Achieving your Childhood Dreams
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. Randy is still alive and writes an online diary.
Source: Medical Education Blog - July 3, 2008 Tags: Videos
Morning Mergansers
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The Mergansers enjoy an early morning sunbath, sitting on the dock of the bay …
Mother and offspring reflect on their enjoyment of this lovely morning …
Mother Merganser, always alert, spies an approaching kayak …
Ducklings! Into the water!! NOW!!!
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - July 2, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun
Five good books and a bad one
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During the last year, there has been a very welcome flurry of good and informative books about alternative medicine. They are all written in a style that requires little scientific background, even the one that is intended for medical students.
CAM, Cumming | Trick or Treatment | Snake Oil Science |
Testing treatments [...]
Source: DC's goodscience - July 2, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science Bad journalism CAM Dangerous advice Politicians UUK Universities acupuncture antiscience assessment badscience herbalism homeopathy nutribollocks nutrition alternative medicine bad science Bausell
Wardround 20vi8
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The reading for Tuesday will be The rational clinical examination. Does this patient have abnormal central venous pressure? Cook DJ, Simel DL. JAMA 1996; 275: 630-4.The two minute talks for Friday will be slightly different. I would like you to look over a guideline of your choice (but related to adult general internal medicine, of course) and present 5 useful points from the document. As a warning example I would not find it useful to be told that nebulised beta agonists are useful in the management of acute exacerbations of COPD (I know that already), but I don't know how useful.Not education except in its widest sense, ...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - June 23, 2008
A very bad report: gamma minus for the vice-chancellor
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A report has appeared on Regulation of Practitioners of Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine. The report is written by people all of whom have vested interests in spreading quackery. It shows an execrable ability to assess evidence, and it advocates degrees in antiscience It would fail any examination. Sorry, Prof Pittilo, [...]
Source: DC's goodscience - June 20, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ASA Academia Anti-science Dangerous advice Foundation of Integrated Health HR bollocks Human resources Pittilo Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation UUK Universities acupuncture antioxident assessment badscience evidence he
Wardround 13vi8
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The reading for next Tuesday will be The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine, Jerome Lowenstein. I have put a copy on the ward.The two minute talks for next week will be your diagnosis of the Plague of Athens. You will find a description of the outbreak in The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides in 431 B.C. If you click on the link it will take you to a copy of the piece. The web page begins with chapter VI, but you can skip down to chapter VII (unless you would like to read about the war). If you cannot find the right section, press ctrl-F and type in plague.You need to ...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - June 13, 2008
The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature
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The ACCME commissioned and has just released this literature review:
Cervero RM, Jiang H. The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature. Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, June 2008.
Background and Purpose (excerpt) : As the foundations for modern approaches to medical education were being built in the early years of the 20th century, William Osler fretted about the encroachment of pharmaceutical companies. He was concerned that physicians may come to rely on the “specious and seductive pamphlets issued by pharmaceutical hou...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - June 12, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Industry & Health Care
Interesting Case of "Co-rumination"
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I haven't written much about actual medical cases I see here at my hospital but this one intrigued me. Some details have been altered of course.A 30ish female showed up in our emergency department complaining of a sharp, stabbing pain in her left neck (10 out of 10 in intensity) for several days along with a palpable mass over the area. The pain had been present for two to three months but not nearly this intense nor had the mass been as large. She also complained of fatigue, shortness of breath, tactile fevers (felt hot but hadn't actually checked her temperature), and a range of other symptoms. The intern who presented t...
Source: California Medicine Man - June 10, 2008 Tags: Medicine Medical Education Art of Medicine
Wardround 6vi8
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The reading for Tuesday is Doctors, Lawyers and Wolves. George J Annas, Lancet 31 May 2008. Read and reflect please.The two minute talks are neurologically themed. The specific assignments are no longer in my possession, but you have them and can forewarn the newcomers.A short post I am afraid but as well as working this weekend I have been sorting out my email account at home which had been reporting "2,147,433,168 messages unread". MJM
Source: MJM Wardrounds - June 8, 2008
Royal Pharmaceutical Society defends quackery
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We have often had cause to criticise Boots Alliance, the biggest retail pharmacist in the UK, because of its deeply unethical approach to junk medicine. Click here to read the shameful litany. The problem of Boots was raised recently also by Edzard Ernst at the Hay [...]
