MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with '- teaching'. Tue, 04 May 2010 18:20:31 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463775&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F7TG1M82XxGE%2F Teaching a child a second language may seem pointless to those parents who learned a second language in high school – only to forget it all a few years later. However, research shows that kids who learn a second language get ahead in life. According to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, kids who are learning a second language score better on standardized tests, read English better and go on to do better in college. Additionally, they point to evidence that bilingualism can improve intelligence, memory, cognitive abilities, and problem solving skills. In short, kids are human sponges. Here are some tips on how to teach your child a second language: Get a Good Teach Check with your child’s school for any classes that teach a second language. If that option isn... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463775 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:15:08 +0100 3463775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463562&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fkids-and-foreign-languages-your-own-little-italian-scholar%2F Teaching a child a second language may seem pointless to those parents who learned a second language in high school – only to forget it all a few years later. However, research shows that kids who learn a second language get ahead in life. According to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, kids who are learning a second language score better on standardized tests, read English better and go on to do better in college. Additionally, they point to evidence that bilingualism can improve intelligence, memory, cognitive abilities, and problem solving skills. In short, kids are human sponges. Here are some tips on how to teach your child a second language: Get a Good Teach Check with your child’s school for any classes that teach a second language. If that option isn... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463562 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:15:08 +0100 3463562 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3437658&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F05%2Feducation-for-primary-care-2010-vol-21-no-2%2F This article explores the early implementation of CBL pilots in one part of the UK and assesses the impact of CBL on local training programmes across 14 general practice speciality training schemes. Contact the Library for a copy of this article Filed under: Current Awareness, Journals, Primary Care Tagged: Cluster Teaching, Cluster-based Learning, General Practitioners, Learners, Trainees, Vocational Training (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3437658 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:57:39 +0100 3437658 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3424911&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FIOvCO14psAA%2F URL: http://www.ncld.org/This site provides information on various learning disabilities. An extensive list of links, organized by topic, is also provided. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Academia, Autism, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Educational Psychology, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, YouthFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Information, LinksThis site provides information on various learning disabilities. An extensive list of links, organized by topic, is also provided. NCLD provides essential information to parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning, and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opp... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3424911 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:00:09 +0100 3424911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3416166&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fnew-case-gallery-feature-display-radiology-cases-by-diagnosis.html And another feature has been added to Radiolopolis: Display cases by diagnosis.This new feature allows you to browse through our entire case gallery by alphabet.1. Just go to the "Case gallery" and click on the link"Review all diagnoses" (red arrow).2. You will then see letters from A to Z.3. Click on any letter and every case starting with that letter will be shown and can be reviewed. (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3416166 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:22:08 +0100 3416166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395066&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FA0JrCD4gejU%2F Sure, I still want my jetpack and hovercraft, but we DO live in the future. In a talk I gave recently, I illustrated this position with few small examples of how far we’ve come. When I was born, my father (an IBM programmer) used some cutting-edge computer technology to make my birth announcements. See images below. 1 How did he use these? He made birth announcements on 96-column punch cards in which the punches spelled out the word “BOY.” In 1972, here’s what the cutting-edge of MEDLINE looked like to most users: According the NLM’s Janet Zipser, MEDLINE was the first remote access, real-time database in existence. By the end of 1972 about 150 libraries had access to MEDLINE® all at medical schools and research facilities. The rate was $6/hour, a 4-fold reduc... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395066 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:59:09 +0100 3395066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3398868&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D8434 We stand on the shoulders of giants is a teaching blog dedicated to the late Emeritus Professor T J Danaraj, the foundation Dean of the University of Malaya Medical Centre. The blog is moderated by Dr. Wong Yin Onn. Prof Danaraj meticulously documented the physical signs seen in his patients for the purpose of teaching medical students. Thousands of slides were made in his long teaching career. In the days before plastic, these pictures were imprinted on glass plates. After he passed away, the slide collection was given to Dr Wong Yin Onn. These slides were used by Dr Wong in teaching; however it is felt that for this teaching material to reach a bigger audience, it will have to be digitalised to help preserve it and to enable it to be posted onto a Website. The process of slowly digitali... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3398868 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3398868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395239&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Facr-about-radiolopolis-online-trends-you-need-to-know-about.html Radiolopolis in the News!An entire article about social networking in the medical profession has been published in the news of the American College of Radiology (ACR) - and Radiolopolis did not come too short!You may read the complete article here - page 20, title "What Happens Online, Stays Online".For a good reason we make the registration process somewhat harder than other sites - it's worth it to be known as one of the safest professional social networking sites on the plRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395239 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:52:00 +0100 3395239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3382756&cid=t_317260_85_f&fid=34798&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommitmenttoliving.com%2F2010%2F03%2F18%2Fpreparing-presentation-aa-2010%2F I’m preparing my presentation for the April 2010 American Association of Suicidology annual conference, which will be held in Orlando, Florida.   My presentation is titled “Evaluation of Commitment to Living: a brief training to address suicide risk assessment and management.”  I’m enjoying the preparations because I’m planning to present entirely using mindmaps on my curriculum which relies heavily on mindmaps!  There’s a very pleasing symmetry about it.   And I’m impressed all over again with how much the maps aid the conceptual organization of the material I want to present.  I’m sure it’s not for everybody, but I find it so helpful. If you’re going to be in Orlando on April 24, please come by and say hello. Related post... Commitment to Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3382756 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:04:01 +0100 3382756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366150&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F14%2Feducation-in-primary-care-2010-vol-21-no-1%2F Contents Page Fade Fave: A survey of general practitioners’ opinions and perceived competencies in teaching undergraduate psychiatry Fade Skinny: The teaching of undergraduate psychiatry is intended to focus on more common mental health problems which are more applicable to general medical practice. There have been increasing suggestions that GPs should be more involved in undergraduate teaching and this article examines their opinions regarding the best place to deliver undergraduate psychiatry teaching and what areas of the curriculum GPs feel competent to teach. Contact the library for a copy of this article Filed under: Current Awareness, E-Journals, Journals, Ooops Missed Category!, Primary Care Tagged: Primary Care, Psychiatry, Teaching, Undergraduate (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366150 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:26:09 +0100 3366150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3342748&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fa-success-story-over-65-percent-increase-in-radiolopolis-members-in-only-3-months.html Wow! What an exciting time we are going through!We just took a quick look on our registration numbers and noticed that since December 2009 we increased our membership numbers by 66 percent! (Within only 3 months!!!) At the end of the RSNA meeting Radiolopolis had "only" 1800 members. With each day we notice an increasing rate of new registrations and to date we welcome 2730 members to our "family". Isn't this amazing!?To a great extend we relate this high popularity to the extRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3342748 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:34:15 +0100 3342748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3267220&cid=t_317260_155_f&fid=38412&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpathlabmed.typepad.com%2Fsurgical_pathology_and_la%2F2010%2F02%2Fjames-fowler-on-the-power-of-social-networks.html I referred to the book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis, in my recent lecture at SIU's Symposium on Teaching and Learning.  I've been thinking about the implications of this book with respect to medical education and how to incorporate these findings into teaching strategies.  This video podcast is a nice introduction of the book by one of the authors, James Fowler.PopTech : popcasts. (Source: The Daily Sign-Out) The Daily Sign-Out blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3267220 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:53:12 +0100 3267220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3236122&cid=t_317260_155_f&fid=38412&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpathlabmed.typepad.com%2Fsurgical_pathology_and_la%2F2010%2F02%2Fusing-social-networking-for-pathology-teaching.html I had the privilege of presenting yesterday at the "1st Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning" at Southern Illinois University-School of Medicine in Springfield (my alma mater!).  I am uploading a pdf of the slides from the presentation.  This is my (very!) preliminary experience from last fall teaching the organ-specific  lung section of the second-year pathology course at Rush Medical College in Chicago using a course blog (Lung Sounds) and Twitter profile (@lungsounds) to enhance the traditional curricular format of textbook, lectures and course syllabus.It is interesting that there was not more participation on either the blog or Twitter.  One of the comments in the discussion is that Twitter may not have yet caught on in the med-student age group.... The Daily Sign-Out blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3236122 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:36:21 +0100 3236122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224815&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D8277 Aron from the AO Foundation has written in to say that they are making their AO Surgery Reference freely available to all the surgeons worldwide. This is good news for all orthopaedic and trauma surgeons. The reference starts of with a picture of the human skeleton and you can select the anatomical area of interest, drill down according to the fracture and following that the management etc. This reminds me of a little joke I recall from my medical student days. While the origin of the name AO Foundation stems from the German , Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen (German for Association for the Study of Internal Fixation) the operative recommendations for fracture treatment also leads one to assume AO stands for “Always Operate”! from the Malaysian Medical Resources Fre... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224815 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3224815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3223201&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2Fa839IkX2oxE%2F Perhaps I can write a bit more about my trip to Arizona soon, but for now I wanted to get the slides posted for those who attended. It was lots of fun and a treat for me to get to leave Syracuse in January and gape at palm trees for a couple of days. Refreshing Take on Technology Trends (MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010) _______________ Feed-only Footer: [This space for rent] Want to reach about 3,500 RSS subscribers to this feed? Please get in touch. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3223201 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:23:45 +0100 3223201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3185433&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F19%2Fi-can-haz-civil-liberties%2F Just the other week, I finally got around to mailing an envelope off to Locks of Love, non-profit that makes wigs for children who have long-term hair loss for medical reasons.  My son’s not keen on haircuts, so for a long time, he didn’t bother.  By the time he finally got around to getting to [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3185433 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:40:32 +0100 3185433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149167&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fget-professional-and-read-the-cases-like-on-your-workstation.html Radiolopolis just added a new - worldwide unique - feature, which has been adapted from our partner Journal of Radiology Case Reports: interactive case display!This unique feature allows you to view your and other's cases almost as on your own workstation!Scroll functions allow you to move up and sown through the image stackWindow and level capability to make structures more conspicuous (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149167 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:01:25 +0100 3149167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139136&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fradiology-case-gallery-improvements-associated-literature-references-and-peer-reviewed-radiology-resources.html There is no end!We did this weekend many improvements on the Radiology case gallery in Radiolopolis.A final improvement is the embedding of several educational and research resources. A new tab has been added to each case that displays related latest publications for the discussed entity (thanks to PubRad - www.pubrad.org). Another educational feature is the embedding of the peer-reviewed and Radiology specific search engine Search Radiology (www.searchradiology.com) thaRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139136 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:14:48 +0100 3139136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3135593&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fradiology-case-gallery-improved-discussions-for-all-images-shared.html Dear Radiolopolis members - long wished and now came true:Until now case gallery discussions were only shared for each individual image. Therefore it happened that parallel discussions were held for one and the same case but for different images and members did not now about it. This has been changed now and all discussions that are related to a specific case are shared alltogether.Thank you for all of your suggestions!More to come... