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"We're going to change all that! We're making oPortfolio - the open portfolio that medics want. It'll be free for the NHS to use, open-source, fast, modern, feature-rich, portable and interoperable between deaneries."

"COMFORT is an acronym that stands for the basic principles of palliative care communication and comprises seven modules (Communication, Orientation/Opportunity, Mindfulness, Family, Openings, Relating, Team). These communication skills training modules are designed to highlight interprofessional care and communication. Each module of the COMFORT curriculum can stand alone as a teaching activity or can be integrated into a new or existing course. Modules C (narrative clinical communication) and F (family caregivers) provide beginner level instruction, while M (mindfulness), O/O (orientation), and T (team) provide intermediate instruction and O (openings) and R (relating) provide advanced communication skills and are intended for learners who have clinical observation experience."

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"We compiled a list of Internet links of 25 English-language, open-access (free) World Wide Web resources of educational cases in the field of infectious diseases."

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.

primarily resources for learning about infections

Medical education portal. Links to free open access medical education resources, monthly teaching cases, custom medical search. Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences-AIBS educational site., We created for our visitors a custom Google search engine that generates results from professional oriented sites for healthcare providers, leaving outside commercial pages. It is a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects medical knowledge and interests.{kl_php} include("http://www.e-meducation.com/templates/daydream2blue/google.php");{/kl_php}, Orofacial pain and fever, Severe shortness of breath after PTCA, A short description of the procedure is presented for each case along with interesting remarks and teaching points. We present our findings in: Laparascopic surgery, Lesions on blue skin base, Fever in a patient with liver metastasis of bowel carcinoma

open source web conferencing tool

OpenLabyrinth is an open source online activity modelling system that allows users to build interactive 'game-informed' educational activities such as virtual patients, simulations, games, mazes and algorithms. It has been designed to be adaptable and simple to use while retaining a wealth of game-like features.

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.

Professional medical journals that provide full text articles or entirely open access to non-subscribers.

This open source project is a "web-based electronic data capture system for clinical research." The tool lets users manage data, submit new information, extract data, manage accounts and more.

"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."

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"The reported inaccessibility of relevant, trustworthy resources on the Internet and frequent reliance on general search engines and social media among physicians require further attention. Possible solutions may be increased governmental support for the development and popularization of user-tailored medical search tools and open access to high-quality content for physicians. "

"Rather than be deterred, Chi-Ming Chow, MD, FRCPC, a staff cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ont., and an associate professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Medicine, encourages physicians to explore the utility of apps and to focus on the exciting possibilities opened up by their use. "

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

"Interns touched their patients (which could be either a physical exam or just a handshake or a gentle, caring touch) during 65 percent of visits and asked open-ended questions 75 percent of the time. But they introduced themselves only 40 percent of the time, explained their role only 37 percent of the time and sat down during only 9 percent of visits."

collections of open access resources for teaching

open to teaching resources from UK further and higher education institutions