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An online publication for daily news, views, blogs and learning relating to medicine. This site combines journalism with medical expertise to cater for the daily information and professional development needs of doctors. The educational content is peer reviewed and authors are required to declare competing interests.

This site at the University of Virginia has links to a number of physical examination videos. These are Quicktime files so you will need the Quuicktime player to run them. These can be used in education under the Creative Commons Licence. University of Virginia have had these resources peer reviewed by MedEd Portal.

The requirements developed from across 8 different institutions in the original 2005-07 project are given here with tick boxes for departments, schools and institutions to select which aspects of item banking and associated functionality they feel are key to their own current or future processes. The tool will then give match information using the results of appraisal of 12 pieces of software, including some well known software companies e.g. Speedwell and QuestionMark, and some lesser known projects and companies such as TOIA and BTL. The original project was based heavily in medical undergraduate assessment. Note, a 2009 project is due to create and release information relevant to a V2 specification. The V2 will be more generic, building on the information brought forward for V1. UKCDR is a sister project to UMAP, a national collaborative project in the UK for core, applied assessment in undergraduate medicine.

Pharmacy technician certification is voluntary in some states, but most require it for employment. Fortunately, if your state requires it, the process of getting it is simple.

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

The Institute for Health Improvement site which includes free on-line courses. You just need to sign up for a free account to view these. "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action."

HEAL is a digital library of peer reviewed digital learning resources that can be downloaded and used/reproduced in local teaching resources. To download content you will need to register for a free account. Collections include anatomical illustrations from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Recommendations issued in current ACC/AHA clinical practice guidelines are largely developed from lower levels of evidence or expert opinion. The proportion of recommendations for which there is no conclusive evidence is also growing. These findings highlight the need to improve the process of writing guidelines and to expand the evidence base from which clinical practice guidelines are derived.

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"Peer observation and professional accountability for giving constructive feedback enhanced awareness of their skills education and training needs. It also opened the dialogue for identifying opportunities for peer assessment and feedback to support work-based education and skills development."

"All of the graduate students in the School of Nursing take some of their Master of Science courses online. A group of six School of Nursing faculty members and a graduate student received funding to determine best practices in online courses. The group developed an evaluation rubric to measure quality in the graduate online curriculum. They then applied the rubric to the core courses which are primarily offered online and are required for all graduate nursing students. The project had a positive impact on faculty by offering a tool useful for online course evaluation and development. Additionally it brought to attention the needs of faculty member development in online education."

"Explore anatomical structures and functions with AclandAnatomy.com. This Video Atlas presents expertly dissected human specimens as three-dimensional objects-just as they appear in the living body. Intelligent search and navigation tools make it easy to find the content you need to teach, learn, or review. Ideal for students and instructors as well as practitioners, Acland's Video Atlas is a virtual anatomy lab at your fingertips. "

"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."

"DoctorDad™ Workshops are great for new and expectant dads as it helps increase fathers' health literacy by providing men with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully care for their young children right from the start.( "

"The purpose of this medical community is to create a possibility, where most of the needs of physicians, residents, medicals students, physician assistants, nurses, technologists and industry can be melted within one central medical network. It is based on a "taking and giving" principle, where you share your knowledge and others do the same."

"Patient communication skills need to be taught as part of residency training. With limited training, case-specific skills (herein, involving patients with cancer) are likely to improve more than general communication skills."

"Taking a comprehensive social history is time-consuming. It's easy to dismiss the task as outside the doctor's purview, especially when there's precious little time to get through a sea of investigations and treatment options. But every patient is a person, and illness occurs in the context of multifaceted lives. We need to listen to our patients with the recognition that the most important information they can give us about their illness often lies in the folds of their social circumstances. And it's our obligation to tailor our prescriptions to an illness in its full context."

"The renewed emphasis on clinical skills in medical education comes at a time when there is also increasing focus on the need to provide better care for populations that experience health disparities.2,3,10 SPs provide a unique opportunity to meet both the general goals of medical education in developing students' clinical skills and goals specific to enhancing and evaluating students' knowledge, attitudes, and skills with regard to patients with disabilities."

Based on these findings, streaming video technology seems to be a viable tool to complement in-class delivery methods, to accommodate the needs of medical students, and to provide options for meeting the challenges of delivering the undergraduate medical curriculum.

While More Americans Need Access to Essential Healthcare, Fewer Primary Care Clinicians Are Available to Treat Them. UVA Professor Says Increased Funding for Title VII Programs May Help Alleviate National Shortage of Primary Care Doctors and Dentists