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The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.

"Pediatrics presents its own set of challenges: memorizing different parameters of normal vital signs, learning how to interact with children and their parents, and studying a fascinating constellation of congenital anomalies and syndromes."

"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."

A blog post on the use of Twitter in Higher Education

blog post by Alexis (Lex) Rigby, librarian in Sheffield

This is the home page to the Connectivism and Connective Online course which Stephen Downes ran from September - November 2008. You can sign up for an account which will allow you to look at the course resources and give you access to the discussions etc even thought the course has now ended.

The Institute for Health Improvement site which includes free on-line courses. You just need to sign up for a free account to view these. "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action."

The tool was conceived by a research team from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at UWE Bristol led by principal lecturer Simon Messer, and developed in collaboration with Avon Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Services (ASWCs) who commissioned the project as part of the National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative. The idea is that GPs can access GP Sim from their computer at a time that suits to fine tune their diagnostic skills.

You hate what you do You are a paranoid, risk-averse milquetoast You work 170 hr/week You want to hire someone to do it You don't need patients You don't want anyone knowing what you think

Medi-Vision™ Films publish an ever-growing series of Medical Teaching DVDs, currently with 58 titles.