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"One of the early tasks is to identify the stakeholders of the resulting Strategic Plan; to identify individuals and groups who will be interested in and affected by the plan, to consider their roles and most appropriate ways and times to communicate with these individuals and groups. A preliminary list has been developed on the wiki; however, to effectively identify all stakeholders another important initial task is to clearly define what is meant by Distributed Medical Education. What is the scope of the plan?"

Disapedia was created by Peter O'Connell on May 21st 2007. It was spurred on by the belief that, while there were many fantastic resources on the internet for disabled individuals, many were neglected, outdated and inaccessible. His belief was that a centralized location maintained by a community of disabled individuals would insure that the information on the website always remained up to date and could help ease the lives of other disabled people

" The BEME Collaboration is a group of individuals or institutions who are committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education through: the dissemination of information which allows medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available; the production of appropriate systematic reviews of medical education which reflect the best evidence available and meet the needs of the user; and the creation of a culture of best evidence medical education amongst individual teachers, institutions and national bodies."

Identity, integration, individualization, excellence.

Listening to this at the moment. Are the slides on slidehare?

"Central to an effective response is a code of conduct that establishes unequivocally the expectation that everyone is entitled to be treated with courtesy, honesty, respect, and dignity. The code must be enforced fairly through a clear and explicit process and applied consistently regardless of rank or station.Creating a culture of respect requires action on many fronts: modeling respectful conduct; educating students, physicians, and nonphysicians on appropriate behavior; conducting performance evaluations to identify those in need of help; providing counseling and training when needed; and supporting frontline changes that increase the sense of fairness, transparency, collaboration, and individual responsibility."

Families are an immense resource in the care, treatment and recovery of individuals with co-occurring mental health and addiction problems. However, they often have limited access to the resources, information and help that they need to be supportive to the ones they love. This six-week online course for health care providers explores the needs of families affected by concurrent disorders as well as the strategies that health care providers can use to empower families and ensure that their experiences are more positive. The recommended pre-requisite for this course is the Concurrent Disorders Core Course.

"The information and video below gives valuable insight into what is bullying, harassment and undermining behaviour and how these issues can be constructively dealt with. In itself this educational tool, although helpful, will not make change happen. This material would be best used as part of a wider learning experience where individuals can make sense of the issues and reflect on their own experience, attitude and behaviour."

" The SOC are based on the best available science and expert professional consensus. Because most of the research and experience in this field comes from a North American and Western European perspective, adaptations of the SOC to other parts of the world are necessary. The SOC articulate standards of care while acknowledging the role of making informed choices and the value of harm reduction approaches. In addition, this version of the SOC recognizes that treatment for gender dysphoria i.e., discomfort or distress that is caused by a discrepancy between persons gender identity and that persons sex assigned at birth (and the associated gender role and/or primary and secondary sex characteristics) has become more individualized."

A teacher is a professional not a technician. An understanding of some basic principles about learning can inform the teacher or trainer in their day-to-day practice as a teacher or a trainer. The FAIR principles are: provide feedback to the student, engage the student in active learning, individualize the learning to the personal needs of the student and make the learning relevant.

"In conclusion, a relatively small percentage of students use multimedia (audio and video) that are provided as a duplication of lectures in the basic sciences. The distribution of frequency of access of both video and audio files was consistent across the various courses offered in the first two years of medical school. There were significant correlations in the frequencies with which individual students viewed videos of lectures from course-to-course. Finally, there was a trend for an inverse association between the frequencies with which students viewed lectures and the grades they received in the course. This is an important observation that requires further investigation since it may be indicative of a maladaptive learning strategy for some students. It also does not exclude the possibility that additional computer-aided resources may be detrimental to some students. "

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.

"We found that optimal teamwork was perceived to be dependent on good leadership and availability of experienced staff. The participants described a good leader as one who verbally declares being the leader, communicates clear objectives, and allocates critical tasks, including communication with patients or their family, to suitable individual members"

"CPR game allows an individual to practice a simulated cardiac arrest scenario on an iPhone. The game is won by completing all "critical actions" in a timely manner and avoiding any harmful actions."

new tool focusing on observable beviours to evaluate individual clincial teachers

"Four faculty members describe their collective experiences of being involved in a community of practice (CoP) designed to deconstruct individual teaching experiences through critical reflection and dialogue. "

" We stress the importance of ambient and contextual influences on the quality of individual decision making and the need to address factors known to impair calibration of the decision maker. We also emphasise the importance of introducing these concepts and corollary development of training in critical thinking in the undergraduate level in medical education. "

"Each individual decision to speak up or remain silent, or to promote unprofessional behavior or pursue nobler alternatives, is an important part of shaping the learning environment."

"Individual faculty's teaching performance evaluations are positively affected by better learning climate of residency programs."

"To maximize the educational potential of clinical role modeling, medical schools have to consider strategies both on the individual as well as on the institutional level. Several suggestions are offered on both levels."