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3135593 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:17:50 +0100 3135593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3135561&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FPfSeBAq3PEw%2F URL: http://www.nasponline.org/Welcome to the NASP website! The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) is a not-for-profit association representing more than 25,000 school psychologists from across the United States and abroad. Our mission is to represent and support school psychology with leadership to enhance the mental health and educational competence of all children. Partnering with all who share our commitment to children and youth is critical to our work. This website supports that effort and is a remarkable resource for school psychologists, parents, educators, and others interested in helping children and their families. For: CliniciansTopics: Child and Adolescent, General Psychology, Parenting, Pediatric Depression, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, Varied, YouthFeature... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3135561 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:00:41 +0100 3135561 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089309&cid=t_317260_101_f&fid=38969&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheemtspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2F15%2Freasons-why-you-should-be-a-better-emt%2F Sure, this site isall about being a better EMT, but perhaps you’ve asked yourself, “Why?” OK, granted, it was probably one of your more cynical moments. Perhaps you had a bad day, a couple of frusrating calls or a less than optimal interaction with a patient, your partner, another agency, your boss … or perhaps all of the above. Then you went out and threw down your stethoscope. Or maybe you didn’t throw it down because you remembered it was a Litman and a gift from your aunt, but you raised it over your head and thought about it. And while that stethoscope dangled over your head in your clenched fist you thought, “Why? Why do I work so hard to try to be better at a job that pays so little and offers so little in return?” “Why?” We&#821... The EMT Spot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089309 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:02:52 +0100 3089309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3084752&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D8122 The NST reported that an International Medical University is planned in the state of Perak. An international medical university will be built in Perak next year in collaboration with several leading universities, mainly from India, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said yesterday. He said the project, which would involve an investment of RM7 billion to RM8 billion, had been planned for the past two years through private initiatives and the state government would have equity in it. “It’s some kind of (university) consortium. Initially, the Malaysian-based company will invest RM300 million. We hope they can start operation by next year with a minimum intake. They can have pre-university courses first,” he said at a meeting with Malaysian students in the United... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3084752 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3084752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3067171&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fdecember-issue-of-the-journal-of-radiology-case-reports.html The Journal of Radiology Case Reports has just published its December issueVol 3, No 12 (2009)Journal of Radiology Case Reports December 2009 issue Table of ContentsGeneral Radiology (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3067171 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:08:11 +0100 3067171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056700&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FGPIPp0TPoIs%2F URL: http://www.abacon.com/lefton/handbk.htmlFrom the University Instructional Development Project of the Graduate School of the University of South Carolina–this is a step by step guide on how to teach psychology. For: Students, TeachersTopics: Psycho-education, Teaching, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Careers, Information, Links, Training, e-learning From the University Instructional Development Project of the Graduate School of the University of South Carolina–this is a step by step guide on how to teach psychology.  Very good for a student training to become a teaching psychologist. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056700 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:51 +0100 3056700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992743&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fnovember-issue-of-the-journal-of-radiology-case-reports.html The Journal of Radiology Case Reports has just published its November issueVol 3, No 11 (2009)Journal of Radiology Case Reports November 2009 issueTable of ContentsNeuroradiology (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992743 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:45:56 +0100 2992743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939339&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2Fnz36tQDstNs%2Flets_fund_these_projects_for_d.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty This is a poll. I will show you two pictures, and ask you to tell me which picture is more symmetric. Your votes are tabulated after you've clicked on that picture: Now that you've participated in my little poll, I want to share some information about my own fund-raising efforts for DonorsChoose: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939339 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:18:30 +0100 2939339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939341&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2Fp_1g0at6IT4%2Fmoochas_smoochas_to_all_my_don.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty Here's the latest news from DonorsChoose: collectively, all of the blog writers and the 4,038 citizen philanthropists who participated in the Social Media Challenge have raised more than $565,000 to help more than 99,000 students in public schools throughout the US!!! I think this is amazing! JUST the ScienceBloggers team has raised an astonishing $54,358 from 244 citizen philanthropists (my blog has raised $5,646.31 so far -- last year, the ScienceBlogs team raised $38,000 and my blog raised $2,884.55) But there's still three days to go, and I want all of us to continue raising money to help impoverished classroom kids make progress towards realizing their dreams. We have three days left, let's do everything we... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939341 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:40:54 +0100 2939341 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2931015&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FqmNY2xZmUm4%2Fto_all_my_visitors_help_me_cel.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I am so lucky to be enjoying a flood of thousands of unique visitors right now, so much so that my blog will surpass the 4 million visits mark in an hour or less. To celebrate this incredible landmark, I ask you -- all of you -- to donate to a DonorsChoose classroom! DonorsChoose is a non-profit fund-raising agency that provides money to teachers throughout the United States to help "their kids" improve their education. I chose specific classrooms to help -- my "Challenge" students -- that focus on classrooms that are (a) high-poverty and (b) are requesting funds to help improve science education. It isn't every day that a blog surpasses 4 million visits, and it isn't every day that you have the opportunity to he... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2931015 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:48:10 +0100 2931015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927338&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FWW8oLr6qVmw%2Fhedwig_the_owl_gives_a_hoot.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty How many of you are Harry Potter fans, or know someone who is? How about all those millions of kids in the United States who are crazy about Harry Potter and his amazing owl, Hedwig? So don't you think this makes owls a special bridge between kids and the worlds of imagination and literature and nature and science? I certainly think it does, so of course, I think this wonderful DonorsChoose project, Who Gives a "Hoot" About Owls! is a superb classroom lesson to interest this high-poverty classroom of 120 third graders in science, nature and birds. How can we, as responsible environmentally-sensitive adults, miss this amazing opportunity to reach these kids and change their lives? This is such a superb teaching o... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927338 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:59:19 +0100 2927338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2924832&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FJVK9Hz9Nqc0%2Fcongratulations_we_qualify_for.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I am so excited and so proud of YOU, my beautiful readers, for donating your precious and limited dollars to help kids in impoverished classrooms continue their journey towards claiming a brighter future through education. As of a few minutes ago, we raised the minimum of $2500 in DonorsChoose funds, which qualifies us for at least $2000 in matching funds from Hewlett-Packard! However, I have a confession to make: I am a selfish bastard because I want MORE MORE MORE of those precious HP funds to share with impoverished kids throughout the United States! So don't relax yet: let's continue donating so we can win even MORE funds from Hewlett-Packard! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post..... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2924832 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:04:05 +0100 2924832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2924861&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F24%2Fthe-catch%2F I’ve been having intermittent bouts of vertigo (some severe), along with worsening tinnitus and resulting difficulty understanding what people are saying. My GP said I got poor results on the tympanogram, and is sending me to an ENT, whom I see next week.  I’m no longer driving on the highway, and take extra care if [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2924861 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:52:18 +0100 2924861 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923290&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2F6oqElzV6gVY%2Fcapture_some_of_the_magic_in_t.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I have a confession to make: I love ant farms. I love them so much that one of my readers bought me an ant farm to cheer me up shortly after I lost my funding and was experiencing a long run of bad luck in my job search -- the financial stress and loss of self esteem were almost unbearable. But even though I am an adult (well, I'm told I look like an adult), I found hours of joy watching "my ants." But imagine how eye-opening an ant farm would be for a bunch of impoverished second-graders who have never seen or experienced how these fascinating little insects live? As if that is not enough, how about adding a microscope and a set of prepared slides to the package? By the time I was in second grade, I had only se... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923290 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:59:23 +0100 2923290 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923293&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FTkua65S9eHE%2Fcalling_all_my_donorschoose_do.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I thought DonorsChoose would send me all my donors' contact information, but apparently they don't, so I need you to send me a copy of the email receipt you received from DonorsChoose so I can enter you in as many prize drawings as possible. Of course, I also need your mailing address along with this receipt because I am leaving the country two weeks after this fund raising effort has ended, so I want to get everything mailed to you as soon as possible because I can't afford to mail prizes from Germany! (especially since I gave all my money to DonorsChoose!) What are these cool prizes that you qualify for? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (S... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923293 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:40:59 +0100 2923293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923294&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FPXmrwPhMJpM%2Fonly_514_away_from_our_sunday.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty One of my donors, Hewlett-Packard, has notified me that they are willing to provide my Challenge classrooms with an additional $2000 IF I manage to raise a total of $2500 by Sunday. That means we're only $514 away from being able to nearly double our ability to help impoverished classrooms throughout the United States! I've already donated $300, so I am completely tapped out, so I am asking you: please donate to my DonorsChoose classrooms! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923294 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:30:04 +0100 2923294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2920224&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2F6oZiIBbYgK0%2Ffor_the_birds_increasing_diver_1.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I am focusing on this project, For the Birds!, because it targets fifth grade kids, the perfect age to get them interested in birds for life. Further, this is a high-poverty classroom in NYC (my home), and I wish to help the kids here develop an appreciation for the glorious bird life that migrates through here and resides in this large city. But this is an expensive project because they are asking for 15 binoculars for a classroom of 30 kids, so I donated $300 to this project to get it started. Will you donate money to help me help this classroom? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2920224 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:56 +0100 2920224 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2920228&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FXbm1YMdBqOs%2Fhelp_increase_science_educatio.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty One of my donors, Hewlett-Packard, has notified me that they are willing to provide my Challenge classrooms with $2000 IF I manage to raise a total of $2500 by Sunday. That means we're only $1000 away from being able to nearly double our ability to help impoverished classrooms throughout the United States! I've already donated $300, so I am completely tapped out, so I am asking you: please donate to my DonorsChoose classrooms! