporate Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Cochrane library: free access for all?
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In an ideal world, all health information would be available to all people. The databases contained in the Cochrane Library are an invaluable resource for health professionals, particularly the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and there is a global movement to make the Cochrane Library available to all.
A number of countries now offer their citizens free access to the Cochrane Library because they have obtained national provisions. Currently there are two online petitions to receive national provisions, one in Canada and one in Europe.
In Canada, people residing in New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, ...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 1, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Evidence Based Health Care Literature Searching Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
From dr. jill bolte taylor: the most electrifying lecture you'll ever hear
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I've heard a lot of lectures in my life but never one like this. This is neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor giving a talk on the functional differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. She's passionate about her subject as she actually suffered a massive intracranial hemorrhage that trashed her left brain. Dr. Taylor brilliantly describes the experience and sensations both as a stroke victim and as a scientist.Not that I want to replicate her experience but man do I wish I could teach like her! Check it out and prepare to be riveted by the most amazing 20 minute talk you've ever heard.It makes me neve...
Source: California Medicine Man - March 30, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Medical Education Art of Medicine Source Type: blogs
Self-assessment: jcehp theme issue
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The Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions contains a number of excellent articles on self-assessment [available by subscription only]. Click on the links below to view the PubMed records for each article.
Joan Sargeant. Toward a common understanding of self-assessment (p 1-4)
Ronald M. Epstein, Daniel J. Siegel, Jordan Silberman. Self-monitoring in clinical practice: A challenge for medical educators (p 5-13)
Kevin W. Eva, Glenn Regehr. I’ll never play professional football and other fallacies of self-assessment (p 14-19)
Robert M. Galbraith, Richard E. Hawkins, Eric S...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 29, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Source Type: blogs
Adobe online products announcement
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Adobe Express - online tool for photo editing...
You shot it — now do something to it. Make it pop. Make it impossible to ignore. Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to all your images.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopexpress/
Adobe Premiere Express - online tool for video editing.
Never edited video before? Never fear. With Adobe® Premiere® Express, make videos that rock in minutes. All you need is a web browser and Adobe Flash® Player, which you probably already have on your machine. And best of all, there's nothing to pay or...
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 27, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Bbc sees the light: removes alternative medicine pages
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In a wonderful demonstration of common sense, the BBC has removed all the alternative medicine pages from BBC Health web site. I expect that it was helped in making that decision by the many complaints it had received about statements on these pages that were simply not true, The existence of these pages [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - March 26, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: badscience acupuncture antioxident anti-oxidant antiscience advertisements Journalism Bad journalism Anti-science homeopathy nutribollocks herbalism CAM Source Type: blogs
Individual patient education for low back pain (cochrane review)
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A January 2008 version of this Cochrane Review, first published last September, is now available online [subscription required to view the complete review]:
Engers A, Jellema P, Wensing M, van der Windt DAWM, Grol R, van Tulder MW. Individual patient education for low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD004057. PubMed Record
Plain Language Summary:
Low-back pain is a very common condition, particularly in developed countries. It can cause a great deal of pain and lost activity.
Health professionals use patient education to help people learn about low-back pain and what to do...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 20, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Source Type: blogs
Online study at the university of alberta
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My congratulations to the University of Alberta for jumping into online learning in a creative and innovative way!
Excerpted from Biomedical Library Blog
" The University of Alberta School of Medicine has embraced one of the newest trends in medical education - providing online interactive and collaborative study tools within their learning system. Homer - think Greek mytology and students setting out on “an epic journey of lifelong learning” - is their newly created sytem that contains links to the information med students need - class notes, slides, and schedules - and also learning games, journal articles, email...
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 17, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Top 10 amazing chemistry videos
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Here are some really funny and amazing chemistry videos, from Wired Science magazine. As they state, Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. My favourite is the one pictured above, a commercial that’s a music video about polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that parodies those celebrity music videos. The burning Gummy Bear is pretty good, too.
