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"Medical Education is a group for individuals involved in medical education, nursing education and other health professions education. It's a place to share resources, ideas and best practice and get connected with others working in this field. This group is NOT for promoting products or services, the focus is on sharing bookmarks about education, medical education, Web 2.0, resources which would be helpful to students and teachers to support learning and teaching in medicine and the health professions."

"The traditional lecture may have been an efficient format for transferring information 100 years ago, but it's no longer practical in an era of exploding medical knowledge, says Dr. David Snadden, executive associate dean of education for the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "We've actually reached a stage where we can't fit [in] all the curriculum. It's just not possible." "The thing that's becoming really critical for us is helping our students understand how to manage information, access and sift information" as they'll need to do as practising physicians, he adds. Shifting course material onto the Internet offers a solution to both these challenges, Snadden says. In addition to freeing class time for more active learning, the model allows students to control the pace of their learning and "skip the things that don't seem relevant or that they already know."