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"Medscape Mobile app is a great tool for clinicians, particularly those who use iPad or KindleFire. The user-friendly interface is a definite improvement over other medical reference apps, and its wealth of offline content is a great addition as well. Plus - it's free!"

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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.

Access research studies, publications, conference proceedings, reference materials, databases, tools, and other resources of interest to medical researchers, health care providers, patients, consumers, citizens, and policymakers.

"It's that time of year again. The references are in, the applications are complete, interviews have been accepted, flights are booked and medical students across Canada are preparing themselves for the rigamarole known as CaRMS that will determine where they will be living for the next 2-5 years and what kind of medicine they will be practicing for the rest of their lives."

"The editors at iMedicalApps have gone through the free medical apps available for the iPad, and we have chosen 10 free medical apps that healthcare professionals can utilize. These apps range from simple drug reference apps to 3D virtual reality medical apps that make use of the iPads accelerometer. Unlike many other so called "top-10″ lists, this list is not based on the most downloaded apps in the medical section of the App Store."

The "hidden curriculum" refers to medical education as more than simple transmission of knowledge and skills; it is also a socialization process. Wittingly or unwittingly, norms and values transmitted to future physicians often undermine the formal messages of the declared curriculum. The hidden curriculum consists of what is implicitly taught by example day to day, not the explicit teaching of lectures, grand rounds, and seminars. I am increasingly aware of how those of us engaged in family medicine education are blind to it.

With enhanced longevity, many people in late old age find themselves frail and living at home, often alone. Whilst conceptualisations vary, frailty is often used in clinical practice as a directional term, to refer to older people at particular risk of adverse health outcomes and to organise care. Investigation of the experience of being frail is a complementary and necessary addition to international research endeavours clearly to define, predict and measure frailty.

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Description of ICU nursing skills and duties, for nurse reference.

Explanation of emergency room nursing skills and duties, for nurse reference.

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Intrinsic motivation occurs when people engage in an activity without obvious external incentives. Research has found that it is usually associated with high educational achievement and enjoyment by students. Intrinsic academic motivation has been shown to be related to better academic achievement in medical students. Extrinsic motivation refers to the desire to do something because it leads to a particular outcome.

In this article, the authors develop a definition of positive deviance, a foundational construct in positive organizational scholarship. They offer a normative definition of positive deviance: intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways. The authors contrast this normative perspective on deviance with statistical, supraconformity, and reactive perspectives on deviance. They also develop research propositions that differentiate positive deviance from related prosocial types of behaviors, including organizational citizenship, whistle-blowing, corporate social responsibility, and creativity/innovation. Finally, the authors offer some initial ideas on how to operationalize positive deviance.

Review of Zotero, Mendeley, CiteULike, Connotea, RefWorks, and EndNoteWeb. Brief hyperlinked mentions of 2collab, Labmeeting, Reference Manager, Citavi, Papers, JabRef, and tools for managing BibTeX files.

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.