The Top 10
10. Thermite vs. Liquid Nitrogen
9. Gummy Bear Dies a Fiery Death in Potassium Chlorate
8. German Scientist Spits Flaming Spores
7. The PCR Song (commercial for a BioRad thermocycler, which is ess...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 14, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
General education uses of second life
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Here is a very good overview of Second Life's uses in education.
Click twice to play (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 14, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Medical education 2007: top downloaded articles, with free full text
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Here are the articles most downloaded from Medical Education in 2007. For now, free full text is available.
Learning styles: do they really exist? [letter] Kieran Walsh Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 618-620.
Experience-based learning: a model linking the processes and outcomes of medical students’ workplace learning [by] Tim Dornan, Henny Boshuizen, Nigel King, Albert Scherpbier Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 84-91.
Defining medical professionalism: a qualitative study [by] Peggy Wagner, Julia Hendrich, Ginger Moseley, Valera Hudson Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 288-294.
Medical students’ learning of anatomy: mem...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 14, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Series or Collections Source Type: blogs
Boots reaches new level of dishonesty with coq10 promotion
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Boots the Chemists have proved themselves dishonest before, over their promotion of homeopathy and of B Vitamins “for vitality”
In a press release dated 12 March 2008, they have hit a new low in ethical standards
Boots help boost the nation’s energy levels in just one week
“Health and beauty expert Boots has launched an exclusive energising vitamin [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - March 13, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: nutrition antoxidant anti-oxidant antiscience supplements Boots coQ10 Ann Walker antioxident badscience nutribollocks Bad journalism Anti-science herbalism corporate advertisements business conflict of interest CAM Source Type: blogs
The reported validity and reliability of methods for evaluating continuing medical education: a systematic review
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CONCLUSIONS: The evidence for CME effectiveness is limited by weaknesses in the reported validity and reliability of evaluation methods. Educators should devote more attention to the development and reporting of high-quality CME evaluation methods and to emerging guidelines for establishing the validity of CME evaluation methods.
Read the full abstract PubMed (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 13, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Source Type: blogs
Medical education in second life
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Virtual Simulation is creating a lot of play in the medical education technology world and Second Life is the most accessible of the virtual worlds. The University of Saskatchewan currently leases land in Second Life where they are building an Art Gallery.
If you don't know what Second Life is take a look at this video from MD Kiosk on Virtual Health Island.
Click twice to play. (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 12, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Nutriprofile: useful aid or sales scam?
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We are all interested in the relationship between our health and what we eat. What a pity that so little is known about it.
The problem, of course, is that it almost impossible to do randomised experiments, and quite impossible in most cases to make the experiments blind. Without randomisation there is no [...] (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - March 8, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: anti-oxidant antioxident badscience antoxidant nutrition supplements antiscience advertisements Academia Anti-science Universities nutribollocks herbalism conflict of interest corporate CAM Source Type: blogs
A snowy march morning …
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I’m looking out my window on a snowy March morning and a little red squirrel braves the snow …
These seeds are soooo good … But who is that on the other side of that window? Uh, oh, I don’t like the look of that at all …
Better get outta here and score some more food … (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 8, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Wardround 7iii8
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Last week's talks were about substance abuse: acute management and harm reduction. Good talks, full of useful information but the handouts were a little to bulky for my liking...try something that can be taken in with one or two glances rather than a page that requires reading. Have a look at this as an example. This would probably be the equivalent of all the talks at a Friday meeting.What pearls have I taken away from these talks? (if I've missed a good one just add it to the comments section)Myocardial sensitisation to catecholamines with solvent inhalation: aim for calm and quiet surroundings, monitor cardiac rhythm an...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - March 8, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Active learning in large classes - powerpoint games
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Dr. Kalyani Premkumar continued her innovative teaching by taking an hour to use a PowerPoint game to help medical students remember medical terminology and processes. The following image shows the central game board divided into 6 categories with questions of increasing difficulty in each category for a total of 33 questions.
