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Welcome to doc2doc // Connecting doctors worldwide - doc2doc registration is free and connects you to colleagues around the world. * Get answers to your clinical questions from a community you can trust. * Start a discussion about anything from the latest research to careers advice. * Find colleagues you used to work with. * Create your own online meeting place for your friends, colleagues, hospital or society.

Welcome to doc2doc // Connecting doctors worldwide - doc2doc registration is free and connects you to colleagues around the world. * Get answers to your clinical questions from a community you can trust. * Start a discussion about anything from the latest research to careers advice. * Find colleagues you used to work with. * Create your own online meeting place for your friends, colleagues, hospital or society.

We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

"And yet a lot of people don't know how to listen to someone venting. Usually, people take one of two attitudes. Option 1 is to jump in and give advice -- but this is not the same as listening, and the person doing the venting may respond with "Just listen to me! Don't tell me what to do." Option 2 (usually attempted after Option 1) is to swing to the other extreme, and sit there silently. But this doesn't actively help the person doing the venting to drain their negative emotions. Consequently, it is about as rewarding as venting to your dog."

We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

This document has been developed to provide practical methodological advice to reviewers who want to undertake a meta-narrative review (or synthesis - the terms are synonymous).

"The focus of this Toolkit is on creating written material intended for use by people eligible for or enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children's Health Insurance Program -- and by people who serve or assist them, such as family members and friends, outreach workers, agency staff, community organizations, and care providers. While the guidelines and advice we offer are geared to the needs of CMS audiences, most of them reflect general principles for effective communication of information that can be applied to any audience."

Toronto has an anonymous site for texting questions about sexually transmitted diease

Franklin Consulting offers specialist advice and consultancy on the implementation of learning technologies. This site includes links to a number of reports lookign at different aspects of educational technology.

"Patients and clinicians share why it's important to ask questions and offer ways that you can ask questions and get your health care needs met. In these short, compelling videos, patients talk about how simple questions can help you take better care of yourself, feel better, and get the right care at the right time. Doctors and nurses talk about how your questions help them take better care of you and offer advice on how you can be an active member of your health care team and get your most pressing questions answered."

An article about Emotional Intelligence in medicine

A blog post on the use of Twitter in Higher Education

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

List of how twitter could be used by physicians from BMJ careers