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Our goal is to create a comprehensive database of pediatric cases and pediatric questions.

"Pediatrics presents its own set of challenges: memorizing different parameters of normal vital signs, learning how to interact with children and their parents, and studying a fascinating constellation of congenital anomalies and syndromes."

An extensive research project to identify the systematic milestones that move a pediatric trainee towards competence. A Joint Initiative of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Pediatrics

"Approximately one-third of pediatric clerkship directors currently use SNS, with use less likely with increasing age. Fewer have SNS relationships with students than with residents. Perceptions of appropriateness of faculty SNS behaviors and students' postings varied. These perceptions by medical education leaders can stimulate discussion to inform consensus guidelines on professional SNS use."

"The I-PASS Study aims to determine the effectiveness of implementing a "resident handoff bundle" to standardize inpatient transitions in care and decrease medical errors in 10 pediatric institutions."

MedU is the home to CLIPP - Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Program, SIMPLE - Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience, fmCASES - Family Medicine Computer-Assisted Simulations for Educating Students, and WISE-MD - Web Initiative for Surgical Education of Medical Doctors.

While fellows are often believed to be a detracting factor to residency training, we found that pediatric resident attitudes toward the fellows were generally positive. In our experience, in the specialty of neonatology a fellow-led education program can positively contribute to both resident and fellow learning and satisfaction.

"A new type of CBPS, the digital storytelling system, has been developed and evaluated which and appears to be successful in overcoming some of the limitations of earlier CBPS by featuring patient's stories in their own words, by focusing on problems rather than diseases, and by having stories that are quick for students to work through."

"contains over 900 medical conditions to help physicians diagnose, treat, and follow up with patients. 5MCC 2012 also includes 200 pediatric topics, 130 dermatology images, medical news RSS feeds, and Diagnosaurus with 1,000 differential diagnoses."

"The I-PASS protocol provides a framework for the patient handoff process, and stands for: I: Illness severity P: Patient summary A: Action list S: Situation awareness and contingency planning S: Synthesis by receiver"

This week when I lead a faculty development workshop* I'll ask participants to consider their readiness to make use of social media. Are you feeling ready, but you wonder how to take the first (or next) steps? Do you want to find out what all the fuss is about? Are you skeptical about mixing social media with your career as a health care professional, medical educator, trainees, and/or student?

"This is a new interactive tool commissioned by the Department of Health to support health professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child."

"While we discuss each root separately, many, if not all, of them frequently interconnect and intertwine in ways that create devastating cumulative impacts for far too many of our youth. These interconnections must be recognized in long-range comprehensive strategies to address the roots of the serious violence that confronts us as a society."

"The ACGME and LCME mandate that residency programs and medical schools provide core faculty with regular faculty development on teaching. Objective Structured Teaching Exercises (OSTEs) are an innovative tool using standardized learners (SLs) to develop and assess teaching skills."

University of Alberta paediatrics site for medical students

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