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Post about a paper published in Computers and Education 2008 comparing student test results depending on whether they attended a specific classroom lecture or listened to the lecture as a podcast. There is also a link to the article. The results indicate that the students who listened to the podcast and tool notes scored significantly higher than the lecture condition.

Details nominees for best medical blogs of 2008. These are over several categories including best clinical sciences blogs, best ethics blogs etc and you can link out to each of the blogs.

Intute is a free online service providing a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research. These resources can't be downloaded and so embedded in local teaching resources but you can link out to these sites from local resources or refer students to these websites.

"The links below will direct you to the full text of papers on important topics in EBCP mainly related to critical appraisal and to the understanding of the importance of the results in clinical studies. The content of the papers is mainly dedicated to learners of EBCP. However, there are online versions, in the appendix, for teachers of EBCP in some of these resources."

"Exploratory behaviors during learning determine what is studied and when, helping to optimize subsequent memory performance. To elucidate the cognitive and neural determinants of exploratory behaviors, we manipulated the control that human subjects had over the position of a moving window through which they studied objects and their locations. Our behavioral, neuropsychological and neuroimaging data indicate that volitional control benefits memory performance and is linked to a brain network that is centered on the hippocampus."

"links to iPad applications that target the various levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy."

news.thinkgene.com genomics, genetics, and bio: share links you would otherwise email for everybody to enjoy

UCL's homepage on certainty based questions - follow the link to the exercise menu which includes a series of question sets relating to medicine.

Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the "Similar images" link under an image to find other images that look like it. Try a search of your own or click on an example below.

A long list with links to mindmapping software

"Banning the handshake from the health care environment may require further study to confirm and better describe the link between handshake-related transmission of pathogens and disease. "

"Income is a significant factor in determining why people are hospitalized in Toronto, where the richest and poorest patients are being admitted for very different reasons, a pioneering new study has found. "

This pattern suggests that students who are tested throughout the semester with high-level questions acquire deep conceptual understanding of the material and better memory for the course information

"In conclusion, this issue of the journal examines the handoff process across multiple domains, learners and contexts and creates a foundation for further inquiry. Future research should focus on determining best practices for handoff education for all learner levels, demonstrating validity of assessment methods, understanding the patient perspective and objectively measuring patient safety outcomes."

"Blended learning enables the use of novel instructional methods and student-centred education. The three cases employ different educational methods, thus illustrating diverse possibilities and a variety of learning activities in blended learning."

Students in the open laptop condition suffered decrements on traditional measures of memory for lecture content.

A great collection of resources designed to help you make the make the most out of online health information.

FYI: Here's the link to the toolbar, if you want to add it to your browser. http://webicina.ourtoolbar.com/

MedEd Portal is the AAMC's digital library of peer reviewed e-learning resources. These resources are free to use and made available to teachers under the Creative Commons Licence. To search and download the resources you will need to create an account.