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Case study on using Patient Opinion in health professions education.

What a great idea!

Today's definition of medical professionalism is evolving - from autonomy to accountability, from expert opinion to evidence-based medicine, and from self-interest to teamwork and shared responsibility. For many, medical professionalism is the "heart and soul of medicine." More than the adherence to a set of medical ethics, it is the daily expression of what originally attracted them to the field of medicine - a desire to help people and to help society as a whole by providing quality health care. But many physicians today experience profound obstacles to fulfilling the ideals of medical professionalism in practice.

The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (JIAMSE) is the redesigned, peer-reviewed publication of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. The purpose of this electronic publication is to present scholarly activities, opinions, and resources in medical science education.

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.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is a unique online service that helps you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in medicine. Its distinguished faculty of over 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate and evaluate the most important and influential articles, presenting a continuously updated, authoritative guide to the medical literature that matters

Одним из направлений использования iPad является медицинское образование. Сначала это был всего лишь инструмент, который студенты приносили с собой по собственной инициативе: но все больше и больше медицинских школ в настоящее время переходят на iPad в качестве основной платформы для предоставления учебных программ. Например, в Йельской школе медицины, осенью прошлого года каждому из своих 520 студентов-медиков предоставлены iPad и внешняя беспроводная клавиатура. Они больше не будут получать печатные материалы курса. iPad станет основным источником медицинского обучения.