Source: DC's goodscience - June 5, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia BBC CAM Dangerous advice Foundation of Integrated Health Pharmacy RPSGB acupuncture advertisements badscience business coQ10 conflict of interest corporate evidence herbalism homeopathy nutribollocks pharmacist
CME Congress 2008 Plenary Presentations
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The 2008 CME Congress was held in Vancouver from May 29 - 31. The conference organizers have kindly made available the PowerPoint presentations of the plenary speakers. (The documents are in PDF format. And be patient, they download rather slowly.) The slides are not as compelling as are the words of excellent speakers such as Glenn Regehr, unfortunately.
Holmboe, Dr. Eric. Physician Competence Assessment
Gilbert, Dr. John. Interprofessional Learning. Discussant (Frank, Dr. Blye)
Kilo, Dr. Charles. Educating Physicians for Systems
Harrison, Dr. Van. Reconsidering CME’s Functions in a System
Regehr, D...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - June 5, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education
Wardround 30v8
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An interesting update on skin infections. What did you learn?Cellulitis is a common condition in acute medicine. Always ask yourself if this is 'simple' or complicated. Is there immunosuppression, skin integrity, rapid progression, unexpected pain, recurrence, poor response to treatment?You already have your asssignments for next week's talks and the discussion for Tuesday was posted last week.The May M&M meeting when very well I felt.Interesting topicsUnsuspected Pulmonary thromboembolismMJM
Source: MJM Wardrounds - June 1, 2008
Social Media in Plain English
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Another great video about why social media is such an important innovation.
Source: Medical Education Blog - May 31, 2008 Tags: Technology
Google commemorates Memorial Day
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Google generally makes special holiday modifications to their homepage logo. Here's Google's celebratory logo for Memorial Day:What kind of statement are they making here? It seems that I'm far from the only one who's noticed the extent to which they honor the deaths of our nation's fallen warriors; the same dead who gave Google the ability to freely gather and disseminate information in a free society.Google may be ignoring this day but at 10:30AM, my 5-year-old daughter, my wife, and I will be at the Los Angeles National Cemetery where we go every year...to remember.
Source: California Medicine Man - May 26, 2008 Tags: Politics
Wardround 23v8
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Endocrine emergencies. Well done. I had given YA 10/10 in my notebook for his talk on acute hypoadrenalism, so I was forced to give Thyrotoxic storm by EM a 10+. I think you have grasped what is needed.Many of the emergencies discussed can be misdiagnosed as other common conditions and considering the possibility is just as important as knowing what to do.I will share with you that my soul shudders each time someone recommends "routine bloods". I can cope with "x, y and z should be routine bloods in the investigation of...". Be specific.For next Friday the assignments are based on skin infections:Infection following animal...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - May 25, 2008
Trip of a Lifetime - LSD
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This May 1 article in The Independent (U.K.) outlines the history and some of the highlights (or lowlights) of the LSD era: Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world
If you are old enough to remember the 60s, you might enjoy watching these videos from that time. The first records an experiment with British troops, and the second shows an extremely stoned Jim Morrison singing Light my Fire. (Of course, you know what they say about remembering the 60s …)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - May 23, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun
A Practical Suggestion for President Bush and Congress
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I rarely write about non-medical issues but I have an important policy recommendation that I think will help the country.Several days ago, the media lampooned President Bush for being "snubbed" by the Saudi's for refusing his request to significantly increase oil production. Bush's request was part of his plan to to ameliorate the problem of seriously rising oil prices. I wasn't there but I imagine that his plea was met with an admonition to "go pound sand".Today, it was announced that the House of Representatives passed a bill allowing the U.S. to sue OPEC for their antitrust activity in arbitrarily limiting oil productio...
Source: California Medicine Man - May 21, 2008 Tags: Politics As Usual Humor
Illness Scripts
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What is the difference between a Novice and an Expert?
One of the primary differences between novice and expert physicians is the number of illness scripts experts have developed over the years. These patterns are similar to algorithms, but more individualized to the expert's experience and personal style. The more experienced the expert, the more shortcuts will be included in the individual's patterns because of automaticity (unconscious knowledge).
Teaching Illness Scripts
You can assist learners in a clinical setting to develop their own patterns by asking them to graph common illnesses as the progress through their ...
Source: Medical Education Blog - May 20, 2008 Tags: Teaching Techniques
How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them
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This chapter is from the final report of Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning, the Macy Foundation report on continuing health education.
