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"This exploratory study showed potential opportunities and pitfalls that Twitter could bring to the e-learning community in higher education. "

"Physicians agreed on many essential elements for effective consultations. These results should guide efforts to improve communication in the consultation process and design electronic medical record systems."

"In your hospital, residency program, or medical school have you experienced difficulties dealing with diverse groups and how did you overcome them? How have communication difficulties impacted patient handovers and patient care? "

"We define important elements of an ED consultation with input from emergency and consulting physicians. We propose a model that organizes these elements into a simple framework (PIQUED) that may be valuable for junior learners. "

"A large number of medical residents are unable to correctly interpret crucial statistical concepts that are commonly found in the medical literature. They are also especially prone to the gambler's fallacy bias, which may undermine clinical judgment and medical decision making. Formalized systematic teaching of biostatistics during residency will be required to de-bias residents and ensure that they are proficient in understanding and communicating statistical information."

There is already significant activity in the area of sharing resources in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. This is typically on a sharing amongst limited discipline communities, around a particular area such as assessment and/or on a semi-commercial basis. The OOER project proposes to open up the process to a wider constituency and encourage sharing more openly, as well as reveal existing good practice in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine in UK HE.

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.

Today I learned that ... A medical version of twitter from trip database

New Media Medicine is an online Social Network of over 42,000 doctors, medical students and pre-med students. It's like Facebook for medics!

HeLMET is a JISC funded project based run by the University of Manchester which is applying Web 2.0 to support on-line consultation and brainstorming in distributed communities of practice.

in a primary healthcare communication system

Through a technology-based initiative meant to double medical student enrollment by 2010, BCNET has played a pivotal role in the development of a unique network that is enabling medical training in remote communities throughout the province

Online discussion forum and resources for those involved in teaching clinical skills

an open forum for professionals to communicate, discuss topics and share ideas with each other

"Welcome! This is a place where stories about Canadian family medicine are shared by family physicians, patients, and their communities. These stories deliver powerful messages about the meaning of being a family physician, and about the contributions of family medicine and family physicians to the history of medicine, health care and life in Canada."

Participatory medicine will owe part of its success to the technologies that have the potential to remove treatment, symptom management, administrative, and communications burdens from individuals and clinicians while maintaining the critical interpersonal interactions between them. Out of the steady stream of new devices, programs, gadgets, and applications, which will make a difference in the health and lives of patients? We hope to build the Journal as a resource for critical reviews of technologies that support and facilitate participatory medicine. We realize it will be no small undertaking to put together a process that will allow for the review of a substantial number of technologies over time, reflecting the experience of different types of users.

"# A powerful solution to improve patient safety within your organization. # An evidence-based teamwork system to improve communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. "

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