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"BrainInfo is designed to help you identify structures in the brain. If you provide the name of a structure, BrainInfo will show it and tell you about it."

"I do not fault people; no one teaches you how to network with others. School does not teach us how to build strategic partnerships or develop interpersonal skills that are helpful with creating a profitable referral network."

"To describe the essential components of the medical model of substance use disorders. To delineate the interviewing skills necessary to screen effectively for substance use and abuse. To understand the high rate of psychiatric and medical co-morbidity and more effectively screen patients for these disorders. To demonstrate skills for evaluating patients' stage of change, readiness to accept the diagnosis, and readiness to undertake behavior change. To clearly and supportively recommend treatment to patients with substance use disorders. To describe the skills required for addiction prevention counseling. To define the skills that help set respectful limits on patient requests for prescription medication. To demonstrate awareness of how physician/clinician attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders impact recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. To demonstrate knowledge of substance use disorder treatment standards and the ability to recommend appropriate referrals."

"When it comes to OSCE exams and presenting cases, practice is essential. In order to develop these vital skills, doctors and students need to gain vital experience. Thankfully, there is now an app to help do this."

"The aim of this iBook is to help students learn and understand the structure and function of the brachial plexus by guiding the reader through four key areas. There is extensive use of interactive content throughout the app in the form of videos, question sessions in addition to the options offered as part of the iBooks app. This includes the ability to highlight passages, make notes or generate study cards based on material within the iBook."

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"Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a capacity building approach that selectively seeks to locate, highlight, and illuminate the life-giving forces within an organization or community. AI seeks out the best of "what is" to help ignite the collective imagination of "what might be"."

"contains over 900 medical conditions to help physicians diagnose, treat, and follow up with patients. 5MCC 2012 also includes 200 pediatric topics, 130 dermatology images, medical news RSS feeds, and Diagnosaurus with 1,000 differential diagnoses."

"ACLS Advisor Includes the New AHA ACLS Guidelines. ACLS Advisor helps you learn basic life support and ACLS. The cardiology decision engine advises the exact action that should be performed. Defibrillator energy dosages and resuscitation drug dosages are given."

"This study's findings indicate that rural physicians are routinely confronted with professional boundary issues in everyday situations, and these circumstances do not always reflect those of their urban colleagues. Given the increase in longitudinal immersion clinical clerkship programs to nurture student interest in future rural practice, acknowledgment and acceptance of the nuances of dual relationships and boundary setting in different clinical learning contexts are vital to help students identify their personal needs for privacy and be better prepared to negotiate the realities of rural practice. These findings may inform future medical education initiatives on professional boundary setting as an aspect of professionalism."

"We launched this project because we believe a set of guidelines is very much needed either for medical professionals and patients, and pharma about using social media properly and legally. This open access guide created collaboratively by the most important online voices of pharma and web 2.0 was meant to help facilitate this process."

"The duty of the teacher in this model is not to judge and rate but, rather, to read and tell what is seen. Our teachers, having been trained in the acts of close reading, are equipped not with rating rubrics but, rather, with a reading guide that prompts the reader to attend to several narrative features of a text. The reader/coach can thereby first see and then show the writer what is contained in the written text, at least from that reader's vantage point, helping along the process not only of the writing but also of the reflection the writing birthed. Multiple readers swell and complicate the lessons learned. As a dividend, we have observed, the group of readers/writers form strong, trusting, collaborative teams. And so our training for reflection also fulfills other difficult missions of medical education in teamwork, peer learning, trust, and care."

"It's not just patients who can learn from tools that help them make evidence-based decisions. Assessing patients' understanding of the information provided and the reasons for their health care choices has been an educational experience for Dale Collins Vidal, MD, director of the Center for Informed Choice at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire."

FRom Tim Senior: a blog I started years ago to help GP teachers use formative assessment tools compiled on http://www.wentwest.com/treat/  I produced this when I worked for WentWest, an Australian GP registrar training organisation (like a UK VTS). The websites are still up and I think the tools are still useful. Many of you from the UK will recognise some of them, but the guides on how to use them are all my own work.

"Conclusion: A few areas of debriefing practice where obvious gaps that deserve study were identified, such as comparing debriefing techniques, comparing trained versus untrained debriefers, and comparing the effect of different debriefing venues and times. A model for publication of research data was developed and presented which should help researchers clarify methodology in future work."

"This article applies a descriptive, patient care model of the hateful patient to residency education. It is our belief that having a descriptive model for hateful residents, including the unpleasant emotional reactions evoked by such learners, will help educators better manage their own negative feelings about these residents and implement effective early intervention strategies."

" In this AMEE guide we describe historical, discourse and text analysis approaches that can help researchers and educators question the inevitability of things that are currently seen as 'natural'. Why is such questioning important? By articulating our assumptions and interrogating the 'naturalness' of the status quo, one can then begin to ask why things are the way they are."

"his resource is designed to help develop residents and fellows as teachers of medical students. The content addresses an aspect of teaching that many housestaff find challenging - that of providing effective formative feedback to medical students on clinical rotations."

"Teaching clinical reasoning is important and feasible. Teachers who explicitly teach problem solving and decision making may help learners to improve their diagnostic accuracy and treatment choices."