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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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The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers.

"The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Collection is compiled by the SAEM Simulation Interest Group, working with the SAEM Simulation Task Force. Cases can be posted for sharing and feedback only, or for peer-review and publication. "

Ninety-seven articles were included from 182 full-text articles of the initial 2,001 hits. All studies were of average or good quality and the majority had an observational study design.Ninety-six studies provided insight into the effect of 'the level of experience of residents' on patient outcomes during residency training. Within these studies, the start of the academic year was not without risk (five out of 19 studies), but individual progression of residents (seven studies) as well as progression through residency training (nine out of 10 studies) had a positive effect on patient outcomes.

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"Here, the authors examine the concept of negativity bias in the context of academic medicine, arguing that culture is affected by serially emphasizing the inherent bias to recognize and remember the negative. They explore the potential role of practices rooted in positive psychology as powerful tools to counteract the negativity bias and aid in achieving desired culture change."

"Posterdocuments.com was born out of the need to help people access posters from academic conferences for viewing and printing at their convenience. Search our site by conference name, author name, or area of specialty (e.g. diabetes)."

" The authors of this commentary reflect on a learning-theory-based model for developing master learners presented by Schumacher and colleagues in this issue of Academic Medicine. They suggest that bioscientific and sociocultural theories can enhance different aspects of that model and provide specific examples from neuropsychophysiology,"

Every Woman Every Child" is a global effort bringing together governments, philanthropic institutions and other funders, the United Nations and multilateral organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, the business community, health-care workers and professionals, and academic and research institutions around the world that support the "Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health", which was launched during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit. The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health provides a new opportunity to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world, and in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.

This is the homepage for the Web2Rights project funded by JISC and developed to help academics and students gain abetter understanding of IPR issues and other legal issues in relation to Web 2.0. The site includes use-cases, a blog and discussion forum and links to an ip toolkit and ip diagnostic tool which will take you through a project you are working on help identify any IPR issues which you need to consider.

An interactive Flash animation which gives a helpful overview of intellectual property rights. This was developed as part of the JISC funded Web2Rights project which aims to help academics and student better understand issues surrounding IPR.

Interesting blog post from Cole Camplese of Penn State University which puts forward a model of the personal reflection process which includes the development of personal and academic goals, putting content into a private personal repository and then publishing elements of this into an e-portfolio.

Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities change over time. In this longitudinal investigation, an entire European country's 1997 cohort of medical students was studied throughout their medical school career

"The resources listed in this guide are tailored to medical education research and academic scholarship."

" Residents in difficulty have multiple areas of weakness. The CanMEDS framework is an effective approach to classifying problems and designing remediation plans. Successful completion of residency education after remediation is the most common outcome."

" It was concluded that learning by medical students was improved when they recorded notes in class."

"Social media use in medical education is an emerging field of scholarship that merits further investigation. Educators face challenges in adapting new technologies, but they also have opportunities for innovation."