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Maurice Joyce

AMA Wire - AMA grant to fund virtual patient cases for medical student training - 1 views

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    Part of the American Medical Associations' attempt to increase engagement in medical education.
Ryan Brown

Stanford develops new tool for teaching doctors to treat sepsis - 0 views

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    This article describes how Stanford University Medical Center is using a web-based medical game called "Septris" to train its physicians on sepsis.
Maurice Joyce

How Middle School Failures Lead to Medical School Success - 0 views

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    Husband (Infectious Disease doctor) and Wife (Middle school teacher) find a common thread in teaching through Dweck!
Maurice Joyce

Leveraging Technology for Medical Education - 1 views

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    Interesting podcast about the increasing use of technology in medical education and how this can be used to improve patient care.
Maurice Joyce

MIT students create new medical devices - MIT News Office - 0 views

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    Great demonstration of engaging graduate/undergraduates in course materials at MIT
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Why One Hospital is Insisting That Staff Play Games at Work | Caspian Learning : Multi-... - 0 views

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    Caspian Learning built an immersive 3D serious game for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity in the UK to increase operator engagement in training to use medical hoists.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Putting self-efficacy theory into serious games | Pamela M. Kato, EdM, PhD - 2 views

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    Here is more on self-efficacy theory, particularly how it was applied in the author's game "Air Medic Sky 1."
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    Nice post, Stepahnie. I have already borrowed a couple of ideas from this for my project, such as some training modules within the game to provide mastery experiences.
Parisa Rouhani

Phones, paper 'chips' may fight disease - CNN.com - 0 views

  • George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.
  • Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.
  • hey test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading
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  • solutions to complicated problems often are found in simple, low-cost technologies.
  • he paper may mold in humid, hot climates. And it's still important for people to get access to doctors so they know what to do about their diagnoses,
Uly Lalunio

Doctors diagnose the iPad's usefulness: vital signs looking good | Technology | Los Ang... - 1 views

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    Another iPad application potential - digital medical records.
Jerusha Saldaña Yanez

Think Like a Doctor (The Contest) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    ny times' column contest asks readers play the role of a doctor and provide correct diagnosis for a medical case
Stephanie Fitzgerald

What All Teachers Should Learn from Jazz-band Teachers | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    This article suggests lessons that other teachers can learn from jazz teachers in motivating students and talks about the social, constructivist, and personal aspects of jazz that make it a passion for students who may otherwise be uninterested in school. "Students need to be doing something every day to demonstrate their learning."
Leslie Lieman

Denver Planned Parenthood affiliate offers sex-ed texting - 0 views

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    Although the goals are different from the Oneville research, folks may be interested in Planned Parenthood's recent demonstration of one of the most successful uses of texting (providing age-appropriate, medically accurate answers to questions). [http://www.plannedparenthoodchat.org/]
Parisa Rouhani

Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

  • While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.
  • tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.
  • Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,
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  • That stat is backed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which found that the main source of prescription drugs among non-medical users — a whopping 56 percent — was free drugs from friends and family.
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