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A medical village expands on the concept of a patient's medical home to include providers outside of the "home" practice (hospitals, specialists, etc.). The medical village will rely on several important concepts, including collaborative and coordinated care and shared responsibility: PCP-to-specialist, specialist-to-PCP and specialist-to-specialist.

Over the past few years, I've radically redesigned my approach to learning. In the past, I memorized information. Now, I need to be a knowledge navigator, not a repository of facts. I've delegated the management of facts to the "Hive Mind" of the internet.

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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.

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Such a device may be available in the near future, and it could turn a cell phone into a mobile medical lab -- and change the way doctors treat patients in rural areas far from hospitals.

Read how this young woman has battled against Crohn's disease.

Hospitals and health systems are utilizing Web 2.0 tools to improve staff communication, recruit for research, facilitate networking and build the hospital's brand. A number of hospitals are reporting that tools like YouTube (for Webcasts) can significantly increase traffic to the hospital's site. Mobile CIOs can stay in touch with IT staffs from the road by sending and receiving Twitter updates. Social media can break down hierarchal boundaries by making C-suite executives more easily accessible to others in the organization. Sites like LinkedIn and Plaxo can be a valuable tool for CIOs looking to fill positions or network with peers.

Web 2.0 use represents a profound departure from previous learning and decision processes which were normally controlled by senior medical staff or medical schools. There is widespread concern with the risk of poor quality information with Web 2.0 use, and the manner in which physicians are using it suggest effective use derives from the mitigating actions by the individual physician. Three alternative policy options are identified to manage this risk and improve efficiency in Web 2.0's use.

CECEM, Cochrane, Conference/Meeting, EHR, Health, intermittent claudication, Physiotherapy, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, study type, Systematic Review

Review of Zotero, Mendeley, CiteULike, Connotea, RefWorks, and EndNoteWeb. Brief hyperlinked mentions of 2collab, Labmeeting, Reference Manager, Citavi, Papers, JabRef, and tools for managing BibTeX files.

Research shows that many doctors rely more on the pharmaceutical industry's own information about a medication than on checking independent sources for evaluations of the drug.

There's currently a healthy debate raging on the MMSA Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME) email server about clinical skills. Granted that the discussion is being held solely by students, it still makes interesting reading (members-only access). The gist of it is whether appropriate training in clinical skills is being afforded to students, how it could improve, and when/where it should be given. I'll quickly run you through the main points of the discussion.

The juice of Acai berry is consumed in many forms like smoothies,mix,soda,ice-cream etc.Regarding the use of various forms of acai as a weight loss supplement i could not find any controlled study.But this much i can say none of the aforementioned claims have been validated by the FDA.