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2920228 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:59:09 +0100 2920228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912226&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FbfxkfqAgkOE%2Fwin_the_best_prize_in_the_whol.php tags: SEM, ASPEX Corp, DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty Would you like a FREE, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of an object that you've always wanted to see really close up? Stephanie at ASPEX Corporation has offered a free SEM scan as a prize to one lucky person who donates to my DonorsChoose Challenge! If you win, you could send them anything to scan (as long as it fits into an envelope); lunch room mystery meat, a fingernail clipping, or even a dead insect .. anything you'd like to see a picture of under a powerful microscope. Here's an image gallery of objects they've already scanned, and you are free to choose your own object to add to the collection! How do you win this glorious prize? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comment... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912226 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:56 +0100 2912226 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912231&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FM-E6lJGezSM%2Ffor_the_birds_increasing_diver.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I am focusing on this project, For the Birds!, because it targets fifth grade kids, the perfect age to get them interested in birds for life. Further, this is a high-poverty classroom in NYC (my home), and I wish to help the kids here develop an appreciation for the glorious bird life that migrates through here and resides in this large city. But this is an expensive project because they are asking for 15 binoculars for a classroom of 30 kids, so I donated $300 to this project to get it started. Will you donate money to help me help this classroom? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912231 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:16 +0100 2912231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912232&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FrOrjcZCQJnU%2Fdonorschoose_a_donor_challenge.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty One of my donors, HP, has provided $200,000 to the DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge BUT to win these funds for our science classrooms, all of us must donate more money. Here's what DonorsChoose writes; HP has been tracking the competition closely and has already made a $50 contribution to your page, as a result of all of your hard work. The good news? HP wants to make yet another contribution to your Giving Page. The more you raise by this Sunday, October 25, the more HP will contribute! Next week, we will distribute $200,000, the rest of HP's contribution, to all Social Media Challenge Giving Pages. But this time, your share will be calculated on a pro-rata basis based on the amount you've raised by Sunda... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912232 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:59:06 +0100 2912232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912314&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fmore-connectivity-interactivity-and-education-the-new-radiolopolis.html The new Radiolopolis generation has been released!More connectivity, interactivity and education!Improved group discussions: In the past, our general discussion forums and the group forums have been running separately and independently. Now, the groups have been connected also with our general discussion forums and are exposed to a larger audience. Each group can eitehr create an individual/designated subforum or they can be connected with some of our pre-existing subRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912314 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:33:11 +0100 2912314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908637&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2F-n7LGIL6DUc%2Fdonorschoose_donate_to_improve.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty Four projects in my "Biology is Life" Challenge have been fully funded, and the teachers for each project have posted thank you letters that you can read here: The Viking Shark Project, the Cow Eye Dissection project, the Please Pass Me the Scalpel, Nurse project, and the A Room Without A View project. We need to do more to help impoverished kids, so please check out the unfunded proposals in the "Biology is Life" Challenge that still need your help by clicking on the above widget. And don't forget, Princeton University Press is providing gifts of free books to those who donate to my Challenge (more below the jump); Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientif... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908637 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:59:46 +0100 2908637 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902923&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fr_Sp2kEO2cI%2F “Massachusetts may have the best health care in the country, but it doesn’t cover the treatment for the fastest-growing health threat to children – autism,” writes ex-NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, in the Boston Globe. “More than 500 babies born this year in Massachusetts will soon be diagnosed with autism. What their parents will learn first – what my wife, Laurie, and I have learned from our son Dougie – is that while the hopes and dreams for their child may change, they will also intensify.” A touchdown statement if I ever heard one. And here’s the extra point from the head the Flutie foundation for autism: “Parents will … be dismayed to discover that, though they’ve always paid their health care premiums, their health plans... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902923 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:59:22 +0100 2902923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2901667&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FEnNJDgQvAo8%2Fdonorschoose_update_a_great_wa_3.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty National Wildlife Refuges Week (11-17 October 2009) is almost over already, but we've made good progress because four projects in my "Biology is Life" Challenge have been fully funded! The teachers for each project have posted thank you letters that you can read here: The Viking Shark Project, the Cow Eye Dissection project, the Please Pass Me the Scalpel, Nurse project, and the A Room Without A View project. There are more proposals in the "Biology is Life" Challenge that need your help, so be sure to check them out by clicking on the above widget. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2901667 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:59:29 +0100 2901667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890571&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FDlzGm1XyPRQ%2F Melissa Rethlefsen does it again with another great screencast: [via: http://liblog.mayo.edu/2009/10/13/video-tutorial-my-ncbi-custom-filters-and-sharing-collections/] Melissa rules. _______________ Feed-only Footer: [This space for rent] Want to reach about 3,500 RSS subscribers to this feed? Please get in touch. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890571 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:56:03 +0100 2890571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890687&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FQ0VAytkKFEM%2Fdonorschoose_update_a_great_wa_2.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty National Wildlife Refuges Week (11-17 October 2009) has is half over already, but we've made good progress because four projects in my "Biology is Life" Challenge have been fully funded! The teachers for each project have posted thank you letters that you can read here: The Viking Shark Project, the Cow Eye Dissection project, the Please Pass Me the Scalpel, Nurse project, and the A Room Without A View project. There are more proposals in the "Biology is Life" Challenge that need your help, so be sure to check them out by clicking on the above widget. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890687 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:59:16 +0100 2890687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2886477&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2Fi1InigxKuzY%2Fdonorschoose_update_a_great_wa_1.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty Nobel Prize week has ended wonderfully: four projects that I included in my "Biology is Life" Challenge have been fully funded! The teachers for each project have posted thank you letters that you can read here: The Viking Shark Project, the Cow Eye Dissection project, the Please Pass Me the Scalpel, Nurse project, and the A Room Without A View project. There are more proposals that need your help, so be sure to check them out by clicking on the above widget. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2886477 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:59:25 +0100 2886477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2881292&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FrD6b9N3hKxA%2F The Net has certainly let loose the dogs of both support and criticism for some parents of children with ASD. In El Paso, Texas, parents and teachers around the world have chimed in regarding a 10-year-old with boy with Asperger’s who got a ticket for $260 for disrupting class. Students can be ticketed and their parents fined in the state for such actions, and the mom says her son kept falling asleep in class, made noise in the hall, and got down on the floor and refused to get up. She agrees the behavior is not okay and that he should be punished, but she disagrees that this punishment was “suitable” for what her son did, claiming he he didn’t hurt anyone or break anything. The ticket was later dismissed.  Local news outlet KFOX got several e-mails and comments rega... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2881292 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:09:11 +0100 2881292 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871841&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Foctober-issue-of-the-journal-of-radiology-case-reports-published.html The Journal of Radiology Case Reports has just published its October issueVol 3, No 10 (2009)Journal of Radiology Case Reports October 2009 issue (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871841 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:45:44 +0100 2871841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865704&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FP9BagS8oZIE%2Fdonorschoose_challenge_focus_t.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I am focusing on this project, The Viking Shark Project, because there are only four days left to fund this proposal before the deadline passes and 70 students from an impoverished high-crime magnet classroom are left wanting -- AGAIN! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865704 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:06:31 +0100 2865704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865705&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FKfrJKYoFmz0%2Fprinceton_university_press_sup.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty What better way is there to celebrate the Nobel Prizes than by helping kids in impoverished classrooms throughout the nation begin their own pursuit of their dreams? By helping kids improve their science education, you will be helping them focus on the positive aspects of their lives and give them an outlet for their energy so they realize that they do have a future! To learn about the proposals that I've chosen to be funded (I do add proposals to my Challenge every few days), click on the above widget (if you use AdBlock, you will instead need to click here to view my Challenge), or, if you find a proposal that you wish me to add to my DonorsChoose Challenge, please do email the link to me and I'll add it! Read... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865705 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:30:53 +0100 2865705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865710&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2Fo3KKnAy-Wp0%2Fdonorschoose_update_a_great_wa.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty The first day of Nobel Prize week has started off wonderfully: Diana from Omaha, Nebraska donated enough money to complete one DonorsChoose project that I included in my DonorsChallenge! Appropriately enough, in this project, Please Pass Me the Scalpel, Nurse, the teacher was asking for funds to help her students in a high-poverty classroom in Washington state gain more knowledge of medicine through the purchase of dissecting kits. There are more proposals that need your help, so be sure to check them out by clicking on the above widget. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865710 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0100 2865710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851813&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2Fx8wtnSs18sw%2Fdonorschoose_update_my_first_d.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty I just looked at my blog and noticed that my first DonorsChoose donor has made a donation and has spoken! Who will be next? Perhaps you will be next donor in defense of science and intellectual development for everyone, regardless of their socioeconomic class? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851813 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:41:41 +0100 2851813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851816&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FQp7FywJfmq4%2Foctober_is_donorschoose_month.php tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty October is my favorite month of the year because this is when we, the public, get together to support public education by donating money to the DonorsChoose.org's Blogger Challenge 2009! DonorsChoose.org is a charity that uses your donations to purchase specific items and materials for classroom projects that the teacher has requested, and they send these materials directly to the classroom. Basically, this is a "fraud free" way to support public education and to help needy kids have the same educational experiences that helped to change and improve your life. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851816 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:59:40 +0100 2851816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846566&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Ftbb554LxvTo%2F This is kind of eye-catching (especially if you have Jill’s eye), from a review in today’s New York Times TV section of “The Middle,” which premiers tonight: ”The youngest child, Brick (Atticus Shaffer), is peculiar, and not in a cute way, which makes him all the more appealing. His teacher describes him as ‘clinically quirky’ and wants him tested. ‘I just hope that he’s weird enough that our insurance covers it,’” says one character. Tested for? How weird would that have to be, exactly? Could the money-counters who govern prime time entertainment finally be realizing that one of every 150 kids could translate into a lot of interest from would-be sponsors? * * * President Obama has announced $5 billion in new research grants to... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846566 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:08:58 +0100 2846566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846372&cid=t_317260_90_f&fid=34613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.usask.ca%2Fmedical_education%2Farchive%2F2009%2F09%2Fbest_practices.html At the recent International Conference on Residency Education, several speakers emphasized the importance of planning when using expensive simulation labs. Residents who train exclusively on high fidelity simulators frequently complain about the complexity and confusion of learning in this manner. I decided to write an article about the best way to plan the use of 4-step progressive simulations. Preplanning a. Begin by analyzing what competencies should be taught in this manner. Dangerous, painful, rare and embarrassing procedures make the best candidates. Determine what level of competency is required depending on the level of the resident. Set objectives for each stage. b. Create learning activities including written instructions for each level of the progressive process described in ... Medical Education Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846372 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:30:37 +0100 2846372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846425&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FkZijbm_D5U4%2F URL: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Presented by the University of Washington and Yale University, there are different assessments that don’t take much time to take (usually five minutes or less) and have different things in them–such as gender, race, names, presidents, etc. When you take the assessment, you pick what you feel is related to that name or meaning. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, Teachers, ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Mental Health, Psychology and Technology, Teaching, Writing, Academia, Behaviour Management, Cognitive, TeachingFeatures: Author Lists, Books, Databases, Information, Journals, Assessment Instruments, Clinical Tools, InformationI actually too... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846425 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:37 +0100 2846425 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2842721&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FymxmocolWic%2F UCLA has a class that offers an instruction to ASD teens that’s often lacking from a menu of therapies: How to make friends. The teen years are tough enough, but for those with ASD this time could only be a nightmare in terms of interacting with peers. The UCLA program teaches its 33 students (28 of them male) to watch for all the social clues they might commonly miss — body language, hand gestures, facial expressions, speech inflections — and try to turn those improved interpretations into connections. The class, called PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills), involves students meeting once a week for 12 weeks for 90-minute sessions, with instruction given in groups of seven to 10 teens. Parents were also required to attend separate, conc... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2842721 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:50:15 +0100 2842721 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2839122&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FJd4ToJExyfY%2F The Fraser Child & Family Center in Minneapolis found a new way to reach ASD students: through headphones and iPods. The devices play music and videos to teach these students how to fit in. Fraser staff came up with the idea of programming iPods to act as an electronic substitute for “that missing [inner) voice for those with Asperger's, the voice that governs appropriate behavior. Staff have helped students create short videos and slide shows on how to behave in different social settings: How to carry on a conversation; how to respect other people’s boundaries and think before they speak; and others. The Autism Society of America says similar projects are popping up around the country, and include adaptations for smart phones, Palm Pilots and other devices. Photo courtesy of l... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2839122 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:06:53 +0100 2839122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828160&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fvirtual-surgery-for-new-surgeons%2F Here’s something you might not want to know. Most surgeons learn how to perform surgery on real live patients. Sure, they start off as students practicing on cadavers but mostly, they learn by performing actual surgical procedures under the guidance of senior surgeons. However, researchers are looking to technology to change this learning pattern and have created virtual patient simulators for residents to practice on before using a scalpel on real patients. Clinical trials are currently being held at the Stanford University School of Medicine to test the effectiveness of this virtual reality training. They are integrating data from patient’s pre-op CT scans into a virtual patient simulator. The simulator consists of a endoscopic camera and mannequin head that is attached to a touch-fe... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828160 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:48:02 +0100 2828160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2809655&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D7895 Medical students during my time used to carry flashcards or notepads with notes and scribblings to help them recall things they learned. This was in the 20th century. Have you heard of Evernote? We mentioned in an earlier post that If you are a doctor, you should be using Evernote Now here’s a cool video of how a medical student, Ryan MacDonald, uses Evernote as a peripheral brain. The knowledge he has gathered for his use is accessible to him from any Internet connected PC and PDA phone which can run Evernote (that includes iPhone, Windows mobile, the new Palm WebOS and any smartphone with a browser) Using Evernote as a medical peripheral Brain! from Ryan MacDonald on Vimeo. from the Malaysian Medical Resources Tip: Using Evernote as your peripheral brain (Source: Malaysian Medical... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2809655 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2809655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2785978&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neurosciencemarketing.com%2Fblog%2Farticles%2Fpraise-your-child.htm I don’t often get into neuro-parenting here, but I thought this particular research finding was interesting enough to single out. (I mentioned it in my Managing by Mistakes post last week, too.) The short story is that a lot of what parents and teachers think about praising children and building self-esteem is dead wrong. [...] Related posts:Managing by MistakesPreschool Branding?Nonprofit Marketing: The Power of Personalization (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2785978 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:38:30 +0100 2785978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782252&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F0C-a34DYUiE%2F Photo courtesy of kyz (flickr.com) We continue our week of spectrum artwork today! * * * A Book for Our Times: Understanding Jason (AuthorHouse) is a new book written by Marsha Rae Osborn and illustrated by DeOnna Mills, and it tells the story of a group of typical students who learn from their teacher how to accept and help an autistic student, Jason, fit in with their class. (Osborn is an RN and the mother of twin boys, one of whom has autism.) Told in rhymes, Jason seems typical of the kinds of titles we need to see more of. (”We don’t understand,” kids say, “Why does Jason act that way? He is different from us all, He can’t even catch a ball …”). I’ve always held that typically developing children often only benefit from learning about t... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782252 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:53:10 +0100 2782252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796556&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fseptember-issue-of-the-journal-of-radiology-case-reports-published.html The Journal of Radiology Case Reports has just published its September issueVol 3, No 9 (2009)Journal of Radiology Case Reports September 2009 issue Table of ContentsCardiac Imaging (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796556 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:13:09 +0100 2796556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2774838&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FCoy8E9uqRv4%2F Yesterday we faced the familiar problem of getting the kids to clean up the living room. Ned, typically developing, was the usual sour-faced/hopeless case in this regard, but Alex has shown a willingness to scurry about and put things away if properly motivated. For a long time, I used a pointer (a “stick”), feeling like Patton as I slapped the pointer on toy after toy to be removed from the floor. Image courtesy of Tim Morgan (flickr.com) Yesterday, however, I hit upon a new idea. I sat Alex down by his pile of strewn plastic animals, grabbed an index card and a pen, and wrote, “Pick up the animals, please.” I took his finger and guided it across the words and made him read each word. Those he didn’t know, I pronounced for him. “Pick up the … anim... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2774838 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:45:33 +0100 2774838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772671&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FmPIF0UWIvSQ%2F The online version of The Jerusalem Post has run a great essay on autism and special needs in the Jewish community. Essentially positive, the piece doesn’t gloss over the friction religious institutions seem to occasionally spark with special needs families (”One family told us about being asked by their rabbi not to return to the synagogue anymore … Their child liked to be too close to the Torah!”). Photo courtesy of zeevveez (flickr.com) *    *    * “I wonder if our pediatrician would give us  a prescription for a mild sedative for Alex to go to the dentist?” Jill wonders. Good idea. Now we just need to find a dentist with our now-spotty dental insurance situation… *    *    * A Willmar, Minn., special education teacher has compil... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772671 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:23:56 +0100 2772671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796557&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fhow-to-tutorial-for-the-case-of-the-week.html This tutorial explains, how to efficiently create a Radiology teaching file and submit it for the "Case of the Week".First, log into Radiolopolis (www.radiolopolis.com). Then you will see a link "My teaching files" in your left menu (screenshot 1). Screenshot 1  After  you clicked on the link "My teaching files" yoRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796557 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:14:12 +0100 2796557 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796558&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fgroups-improved-new-features-added-to-groups.html We jus added several new useful features to all groups on Radiolopolis: a peer-reviewed Radiology search engine and a PubMed/Medline search capability.  These features are in cooperation with the awarded programs Radiology Search (www.RadiologySearch.net)  and PubRad (www.PubRad.org). Both programs have been presented on multiple international Radiology meetings, such as RSNA, ARRS, ECR, ICR and more.You may find both features in the right bottom of the/your group page (see rRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796558 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:54:11 +0100 2796558 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2758022&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FVdGjnynngqU%2F The site I Teach Autism is an excellent resource for the coming school year. Almost 20 sites and blogs are mentioned, and awareness materials offered for sale. I Teach also offers tips on parent/student/educator cooperation, a few of which we hope to post here before, as the Staples commerical once put it, “the most wonderful time of the year” begins again. Especially useful: tools for teachers, including transition tips, picture communication examples, and peer initiation strategies. * * * Our note about the young Michigan woman with autism who has carved out a living cutting rags gave us great hope for Alex at precisely the right time of his life. We join many parents of children with autism, I think, in being terrified of our kids’ adulthoods in terms of care and l... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2758022 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:54:06 +0100 2758022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757701&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fbook-review-the-resilient-child%2F Want to learn how to stress-proof your kids and help them learn skills and techniques to cope with all the life can throw at them? Then check out this book by Dr George S Everly Jr,  a leading expert in the field of stress management. Everly,  who predominantly counsels victims of life’s toughest moments, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina, wrote this book as a gift to his own children. In fact, it is a gift to all parents and children who have the opportunity to read and take on board it’s lessons. Called The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for Your Child’s Happiness and Success, the book offers parents a way to teach child the basic skills need to develop inner strength to cope with stress and adversity. Using the ABCs (Action, Belief, and Cod... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757701 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:30:48 +0100 2757701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2758023&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FTOfY2x_U2bQ%2F Owner and operator Lisa Witte, 29 and diagnosed at age 2 with autism, has cut a place for herself in the world at Lisa’s Quality Rags, based in Wyoming, Mich. Witte can’t read, write or talk beyond saying, “Hi, I’m Lisa,” and sometimes parroting what others say (sounds like Alex), but she’s turned a decade and a half of training by Goodwill Industries into a profitable business. She began by taking clothes out of boxes and putting them on hangers, but her aide soon saw she could do a lot more, becoming by last summer a veteran rag cutter, producing half a ton of rags monthly. When Goodwill’s government funding for Witte’s program evaporated, her family decided to set her up in her own rag-cutting business. Goodwill sold three cutting machine... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2758023 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:15:46 +0100 2758023 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741381&cid=t_317260_90_f&fid=34613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.usask.ca%2Fmedical_education%2Farchive%2F2009%2F08%2F_making_the_imp.html I have been thinking about how we help students become aware of the thinking processes (pattern making, creative analysis) that we use everyday to solve problems. These processes have become habits that we rarely think about but students who see us travel from A-H see something magical or worse think we are taking shortcuts because we don't show them the underlying knowledge we use. The picture below comes from the article Role Modelling by Cruess and Steinert. I think its a great way to think about helping our students become aware of the implicit. Before the student arrives 1. Pick two or three things you do very well and break these procedures/techniques down into steps that the student needs to know in order to replicate what you do. 2. Create two or three illness scripts f... Medical Education Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741381 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:11:39 +0100 2741381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741475&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=34670&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsumerdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fradiology-teaching-files-for-iphone.html Readers who have an iPhone or iTouch, might like to know that the first Radiopaedia Radiology Teaching File is now available for download (free) from the itunes app store. 