The Expert Skills Program (ESP) at Texas Tech was implemented in March, 2012, as a free access professional skill development opportunity for all interested students regardless of their institution. The ESP is named to reflect the broad goal of acquiring expert skills in areas ranging from clinical reasoning, patient examination, and communication to the fine motor skills employed in clinical procedures. We have been able to initiate skill development prior to formal clinical training by matching the steps used in clinical skills to the steps involved in higher order thinking skills.
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"Medscape Mobile app is a great tool for clinicians, particularly those who use iPad or KindleFire. The user-friendly interface is a definite improvement over other medical reference apps, and its wealth of offline content is a great addition as well. Plus - it's free!"
"Sharable free cases created by any author from any institution at any time. Simple non-linear navigation while authoring or learning.
Traditional case components such as history (hx), physical examination (pe), etc. are clickable tabs.
Flexible searches are created by authors. More keywords for less advanced learners, fewer keywords for more advanced learners
Learner-built medical record created on the fly. Review is easy.
Immediate feedback is provided by comparing the learner-assigned value with the author's value. Delayed feedback is provided during a final review and the summary. Sortable diagnoses forming a differential are created by the author and learner and compared.
Non-linear navigation includes a "Tx" tab so problems can be treated while other data is gathered."
"The Four Horsemen of the Physician Burnout Apocalypse
Here they are in all their glory … see if they feel familiar to you.
=> Workaholic
=> Superhero
=> Emotion Free
=> Lone Ranger
These four behaviors are actually functional - even essential - when we use them to get through a rough night on call or a particularly onerous clinical rotation. However, they go much deeper than that in most doctors."
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"While its not clear how popular regularly measuring ones heart rate will be in the general population, this certainly will be a tool eagerly taken up by self quantifiers. I am most excited about the utility of this for passive, no touch monitoring in health care settings as the technology advances to not require the camera so perfectly aligned and close to the face."
"Dropbox is a web-based file hosting service that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders across the internet using active file synchronization. Signing up for the basic Dropbox service is free and gives each user 2GB of online storage space."
"We compiled a list of Internet links of 25 English-language, open-access (free) World Wide Web resources of educational cases in the field of infectious diseases."
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Medical education portal. Links to free open access medical education resources, monthly teaching cases, custom medical search. Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences-AIBS educational site., We created for our visitors a custom Google search engine that generates results from professional oriented sites for healthcare providers, leaving outside commercial pages. It is a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects medical knowledge and interests.{kl_php} include("http://www.e-meducation.com/templates/daydream2blue/google.php");{/kl_php}, Orofacial pain and fever, Severe shortness of breath after PTCA, A short description of the procedure is presented for each case along with interesting remarks and teaching points. We present our findings in: Laparascopic surgery, Lesions on blue skin base, Fever in a patient with liver metastasis of bowel carcinoma
MedEd Portal is the AAMC's digital library of peer reviewed e-learning resources. These resources are free to use and made available to teachers under the Creative Commons Licence. To search and download the resources you will need to create an account.