Moore DE Jr. How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them. From: Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 2008, p. 30-62.
Excerpt: Researchers from multiple studies over the past several years have reported that there are distressing gaps between the healthcare services that patients receive and those that they cou...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - May 20, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Industry & Health Care
Wardound 16v8
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Our discussion paper last week was The reading for discussion on Tuesday will be DNR or PEACE. J Crampton. BMJ 2008;336:1015. An interesting discussion ensued. If you would like to read more on the subject could I suggest you take a look at Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation A joint statement from the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the Royal College of Nursing from October 2007For next Tuesday the reading will be Liz Wager: Training and the placebo effect.Our talks this week were about poisoning, and overall I think they were well researched and presented as spoken mini-ess...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - May 18, 2008
Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning (Macy Foundation) - the monograph
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The final report is available as of May 16, 2008:
Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. A Conference Sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Chaired by Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. Bermuda, November 2007. Edited by Mary Hager, Sue Russell, and Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 2008.
For reactions to the chairman’s summary of this report, see this page.
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - May 17, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Industry & Health Care
Integrative baloney @ Yale
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The extent to which irrationality has become established in US Medicine is truly alarming I wrote about Quakademics in the USA and Canada on my last trip to the USA, and on my May trip I visited Yale, where I decided to try a full [...]
Source: DC's goodscience - May 16, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science Big Pharma CAM Universities acupuncture advertisements anti-oxidant antioxident antiscience antoxidant badscience herbalism homeopathy management bollocks nutribollocks nutrition supplements Boots
Accreditation, certification, and licensure: How six general competencies are influencing medical education and patient care
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The article below was recently published in the Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline. This is the journal of the Federation of State Medical Boards. Copies of the article may be ordered from the journal Web site.
Mazmanian PE, Galbraith R, Miller SH, Schyve PM, Kopelow M, Thompson JN, Aparicio A, Davis DA, Kahn NB Jr. Accreditation, certification, and licensure: How six general competencies are influencing medical education and patient care. Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline 2008; 94(1):8-14.
Abstract: Lifelong learning and self-assessment are tenets of medical education and health care improvement; p...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - May 15, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education Patient Care
The effectiveness of self-assessment on the identification of learner needs, learner activity, and impact on clinical practice
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This new BEME Guide was just published in Medical Teacher:
Colthart I, Bagnall G, Evans A, Allbutt H, Haig A, Illing J, McKinstry B. The effectiveness of self-assessment on the identification of learner needs, learner activity, and impact on clinical practice: BEME Guide no. 10. Med Teach 2008 Mar;30(2):124-45. [subscription required]
Read the full abstract View the full issue
Excerpt:
Background: Health professionals are increasingly expected to identify their own learning needs through a process of ongoing self-assessment. Self-assessment is integral to many appraisal systems and has been espoused as...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - May 15, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Adult / Continuing / Health Education
Boots zapped by Advertising Standards Authority
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After writing the recent post Boots reaches new level of dishonesty with CoQ10 promotion, I sent a complaint about the dishonesty of the advertisements to the Advertising Standards Authority. I got a surprsingly fast response. On April 22 I got
“it appears you have a valid point and, with a view to acting quickly, have [...]
Source: DC's goodscience - May 14, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: PR Prince of Wales Uncategorized antiscience conflict of interest corruption nutribollocks Advertising ASA badscience Boots coQ10
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 Tags: Politics As Usual
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 Tags: Emergency Medicine Dumb Policy Health Care Economics
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
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 - April 30, 2008 Tags: Student Resources
Book Helpdesk
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Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 29, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Industry & Health Care
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
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM
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 - April 23, 2008 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
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 - April 21, 2008 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
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
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 - April 18, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun
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
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 - April 12, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Web Resources / Search Tools Writing & Publishing
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 Tags: Announcements
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Information Seeking Series or Collections Web Resources / Search Tools
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 - April 10, 2008 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
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Evidence Based Health Care Series or Collections Web Resources / Search Tools
How to create a great powerpoint without breaking the law
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Source: Medical Education Blog - April 7, 2008 Tags: Teaching Techniques
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM
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 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Web Resources / Search Tools
Out of action at present
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - April 3, 2008
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 - April 2, 2008 Tags: Announcements
Migrating Penguins - from the BBC on April 1
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Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 2, 2008 Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun
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 - April 1, 2008 Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: business regulation metrics Human resources spin Academia Universities management bollocks science corporate Uncategorized