50 CNS cases comprising 170 images, questions and detailed text. Just search for radiology and you should find it easily enough. From Sumer's Radiology Site http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com -The Top Radiology Magazine. Teleradiology Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at teleradproviders@gmail.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site) Sumer's Radiology Site blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741475 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:24:00 +0100 2741475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2734201&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FnMGlv0o1OWA%2F I know other families whose kids have autism. Yes, sometimes more than one child in the family with autism, and I really don’t know how they keep it together. I have to admit I think we’re doing a fairly terrible job a lot of the time with just one. photo courtesy of r0Kk (flickr.com) We haven’t done ABA with Alex (long story and not interesting, so I’m not going to go into it). I used to feel bad; then I recalled children I know who have had years of ABA and whose behavior is not so very different from Alex’s. And if you look online there is plenty of criticism about ABA being too rigid or too target-specific rather than behavior general. (Of course there is good ABA, too.) But still. If Alex had had years of ABA would he be functioning at a higher level? Ale... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2734201 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:16:51 +0100 2734201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727354&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FdyVQIWg1i1g%2F Adult autism is bound to become a huge topic in coming years, and several institutions are moving to anticipate the need. Massachusetts General Hospital is creating a program to provide specialized medical care to adults with autism. The hospital expects to receive $29 million to help add “a major adult component to its pediatric autism program,” allowing the the hospital to expand services for children with autism. The hospital notes, not that many parents of the adult autistic needed to hear it, that some doctors are hesitant or unsure how to talk to and examine adult autistic patients. *   *    * Photo courtesy of gadgetdude (flickr.com) Arizona State University has added a master’s program in special education. Officials at the school claim that one of the motiv... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727354 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:58:06 +0100 2727354 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796560&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fradiology-case-of-the-week-opened-.html As a new educational treasure on Radiolopolis, we just implemented the new Radiology "Case of the Week". Each week, we present you with a new teaching file created by our affiliated teaching file server Radiology Teacher. The Case of the Week presents with several multiple choice questions. You may test your Radiology knowledge and receive yiur scores and detailed explanations for the teaching file. You may access the Case of the Week by several ways:ClicRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796560 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:36:57 +0100 2796560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2716011&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F20%2Fwelcome-to-the-ivory-tower-internet%2F My daughter shares this story: Research is to English majors what coffee is to the general college student. Essays are ramen and reading material naps, if you’re curious. (Note that literal naps often overlap with these figurative ones.) So caught up in the glee of primary sources and minutia of MLA, we forget that not all [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2716011 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:59:49 +0100 2716011 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712052&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F8VkY-jY7SCU%2F This kind of blog is sooooo useful to searchers like me who are clearly less experienced and expert than the author of PubMed Search Strategies, Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S. “This blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies. Search strategies posted here are not perfect. They are posted in the hope that others will benefit from the work already put into their creation and/or will offer suggestions for improvements. Librarians who wish to post comments on this blog or who wish to become authors are invited to e-mail me.” Example post shown below: [via: Melissa Rethlefsen and Mark Rabnett] Have you checked out our book yet? Here are a few other books I think are essential. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712052 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:30:29 +0100 2712052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2705293&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fi2dQ7OqTK8I%2F The latter part of our Q.-and A. with Ernst VanBergeijk, associate dean and executive director of the New York Institute of Technology’s Vocational Independence Program (VIP), a certificate program for adult students with learning disabilities. Q: Do you know of any other programs like it in the country? EVB: There are many great programs that provide transitional services to individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities. However, very few are college based, i.e., are a part of a college like VIP. Q:How are these programs run? EVB: Most are based in an apartment complex and affiliated with either a community college or a 4-year college. That means the employees of the program work for a private entity and are not employees of the college. The employees of the affili... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2705293 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:28:05 +0100 2705293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2670765&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2Fuf8gZOlgThY%2F What New Users Should Know (How is Quertle® different?) 1. Find true relationships, not simple co-occurrences On Quertle, if you search for two or more terms, you will find documents in which those terms occur in a conceptual relationship, not simply scattered within the same document. You won’t always find as many, but you weren’t really going to read 14,578 documents, were you? 2. Quertle understands biology and chemistry Quertle understands the difference between “TWIST”, the helix-loop-helix transcription factor, and “twist”, the verb. So, use proper capitalization in your query, and you won’t be lost in a sea of irrelevant results. 3. Power Terms™ enable you to query for categories of objects Use Power Terms™ to query for categories of ob... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2670765 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:02:02 +0100 2670765 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2667628&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FxwfRVho5dyg%2F Not that Ned doesn’t have such an inner voice, but Alex seems to just have the drive to help. I don’t know how much of this has been domestic training and how much just Alex doing what comes naturally, but who cares when the laundry’s piled up? “Alex! Shorts! Top drawer, please.” I hand him the four or five pair, neatly folded since I don’t think he can do that yet. Off he goes into his bedroom, and the odds are actually 3:1 that when I go in there in a few minutes I will in fact find the underwear in the top drawer and not thrown on the beds or the floor. It’s not in the right place in the top drawer, but there’s no way I’m going to be that picky. “Alex, socks! Top drawer please! And come right back for the pants.” And he d... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2667628 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:53:24 +0100 2667628 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2657853&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FlRrBTfkb4dQ%2F Jeff: Tonight we thought we’d do a more direct version of the two versions of life with an autistic child: me typing and then Jill typing. What do you want to talk about, Jill? photo courtesy of dalehugo (flickr.com) Jill: How handsome I think you are? How I think you yell too much? Jeff: I like the first one, but I’m sure you’ll want to discuss the second. Jill: You’re right, dear. As usual. Jeff: All right. Tonight I yelled at Alex because he was up too late and chattering, and he knew he was disrupting the movie we had every right to watch after all the “Elmo” and “Sesame Street” we’ve let him watch without our sitting on the couch rocking our body and giggling. What do you think? Jill: I agree… sort of. Definitely we have th... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2657853 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:54:37 +0100 2657853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2653692&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D7516 PDF in an online presentation format (using PdfMeNot.com) of slides by Dr. Christopher Lee (original source from MOH) (view Online presentation in new window) from the Malaysian Medical Resources Influenza A #H1N1 Managing the 2009 Pan Flu patient (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources) Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2653692 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2653692 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645301&cid=t_317260_90_f&fid=34613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.usask.ca%2Fmedical_education%2Farchive%2F2009%2F07%2Fbuilding_a_coll.html One of the most frequent issues raised by instructors who are trying to move from a teacher-centred to a team-centred classroom is “How do I get students to collaborate effectively?” The answer is not a simple one because most North American students arrive in the medical classroom from a learning environment that encouraged competition and frequently feared collaboration between students was a doorway to cheating. Many of the most successful students in this environment viewed collaborative activities as a plot to improve the grades of poor students at their expense. So you need to help students learn to collaborate and I suggest you begin that process by familiarizing yourself with Dr. J. Salmons’ Five Levels of Collaboration, which progress from least trust required to unconscio... Medical Education Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645301 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:23:47 +0100 2645301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2594486&cid=t_317260_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FGQqp915uphY%2F I’ll admit I’ve been very late to this iPhone bandwagon. Despite working in a technology, I still have an old (old!) cell phone that I barely use. That’s why this news about a new, life-saving app on the iPhone really caught my eye. The application, called Pocket First Aid & CPR was “created by the American Heart Association in collaboration with Jive Media.” It features instructions on how to do CPR, save someone from choking, deal with burns or diabetic emergencies, and all kinds of handy dandy medical info. While it’s no substitute for a medical professional, if you were in a bind and needed to jump in and help someone, it would be a very good resource. Image: Morguefile. Share and Enjoy: Post from: Blisstree iPhone Cou... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2594486 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:33:11 +0100 2594486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2572898&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F06%2Feducation-for-primary-care-2009-vol-20-no-3%2F Contents Page Fade Fave: Developing a set of quality criteria for community-based medical education in the UK. Fade Skinny: General practices educate increasing numbers of learners at various stages. Criteria for educational provision exist, but practices supporting learners at different stages and from different institutions might face different criteria. Contact the Library for a copy of this article Posted in Current Awareness, Journals Tagged: Criteria, Medical Education, Postgraduate Education, Postgraduate Medical Education, Primary Care, Quality, Teaching, Undergraduate (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2572898 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:33:46 +0100 2572898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2571078&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FfiMlJN1uni4%2F A couple of years ago I began thinking about “The Miracle Worker.” Specifically that moment when Annie Sullivan realizes she’s never going to get through to Helen Keller while she’s at home and her parents indulge her and give her candy whenever she starts to have a tantrum. If only we had a teacher who could take Alex away for two weeks — reach him and teach him, put him in TV detox. Little House by the Apple Tree (photo by Uncle Phooey, flickr.com) I’m ashamed to say Alex does not eat with us at the table. He has some other behaviors we don’t like (constant TV-watching, for one) that we’ve allowed to become entrenched. I guess we might just as well have allowed him to wander from plate to plate, grabbing whatever food pleases him. It began ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2571078 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:22 +0100 2571078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2556182&cid=t_317260_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FIkeNSw7uto8%2F Who doesn’t love Sesame Street? I was hooked on that show as a kid, and for good reason. The show does a wonderful job of teaching children and presenting new ideas in a fun and colorful way. Now, the Sesame Workshop is has distributed 13,000 “child care resource kits” to various child care providers across the United States. The kits will help “integrate healthy eating and activity into daycare settings for preschool children.” If anyone can do it, the people at Sesame Street surely can. If healthy eating becomes a part of children’s everyday lives at a very young age, it will be easier for them to maintain a good diet as they get older. Image: Zuma Press Share and Enjoy: Post from: Blisstree Sesame Street Teaches Good Health... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2556182 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:57:20 +0100 2556182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2528059&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fhm_4AAJ80S4%2F I’m not the world’s biggest Thomas the Tank Engine fan. Too many things to buy. Too many accessories and pieces. Differently sized trains wouldn’t run on all the pieces of track. When Alex and Ned were younger we had some cute Thomas toys (the take-along roundhouse was a big hit with everyone, including me because it stored all its own pieces) but he didn’t seem to have real legs in our house. We put the track and engines away a couple of years ago, and there wasn’t a peep of protest. Apparently, though, a lot of children with autism really like Thomas in part because the facial expressions are so easy to read.  (Here’s a gallery of the many faces of Thomas.) Now an Australian profit has partnered with the smiley-faced engine to create a game whose mi... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2528059 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:43:01 +0100 2528059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510384&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fthis-virtual-heart-pumps-up-the-realism%2F It looks like a real heart. It acts like a real heart. But in reality, it’s only a  super-realistic computer model. Created by a team of doctors from the Heart Hospital in London, this virtual heart is perfect for medical students to get indepth knowledge of the heart’s anatomy. It sure beats staring at a dull anatomy textbook or static model. It can be viewed from both inside and out, rotated around any axis with a simple flick or click of the computer mouse or keyboard.  