70 students were divided into teams to compete for prizes such as pens shaped as syringes, erasers, caps etc.
The final jeopardy question was really difficult – not directly covered in classes, but required integration. The students made their bid and submitted their answers in writing. Dr...
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 7, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Teaching Techniques Source Type: blogs
3-d teaching and learning environments
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BreakAway has created a set of tools and editors to enable the transformation of medical education curriculum into a fully immersive 3D teaching and learning environment. Created to support the Pulse!! Virtual Clinical Learning Lab developed in partnership with Texas A&M University -- Corpus Christi, these tools and editors have the potential to be customized for other training programs -- in medicine or in other fields. Click Twice to play. (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 7, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Who says medical education hasn'tchanged
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Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, describes major changes in American medical education in 3 minutes. Click twice to play. (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 7, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Whichbook.net — choose a book to match your needs
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Do you ever go to a library or bookstore and not have a clue about what book to look for? Well, here is help, from whichbook.net, and it’s really fun to use. On one screen you can choose the mood and length and other qualities (click on the above screen shot for an example), and you can even move the levers to choose the degree of your choices.
On the other screen you can choose elements of character, plot and setting:
Here I chose female, quest, Canada, and the database produced Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, one of my favourite books! Some facts about whichbook.net:
Books:
The books in the databa...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 7, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints in adults — an evidence-based approach
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This series of practice guidelines has been published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics [full text by subscription]:
Bussières AE, Peterson C, Taylor JA. Diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints in adults — an evidence-based approach. Introduction. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2007 Nov-Dec;30(9):617-83.
Imaging technology can improve patient outcomes by allowing greater precision in diagnosing and treating patients. However, there is evidence that overuse, underuse, and misuse of imaging services occur. The purpose of this project was to develop evidence-...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - March 3, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Evidence Based Health Care Practice Guidelines Source Type: blogs
Wardround 29ii8
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The talks this week were about interstitial lung diseases. You are getting the hang of it now; Information targeted at clinical practice and delivered so as to be memorable. The best talk/handout this week was Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (Dr NNT). Remember to ask about activities up to 6 hours before the onset of acute dyspnoea. Always consider infective causes. (I have a feeling that I need to take care not to evolve into an Infectious Diseases evangelist.)For next week the assignments are based on substance misuse:Glue (MR)Alcohol (NNT)Cocaine (KL)Crystal Meth (R)Two minutes please on the management of acute toxicity a...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - March 2, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Dr anne doig wins saskatchewan nomination to be next cma president
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Canadian Medicine - News and views from the editors of the National Review of Medicine announced that Dr. Doig has been nominated as the new CMA president
http://canadianmedicine.blogspot.com/2008/02/dr-anne-doig-wins-saskatchewan.html (Source: Medical Education Blog)
Source: Medical Education Blog - March 1, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
A little google history from the internet archive
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I first heard about Google in June, 1999. But Google was actually up and running late the previous year; above is a screen shot of the November 11, 1998 entry, the first page in the list of Google pages archived by the Internet Archive. It’s fascinating to browse through these archived pages and see how Google has developed through the years.
Here is a screen shot from the December 2, 1998 page; click on the image to see the whole shot. (Already the trademark I’m feeling lucky button was there.)
Read the description of the company from that date, and keep in mind where Google is today!
The Company
Go...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - February 29, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
Some google history from the internet archive
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I first heard about Google in June, 1999. But Google was actually up and running late in the previous year; above is a screen shot of the November 11, 1998 entry, the first page in the list of Google pages archived by the Internet Archive. It’s fascinating to browse through these archived pages and see how Google has developed through the years.
Here is a screen shot from the December 2, 1998 page; click on the image to see the whole shot. (Already the trademark I’m feeling lucky button was there.)
Read the description of the company from that date, and keep in mind where Google is today!
The Company...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - February 29, 2008 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
