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New knowledge is rapidly altering the basic sciences that are fundamental to the practice of medicine. To address this concern, the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute convened a group of scientists, physicians, and science educators to identify the essential scientific background physicians in the 21st century will need. The resulting report, Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians, lays out a series of scientific competencies that students must master prior to attending medical school and medical students must understand upon completion of their M.D..

During their first two years at Leicester Medical School, undergraduate students observe two patients and submit a 10,000 word dissertation on the medical condition, treatment, and social context of the patient. To support this, in the students' second semester, Information Librarians at the University of Leicester run embedded teaching sessions showing the students how to find information for good medical evidence, using a range of online databases and information resources.

"An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that aims to present and publish research on Medical Education covering medical, dental, nursing and allied healthcare professional education. "

While views of medical students fluctuated more during their schooling, the medical students left with slightly more favorable attitudes toward the underserved than those held by departing pharmacy students.

"Curriculum Reports replace the AAMC's Curriculum Directory and feature: -Graphical interpretations of aggregate and historical curriculum-related data, collected annually by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), -Representation of 100 percent of U.S. medical schools, and -A section on Educational Technology, based on results from the annual Group on Information Resources (GIR) Annual Survey. "

Based on these findings, streaming video technology seems to be a viable tool to complement in-class delivery methods, to accommodate the needs of medical students, and to provide options for meeting the challenges of delivering the undergraduate medical curriculum.

"The results suggest that the goal orientations theory may be a useful theoretical framework for understanding and facilitating learning motivation among medical students. Limitations and suggestions for practice within medical education context are discussed."

"This demonstrates that medical students using mind maps can successfully retrieve information in the short term, and does not put them at a disadvantage compared to SNT students."

use this page to navigate to a number of the resources posted as bookmarks in the diigo medical education research group.

Medpedia is just getting started. It is a long term project and is not yet a comprehensive resource. See what is already available and how you can add to it. Medpedia is applying a new collaborative model to the collection, sharing and advancement of medical knowledge that, over time, will produce the world's most comprehensive resource. Medpedia is just getting started. It is a long term project and is not yet a comprehensive resource. See what is already available and how you can add to it. Medpedia is applying a new collaborative model to the collection, sharing and advancement of medical knowledge that, over time, will produce the world's most comprehensive resource.

"Our empirical studies with five UCI datasets and one real-world medical image classification show that the proposed batch mode active learning algorithm is more effective than the state-of-the-art algorithms for active learning. "

Intrinsic motivation occurs when people engage in an activity without obvious external incentives. Research has found that it is usually associated with high educational achievement and enjoyment by students. Intrinsic academic motivation has been shown to be related to better academic achievement in medical students. Extrinsic motivation refers to the desire to do something because it leads to a particular outcome.

A manual specifically for medical research evaluation. Sponsored by a pharmaceutical company so may have issues.

Medical Text Indexer (MTI)

Clinical Document Collection: A collection of 7673 initial visit notes was obtained from the Columbia University Medical Center Milstein Hospitalist Service. This includes all resident and attending initial visit notes and initial consult notes for inpatient admissions of all types from late 2006 through early 2007. They are not filtered and should therefore be representative of all patients admitted to the Hospitalist Service. All notes from the Service are entered through semi-structured entry templates in a system called eNote11. PMH was entered into a coded field in eNote templates, but as free text within that field. The advantage for this analysis was that these lists were in the doctor's own words without any limits on structure or content imposed by the information system. The notes were stored using the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) XML schema. This allowed for a simple XSL transformation to filter protected health information (PHI) and convert sections of interest to text. A small Java application was written to perform this XSLT on each document and do basic preprocessing to prepare the text for natural language processing analysis. Data Preparation: The corpus was then parsed with the MedLEE natural language processor12 to obtain the semantic structure and UMLS codes of concepts represented in these notes. MedLEE output was generated as XML and a Java postprocessor was used to validate the XML output. Each note section was divided into a text section with numbered phrase tags around identifiable phrases and a structured element containing references describing the tagged phrases. Reference tags were named with the phrase's semantic type. MedLEE assigned a UMLS code to the phrase whenever it could map the clinical information detected to known UMLS concepts. MedLEE results were then merged into one large XML file to facilitate querying across all documents with XQuery.

"The use of videoconferencing for nursing and medical education should be encouraged along with guidelines for the use of videoconferencing. "