It can even be made to simulate irregular heart beats and mirror the effects of various conditions and diseases. (source and image) Post from: Healthbolt (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510384 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:48:40 +0100 2510384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473554&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F11%2Fthe-long-and-short-of-it%2F It’s going to be a long day; I can tell already. Last night I finally got eight hours of sleep, aside from several prolonged coughing fits.  The previous three nights I’d only gotten four hours of sleep.  You’d think the extra rest would make me feel better, but I’m still running short on good sleep because [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473554 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:40:34 +0100 2473554 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2470031&cid=t_317260_180_f&fid=38610&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productivity501.com%2Fthe-deadly-well-teaching-to-learn%2F146%2F When you need to remember something you’ve learned, one of the best things you can do is explain your new knowledge to someone else.  When I was studying music theory, I thought I had a firm grasp on the subject.  However, when I went back and taught it to incoming freshmen, I discovered how much better I understood once I had to explain it to others. I still use this technique today.  When there is something that I think I understand, I’ll try to explain it to my wife to help me remember and to see if I understand things as well as I think I do. My mother teaches grade school and uses this principle all the time. When her sister and her sister’s 5 year old grandson were coming to spend a few days on my parents’ farm, she used this to teach the energetic little ... Productivity501 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2470031 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:00:00 +0100 2470031 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452443&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fis-google-killing-the-medical-riddle%2F Medical students learn not only by textbook and labs, but also by being challenged by medical riddle offered up by their professors and lecturers. Once, medical students would have to “formulate hypotheses, go to the book, research and eliminate possibilities . . . and come to the answer” making the medical riddle a valuable learning tool. But these days, with google, this process is almost defunct. Students can simple keyword the riddle into google search and come up with the answer in a matter of seconds.   Stanford’s Abraham Verghese now adds to a caveat to all his medical riddles - Don’t google it. Here’s his latest… A man walks into a bar, offers to keep his head completely submerged in a bucket of water for twenty minutes and if he doesnt he will buy drinks all around an... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452443 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:28:10 +0100 2452443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2448009&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FTeYqMpHuOQc%2F I like to think Alex is a little more normal — or, like everyone else, manipulative — than might first meet the eye. Most obviously, there are the exchanges that go like this: “Crackers?” “How about pretzels, Alex?” “How about crackers?” or “Alex, we can buy one book today. One book.” “Buy two books?” Image (Paul Klee's "One Who Understands"): Ben Sullivan, Flickr.com That’s just wheeling dealing; that’s just how everyone gets through the world, and it’ll be great to see develop, just like it would be in a “normal” kid, until it inconveniences me. I know he understands stuff, too, but just doesn’t let on he knows. Like it takes dynamite to wake him at 6 a.m. on a schoo... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2448009 Sat, 30 May 2009 20:23:36 +0100 2448009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442885&cid=t_317260_155_f&fid=34629&url=http%3A%2F%2Flabsoftnews.typepad.com%2Flab_soft_news%2F2009%2F05%2Fa-discussion-of-the-private-autopsy.html This article requires additional discussion. Below is an excerpt from it with boldface emphasis mine:If I could have arranged for an independent autopsy by a pathologist outside the hospital where my sister died, I might have done it. But at the time, I had no idea how to go about it and felt too dispirited to try. Recently, I typed “autopsy expert” into a search engine and found Dr. William Manion, a pathologist and lawyer in New Jersey....Some clients hire him because they want to sue doctors, he said in an interview, but others are just looking for peace of mind. Some are upset because they feel doctors didn’t take the time to explain what happened....Similarly, he said that people whose relatives died of undiagnosed, advanced cancer sometimes recalled symptoms from a few months b... Lab Soft News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442885 Wed, 27 May 2009 10:50:45 +0100 2442885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441392&cid=t_317260_93_f&fid=36525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuvamedicine.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F25%2Fmemorial-day-at-the-veterans-hospital%2F Typical Wound Rounds It was one of those typical wound rounds days at our VA Hospital. We made our (the complete vascular surgical team) over to the long-term care wing of the hospital to do our weekly check of patients who didn’t have formal vascular clinic appointments or who were bedridden with chronic wounds. The mid-level practitioners would put names of patients on a list at the nurses station for us to check. The patients who were ambulatory or wheel-chair bound would return to their rooms so that we could check them as we made our way down a T-shaped hallway with two long wings. The entire process generally took from 2-4 hours depending on how many patients to see and how extensive the wounds were and what care was needed. The hallways Most of the rooms down these hallways we... NJBMD's Blog from Student Doctor Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441392 Mon, 25 May 2009 22:37:12 +0100 2441392 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416986&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F19%2Fhotbed-of-apathy%2F *sniff, sniff* “You sound sick,” stated my daughter’s fiancé, M. “I can’t be sick,” I mumbled in protest, and honked into a tissue. “Redunculus; you’re sniffling.” “I can’t be sick; it was Mr W’s day to be sick,” I explained.  “He got first dibs on being out sick today …  If all the classroom staff members who were sick [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416986 Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:22 +0100 2416986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458211&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fnew-interactive-teaching-files-on-radiolopolis-.html And another great educational feature has been implemented on Radiolopolis: Interactive Radiology teaching files.This section implements interactive teaching files from the web-based Radiology tutorial On Call Radiology (www.oncallradiology.com).Radiolopolis citizens are able to scroll through entire image stacks of ER cases as you are used to it at the PACS workstation.Find the pathology yourself and enhance your learning experience byScrolling through the entiRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458211 Mon, 18 May 2009 22:04:27 +0100 2458211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405889&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FRW4mOOFdOXY%2F This is the time of year when the weeks start speeding by. Coming up is our last Saturday of respite for Alex. School trips (St. John the Divine, the Bronx Zoo, IHOP) are coming fast and furious. Ordinarily we get through it and know that in the fall it’ll all start up again. But Alex turns 11 in June, and the NYC Department of Ed. considers him a middle-school student as of September. Where will he go? We have no idea. His school, which goes up to age 21 and has multiple sites throughout Manhattan, has two middle-school programs. We visited one and thought it was OK, but it has no spots available. photo courtesy of Bill Ward's Brickpile (flickr.com) Ned goes to a school that houses five different programs — his elementary school, four small high schools and a special ed. m... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405889 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:15:48 +0100 2405889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2406285&cid=t_317260_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F05%2F12%2Fusing-humor-and-youtube-to-educate-about-plagiarism%2F Plagiarism or misrepresenting someone else’s work as your own is generally not an amusing topic. These three YouTube clips demonstrate how using a bit of humor along with a video recording can produce some amusing results that are also educational. Because of plagiarism issues in the online course, I have had to change the instruction on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity. The first two of these videos will be used in the “Copy and Paste Generation: Promoting Academic Integrity and Preventing Plagiarism” presentation for the Online Teaching Conference at Cabrillo College this June in Aptos. I included the third one because it was so funny. Plagiarism - Don’t Do It The Plagiarism - Don’t Do It video was modeled after identity theft videos. Plagiarism - Identity... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2406285 Tue, 12 May 2009 21:09:31 +0100 2406285 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458217&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fradiology-teacher-now-integrated-into-radiolopolis-.html  Finally!Radiology Teacher has been completely integrated into Radiolopolis!Now, Radiolopolis users are automatically registered for the Radiology Teacher teaching file server and can immediately start creating their own teaching files.  (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458217 Sat, 09 May 2009 22:38:40 +0100 2458217 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2399086&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FtmEsnOmnfg0%2F I picked up some great homework tips after my talk earlier this week at the YAI Conference in New York, (my topic: “Educating the Educators,” or how teachers can work with special-needs parents): - When writing, let the student use bright-colored paper, such as yellow, pink, or orange. It improves concentration. - Also when writing, let the student listen to music they’re well familiar with “and have listened to a thousand times.” In Alex’s case, this would be anything from “Elmo.” Also, it  improves the concentration, apparently, and helps makes writing come more naturally and fluidly. - For math, use props student is familiar with. I’ve tried clothespins and Lego blocks, but one Alabama teacher who sat in on my session said I should ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2399086 Fri, 08 May 2009 17:04:41 +0100 2399086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390202&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FIMOJw8luA8E%2F Alex is entering 6th grade in the fall, and he will go to a new school. It’s been six years since we toured special-needs schools. Back then, as Jill points out, we were looking for a kindergarten, and kindergarten classrooms for the autistic don’t differ much from kindergarten classrooms for the typically developing. So this will be new. First stop was the school of Ron’s, Alex’s old terrific EI special-educator who’s now unit teacher of a special-needs site in a New York City public school. I got to the meeting before Jill this morning; I rounded a corner and there Ron was. “There he is!” Ron said. A friend. He’s greyer (”More dignified,” I told him) but otherwise the same spark and firm handshake. I did know  what to expect s... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390202 Mon, 04 May 2009 21:08:02 +0100 2390202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2367521&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F25%2Fbureaucracy-v-teaching%2F We could do all the things we NEED to do if we weren’t so dang busy doing all the things we “have to” do! (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2367521 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:39:41 +0100 2367521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458225&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2FHandyRad-Patient-Tracker-joined-Radiolopolis-.html We are happy to announce that HandyRad and Radiolopolis just have joined their forces: Radiolopolis members are now able to use HandyRad's features for free and directly from the Radiolopolis website.HandyRad is a web-based patient tracking tool for Radiology education and research. It was presented at the International Congress of Radiology (ICR) in 2008. This week it launched its second version with an integration into Radiolopolis. HandyRad is free to use for all Radiolopolis memberRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458225 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:00:00 +0100 2458225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353717&cid=t_317260_83_f&fid=38212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwozzer.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2F21%2Fportals-of-discovery%2F “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” …James Joyce Orthopaedics residency, for me, was a wonderful experience. The camaraderie between residents and surgical services was wonderful. It almost felt like being in a fraternity. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. We looked out for each other. I always felt I could count on my fellow residents to cover my back. On the same note, we always had attending supervision. Therefore, when things became a little more difficult, there was always someone senior to step in and complete the task. During this time, I never felt sick. I never felt a sense of doom. As an attending, especially in the first couple of years in practice, there are times when you just want someone to take over the case. You may be in a trau... The Beauty of Motion blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353717 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:22:14 +0100 2353717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347784&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fwb3VZJFXVJw%2F The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in a case that will affect how and at what cost English is taught to non-native speakers in U.S. public schools. On one side are Hispanic parents from southern Arizona who sued their school district for failing to properly teach their children English, and on the other are district and state officials who want the courts to butt out and let them teach students in whatever way, and at whatever cost, they choose. I understand what these parents are going through — I grew up in an English-speaking family in the French-speaking province of Quebec — but it really doesn’t matter who “wins” this case: the families will lose either way. Even if the parents “win,” and the Court orders their public school district to spend hundr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347784 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:52:54 +0100 2347784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458227&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2FLatest-User-Cases.html The "home" page of the individual user has been slightly changed and the latest uploaded user cases are displayed on the right side of the page. This helps you to stay uptodate, which cases were recently uploaded. By clicking on the thumbnail, you can see the image in full size and additional information about that case. Also embedded is a link for quick upload of your own cases. Did you know that your Karma increases with each additional case you upload?! (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458227 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:00:00 +0100 2458227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348042&cid=t_317260_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Fme-as-the-pimpee%2F This post is the final part of a 4-part series. The first parts were “pimping in perspective“, “pimping for the pimpee“, and “pimping for the pimper“. Prof Koelmeyer, who I wrote of in great detail in “The Breakfast Club“, was a master of positive pimping. It helped that the pimpee couldn’t get away -  the pimpee [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348042 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:00:26 +0100 2348042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348043&cid=t_317260_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Fpimping-for-the-pimper%2F This post is part 3 of a 4-part series. The first two parts were “pimping in perspective” and “pimping for the pimpee“. In “pimping in perspective“, we learnt that pimping is a bit like the Force, in that it has a dark side. What follows is a discussion of pimping etiquette, so that the pimper can [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348043 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:00:22 +0100 2348043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348045&cid=t_317260_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Fpimping-for-the-pimpee%2F This post is part 2 of a 4-part series. The first part was “Pimping in perspective“. There is little doubt that when pimping goes bad it can be a horrible experience. Malignant pimping can be humiliating for the pimpee, painfully uncomfortable for bystanders, and may even leave the pimper feeling guilty and apologetic if the consequences [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348045 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:39:41 +0100 2348045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348046&cid=t_317260_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Fpimping-in-perspective%2F An excellent post titled “The zen of questioning” recently appeared on the orthopedics blog “Them bones… “. Leaning on the landmark 1989 JAMA paper by Brancati, it provided an erudite discussion of the phenomenon of “pimping” in medical education. Coincidentally, this preempted the timely April 1st 2009 update of “The art of pimping” by Detsky [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348046 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:00:16 +0100 2348046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349378&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FxtduJPNbgXg%2F I’m helping an undergrad prepare a term paper on “family intervention” (does that include Merlot?) and its “positive effects” on autism. The report aims “to inform people about autism and ways family intervention help it.” That help is a sound theory, at least until Alex’s parents start screaming. We intervene with Alex when needed: pick up toys; sit with us through family events and not run off to the TV to blast Elmo; stop at the edge of the curb; please someday eat more real food. This student is questioning a friend with autism, in addition to, among parents, at least Jill and me. Her topics will include the definition, symptoms, history, and prevention of autism (ah, youth — good luck with that last one!), then flow into how famil... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349378 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:37:41 +0100 2349378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348487&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F14%2Fwhere-are-my-offerings%2F I am become divine. When I walk quietly down the hall and come up to one of the students, he often turns around and exclaims, “Oh my god!” (Dark chocolate and garden plants are acceptable.) (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348487 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:13:52 +0100 2348487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458229&cid=t_317260_115_f&fid=38592&url=%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2FHandyRad-Patient-tracker-for-interesting-cases.html We wanted to let you know that we are close to announce the implementation of HandyRad (http://www.handyrad.com/) into Radiolopolis. We are working hard on the integration of this patient tracker for interesting teaching files and practice. More detailed description about this program will follow. We expect to launch it till the end of this week. Please be patient! :-) (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458229 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:00:00 +0100 2458229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349380&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FxVh3a5A_sv0%2F Discussions are half the fun of LinkedIn groups, and when things are slow I like to pose a question. So I posted: “What’s the best and worst thing for educators when it comes to dealing with parents of kids with special needs?” Image: usgarchives.net I got two responses, both insightful. “The Best?” replied one group member, “Concerned parents who are honest with themselves about their child’s needs. They are generally better informed, and maintain a healthy collaboration with educators and related service providers. The Worst: An aggressive, uninformed parent who comes to school once a year to make unreasonable demands for academic results. They rarely even check their child’s bookbag for teacher communication. Parents who work two jobs, gro... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349380 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:06:11 +0100 2349380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2324264&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FoWz1yWkSPxQ%2F I’m not going to say much about Alex’s toilet training because: 1) I wouldn’t want him talking about mine; and 2) Jill handled it. I’ll never be able to thank her enough for causing this bullet of special-needs parenting to miss me. I’ve heard some hard stories about this topic and the autistic, and I’d like to do anything I could to help parents with teaching this sometimes heartbreaking life skill. Image: sxc.hu Aim, however, is another matter. (I’m no marksman, either, but in recent years my aim’s been flawless because I’ve been so tired I take the opportunity to have a seat.) I’ve been coaching Alex on a simple premise: hit the target. “Make it rain, doofus!” my big brother used to say to me (still does, and I&#821... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2324264 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:08:53 +0100 2324264 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306039&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34445&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenshealthnews.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F04%2Fdispatches-from-libraryland%2F Over the past two days, two of my colleagues and I were hosted by the Maryland Association of Health Sciences Librarians (MAHSL) to teach a course for librarians on building knowledge of clinical medical topics. Thanks to our hosts - especially Sally Rutherford and Debbie Thomas - for their hospitality and organizing the course! Just a few notes from our trip: This time, I did not trip over the sidewalks in the Inner Harbor. The course was taught at the University of Maryland’s Health Sciences and Human Services Library, which is really a lovely facility with a truly intimidating staircase. There were 17 people in the room for the class, including we 3 instructors, and 4 of us (23.5%) were Pitt people. There was some discussion that we need Ellen-related buttons prior to MLA, and t... Women's Health News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306039 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:41:25 +0100 2306039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2305966&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2Fveg4vzKF3EI%2F Way behind on sharing this, but better late than never. The Mayo Clinic Libraries’ Liblog has a screencast by Melissa Rethlefsen on PubMed’s new Advanced Search features that you can embed on your own page: In case I have not mentioned it recently: Melissa is awesome. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2305966 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:00:19 +0100 2305966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2307028&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fdumbing-down-twelve-years-of-labour.html No, it is not a joke from a Christmas Cracker. It is a question from an Edexcel GCSE physics paper. There are further examples of this dumbing down in an excellent article from Amused Cynicism. It is particularly depressing that, despite all the dumbing down, the education achievements of are children are still poor.At GCSE 54% still fail to gain 5 A-C grades including both English and MathsChris WoodheadIt is going to get worse for, as Wat Tyler describes this morning, it is proposed to: ...scrap the teaching of history in primary schools in favour of lessons in Twittering. According to the Guardian:"Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum. However, the draft plans will require children to maste... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2307028 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:06:00 +0100 2307028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2304518&cid=t_317260_83_f&fid=38209&url=http%3A%2F%2Forthopodduffy.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-making-of-masters%2F With shows like Grey’s Anatomy glorifying the life of surgical residents, I have a feeling that the number of students who choose to go into the surgical subspecialties will increase. It will probably be like what ER did for emergency medicine and CSI did for criminalists. Not that surgery ever needed to be promoted. It has always been seen as a great specialty but a poor life style. With the 80hr work week restrictions, it has been less intimidating from the life style stand point, and with shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Dr. 90210, it is becoming more high profile. I predict the numbers of applicants will increase. In orthopaedics, we really don’t need an increase in applications. Now, with our TV knowledge of the surgical residency, an intern may expect to first assist o... Orthopod online and blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2304518 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:39:59 +0100 2304518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2296866&cid=t_317260_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FQ2l5QrDjfX4%2F Along with reading goes writing. I started with a hand-over-hand method with Alex months ago, helping him fill lines of wide-ruled paper with words of things he loved: Mommy, Daddy, Ned, Toast (our cat, who he doesn’t love strictly speaking), grandpa, Aunt Julie, Uncle Rob, Elmo. Actually, we usually put “Elmo” first. I held his hand as lightly as possible in mine during these exercises, guiding him only when needed through the letters. I hoped eventually to work my way down to his wrist, then to his elbow, then to let go entirely. The job was filled with unexpected delights: Once when a cold was going around the house, I tried to get him to write “cough.” We got as far as the C and the O when Alex asked, “Cold?” The problem came when I tried to remove my hand. Alex was once... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2296866 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:37:38 +0100 2296866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2284670&cid=t_317260_90_f&fid=34613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.usask.ca%2Fmedical_education%2Farchive%2F2009%2F03%2Fthe_role_of_con.html In the recent article, The role of conversation in health care interventions: enabling sensemaking and learning the authors summary states: The generation of productive conversation should be considered one of the foundations of intervention efforts. We suggest that intervention facilitators consider the following actions as strategies for reducing the barriers that conversation can present and for using conversation to leverage improvement change: evaluate existing conversation and relationship systems, look for and leverage unexpected conversation, create time and space where conversation can unfold, use conversation to help people manage uncertainty, use conversation to help reorganize relationships, and build social interaction competence. Busy clinicians complain that they don't hav... Medical Education Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2284670 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:38:18 +0100 2284670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2243263&cid=t_317260_83_f&fid=38209&url=http%3A%2F%2Forthopodduffy.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F03%2F06%2F113%2F When I was interviewing for fellowship, one of the fellowship chairman said to me, “in conference we have resident speak, and then there is fellow speak.” I was PGY-4 at the time and I really had no idea what he was talking about, but I nodded like I did, of course. It wasn’t until I was a fellow that I understood what he was talking about. It is kind of like learning a new language. As you become more experienced, you don’t need to think as hard to do the translation. This was extremely obvious to me the other week when I was at a shoulder  meeting sponsored by an implant company and there was a 2nd year resident (1st year orthopaedic) who was there brought by one of his reps. I looked at him and thought to myself, “does he have any idea what is being said o... Orthopod online and blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2243263 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:49 +0100 2243263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2241080&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F06%2Fdont-scream%2F It’s only Thursday.  Screaming isn’t allowed until Friday afternoon after all the students have left.  (Please don’t scare the custodians, without whom we would all be in dire straits.) We passed our “Code Red” practice drill with flying colors this week.  A “Code Red” is an “OMG there’s a terrorist” lockdown, the 21st-century version of the [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2241080 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:45:19 +0100 2241080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232639&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F03%2F03%2Fscience-museums-new-history-of-medicine-website%2F Science Museum have just aired their new history of medicine website, Brought to Life. Intended for students and educators, it shows some 2,500 newly-made images of objects from the museum’s history of medicine collection together with historical interpretations, interactives and thematic introductions. The plan is to let it grow to 4000 images over the next year. Hopefully we’ll be back with a review soonish. Have someone else tried it yet?  (thanks to Robert Bud for the tip) (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232639 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:00:35 +0100 2232639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2227464&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fdown-a-hall-noisily%2F It’s amazing just how much hallways comprise the problem-solving part of my day, compared to the actual amount of time I am in them, instead of the classroom. But in our program for secondary students with emotional and behavioral problems, hallways (like lunchrooms or busses) comprise that part of the space-time continuum that is just so [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2227464 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:06:22 +0100 2227464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2216672&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F25%2Fpiques-and-valleys%2F So, I’ve been rather absent from bloggery lately due to spending evenings sorting through vast boxes of paper archives, moving books, applying for jobs to keep a roof over our heads, or attempting to sleep off this virus. I now have removed a cubic meter of paperness from our house, and transferred a few hundred [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2216672 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:35:26 +0100 2216672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2206765&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F23%2Fhistory-of-medicine-on-video-training-session-and-workshop%2F Historians of medicine are grudgingly beginning to acknowledge the changing media habits in the population — that is, why read a book or a journal article when you can see a streaming video on the web instead? To prepare the scholarly community for the new media age, the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is organizing a workshop on ’History of Medicine in Motion’, Tuesday 26 May 2009: The internet is rapidly transforming the boundaries of what is considered serious scholarly material, and allowing for a broader dissemination of findings than has hitherto been possible in history. The increased video saturation among new generation of students has been both a cause for alarm and excitement among academics as they note the decreased attenti... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2206765 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:03:44 +0100 2206765 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2194908&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F18%2Fteaching-at-medical-museion%2F Except for a 2,5 ECTS credit course in medical science and technology studies, we don’t have any obligatory teaching here at Medical Museion. But we attract several medical students who want to use their 5th/6th year elective essay (10 ECTS credits) to go deeper into the history of medicine and medical humanities. Here’s Jesper discussing the history of lobotomy with a medical student under the PH-lamp in the staff lunch room (the best supervision venue in the whole museum): (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2194908 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:00:06 +0100 2194908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2185155&cid=t_317260_82_f&fid=38206&url=http%3A%2F%2Falowe.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F02%2F12%2Fwhered-all-the-fun-go%2F As a practicing physician, I am amazed by how much the practice of medicine has changed. When I was a young academic in the 1990s, it was my privilege to help train a bright, dedicated group of future anesthesiologists. The task was challenging—and fun. Time at work was spent talking about medicine, caring for patients and learning from the latest journal articles. But somewhere along the way—let’s call it 1994, because that’s when it happened—everything began to unravel. That was the year the Medicare “teaching rule” (which deprived academic anesthesiologists of reimbursement they deserved for overseeing residents) took effect and managed care began to storm into the East. In a short amount of time, research funding dried up, the deans of the medical schools began promoting... Anthony Lowe : Anesthesiologist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2185155 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:31:02 +0100 2185155 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2182579&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-use-of-museum-objects-in-teaching%2F We are right now teaching a course in medical science and technology studies here at Medical Museion and we are using medical historical museum objects. It’s the first time we do so, and we’ve talked about that it would be great to expand this — and to learn more about how others have used artefacts in similar teaching situations. The opportunity to learn more came sooner than I thought. Helen Chatterjee and her colleagues at UCL Museums & Collections are organising a day of talks on 2 April to discuss how museum objects can be used to engage students more deeply with their subjects. The aim to promote the use of museum objects as a pedagogy that can be used in a huge range of disciplines and improve the student experience, and will cover: using objects to add... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2182579 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:15:15 +0100 2182579 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2169818&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F09%2Fa-medical-revolution%2F I’ve always been skeptical of claims to revolutions in science and technology. Thomas Kuhn actually made a great disservice to historical awareness among scientists and to science communication with his 1962 bestseller The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Every now and then a new finding is described as a ‘revolution’ in science, technology or medicine — despite the fact that it it almost always more of the same, rather than revolutionary. Therefore I don’t like the title of the two-part video ‘Medical Revolution’ — about personalized medicine — which was awarded with two gold medals at the New York Festivals’ International Film & Video Awards 2008. ‘Medical Revolution — From Molecule to Medicine&#8217... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2169818 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:00:41 +0100 2169818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2153003&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F03%2Fthink-pink%2F I read this story over at Annette’s blog, Fun With Play-Dough, and was flabbergasted. When students at our school get suspended, they’ve usually done something heinous, like get into fist-fights, bring illegal drugs, porn, or some such. Not like 11-year old Natasha Rzanca, who was suspended for – get this – having her hair dyed pink. Her mum [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2153003 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:42:08 +0100 2153003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152917&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F529859271%2F The Skeptic’s Dictionary by Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D. lists many interesting issues and why or why they are not real and/or plausable. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Teaching, VariedFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Research, e-learningThe Skeptic’s Dictionary by Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D. lists many interesting issues and why or why they are not real and/or plausable. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152917 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:00:49 +0100 2152917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2144573&cid=t_317260_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F01%2F29%2Fthe-blurred-distinction-between-research-objects-and-museum-artefacts-in-a-university-collection-context%2F As a university museum, we are constantly thinking about how to use our huge collection of medical artefacts (est. 150.000-200.00 items) for research and teaching purposes. I mean, using artefacts in exhibitions is not that problematic. Find them on the shelves, dust them off, and put them in some kind of orderly display, that’s it. Well, it’s a little more complicated (especially the orderly display part :-), but that’s the essence of it. This is what museums usually do. Using collections for teaching and research purposes doesn’t come easily, however. Most museums don’t have to think about it because they are not involved in much regular teaching, and (sorry to say this) because most museums don’t do much research at all (despite their occasiona... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2144573 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:12:37 +0100 2144573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2132791&cid=t_317260_83_f&fid=38209&url=http%3A%2F%2Forthopodduffy.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F01%2F25%2Fwhat-you-need-to-learn%2F “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ~Albert Einstein Over the past few weeks, I have been looking at a number of different blogs and internet forums. I do this in interest about what people are interested in and to find out what the “word on the street” is. A very common topic I have come across is about residency work hours and how medical training is inefficient. It has even be broken down to the amount of money made per hour if you work a 80 work week. There have been a number lawsuits against academic medical centers, as well as the ACGME and NRMP. People discuss how hard residency is and the meaningless tasks that they are made to do. Although I mostly agree with the sentiments about low pay and meaningless tasks, I ask how would someone... Orthopod online and blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2132791 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:51:22 +0100 2132791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2128529&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2Fgqlp2yED8yg%2F Rachel Walden points (from both Women’s Health News and Our Bodies Our Blog) to a free online workshop titled “Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action” , offered by the US Cochrane Center’s Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE). (Embedded below is a video about CUE. If you are reading this post via a feed reader, you may need to visit the site to view the video.) (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2128529 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:05:06 +0100 2128529 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2121814&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F20%2Fhope-against-fear%2F I rarely get choked up listening to speeches.  I’m just not a terribly sentimental person as far as patriotic stuff goes. Except for this bit from Obama’s inauguration speech today: We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2121814 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:18:51 +0100 2121814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2113335&cid=t_317260_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FWdl-CkZnt5I%2F Posting about the cool stuff Lei Wang does appears to be a habit for me, but as habits go, it sure is worthwhile. Lately, Lei has been posting “Find It Fast!” video tutorials on the blog he writes for the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine. These are great and are available as streaming flash or as an .m4v download (suitably sized for viewing on a portable device!). The most recent ones, The Clinical Question and The Pyramid of Resources aren’t just useful to clinicians- they would make wonderful instructional tools for new medical libraryfolk, too. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2113335 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:01:33 +0100 2113335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2112234&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F17%2Fvacuuming-the-stairs%2F Random thought: It’s easy to give people what they want. It’s much more difficult to give them what they need.        (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2112234 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:22:52 +0100 2112234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2104568&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F15%2F1393-page-74-pound-biology-textbook-140%2F Self-referencing textbook diagram using said heavy tome to weigh down a Southern blot:   PRICELESS!        (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2104568 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:27:19 +0100 2104568 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2100964&cid=t_317260_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D5838 If you are a medical, dental or nursing student, or perhaps a high school student with a keen interest in human biology, do check out the links here: 101 Free, Useful, and Striking Sites to Learn About Human Anatomy from the Malaysian Medical Resources 101 free websites to learn about human anatomy (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources) Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2100964 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2100964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2097951&cid=t_317260_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fboys-think-in-pictures-girls-think-in.html Here's an interesting study looking at the different ways boys and girls process language. At almost every age, girls trump the boys in terms of language performance, but the surprising finding in this study was that strong performances were activated by different brain regions depending on gender. The implications? -boys and girls are wired to learn language differently.Among the strong language performers who were girls, fMRI activations were highest in "conventional" language areas such as the left inferior frontal gyrus or left middle temporal gyrus. Among the strong language performers who were boys, however, the highest brain activation areas were visual association and imagery areas if words were presented visually or sound association (phonology) areas if the words were presented a... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2097951 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:01:00 +0100 2097951 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2116893&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=37784&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpsychblog%2F%7E3%2FG5b_koKDkrw%2Fthe-pressures-of-being-a-role-model-768.html If you’ve ever seen the Channel 4 comedy Teachers then you might understand why the GTCE is considering implimenting a ‘role model’ code.  But is this really needed or necessary?  Yes, role models are influential, especially in the earlier years of childrens’ development, but shouldn’t they be allowed a private life? Teachers are  set to get a ‘role model’ code outlining what behaviour is seen as ‘acceptable’ both in and out of school.  We could face losing our status if we get drunk and into arguments while out socialising, or do not get help for drink or drug problems if a draft GTCE code it approved.  Obviously, as we know from Behaviourist theories like Social Learning Theory (SLT) that children are impressionable and will, if... PsychBLOG.co.uk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2116893 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:05 +0100 2116893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2092556&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F507326231%2F URL: http://psyccareers.apa.org/The American Psychological Association’s career searching website. For: AnyoneTopics: General Psychology, General Science, Teaching, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Advertising, Careers, Databases The American Psychological Association’s career searching website.  This website allows for a person who is interested in the field of psychology to check for employment that involves psychology. Included are ways to write a good CV, ways to dress for the job interview, and future professional development. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2092556 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:22:49 +0100 2092556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074034&cid=t_317260_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F499587735%2F URL: http://www.psychnews.co.uk/News for psychology teachers. For: Students, TeachersTopics: OCR Level-A Psychology, Teaching, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Collaborative News, Commentary and BlogsNews for psychology teachers written by Mark Holah.  Very informative website, including comments from readers, as well as psychology news all over the world (it is a UK site, so expect UK news). (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074034 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:45 +0100 2074034