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"Recognizing those limitations, the success of the program, and the fundamental role of patient participation in evolving care models, Mayo is rebuilding the software platform so it can be used to create and deliver care plans in multiple types of surgical practices. "

"This comparative analysis reveals that medicine and music make culturally distinct assumptions about teaching and learning. The contrasts between the two cultures illuminate potential vulnerabilities in the medical learning culture, including the risks inherent in its competence-focused approach and the constraints it places on its own teachers. By highlighting these vulnerabilities, we provide a stimulus for reimagining and renewing medicine's educational practices."

"If the recommendations of the eHealth Expert Working Group are accepted, CanMEDS will become one of the first physician competency frameworks to formally include eHealth in postgraduate medical education across the continuum, from residency to professional practice."

"This article is intended to serve as a guide to instructors and educational programs seeking to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative and practical strategies to transform students' learning experience."

"Here are some of the reasons why students should be taking notes for themselves. The practice of note-taking develops several important skills-starting with listening. You can't take notes if you aren't listening. You need to be able to take decent notes because in most professional contexts, indeed in life, you are regularly in situations that require taking in and processing information that you need to remember and later apply. You can't always be asking people to give you a copy of what they just told you."

"Bedside teachers identify potential benefits of bedside rounds, many of which align with national calls to change our approach to medical education. The practice of bedside rounds enables activities essential to high-quality patient care and education."

"For each theory, they suggest practical action steps for the learner, the teacher, and the learning environment in an effort to provide a road map for developing master learners."

The reflective writing of the group collectively demonstrated engagement with themes commensurate with deeper levels of learning: the feelings, assumptions, beliefs and values of clinical practice

An Australian video about some of the issues of bringing a resident into a rural practice

"This comprehensive collaborative learning workshop guide, developed from the ELI 2009 Fall Focus Session, contains a resource list and five workshop modules intended to reduce some of the extensive work involved in assembling the components and curriculum for such a program. Each of the modules contains topical guidelines, content, resources, and best practices, and each can be easily customized to fit the needs of your institution, department, or unit."

19th century black and white drawings "Clipart images of medical terms and tools, including proper bandage application, harmful germs, medicine, and more. Please note that many of these images of medical procedures and practices are out of date and may not be still in use, and are available through our website for their historical content."

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.

"As we develop written materials for the general public, we need to think about vocabulary and sentence structure, organization of ideas, as well as layout and design elements so that we can eliminate as many unnecessary barriers as possible."

"Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors-to a striking extent-still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science."

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.

YouTuve video developed by students at Newcastle School Medical School for the assignment in professional practice. This video touches on alterntaive therapies and also dealing with a patient in need of a blood transfusion who is a Jehova Witness.

HeLMET is a JISC funded project based run by the University of Manchester which is applying Web 2.0 to support on-line consultation and brainstorming in distributed communities of practice.

On this site you will find practical help when trying to meet the requirements of the UK Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004. These regulations implement the EU Clinical Trials Directive in the UK. In light of amendments to these regulations in 2006, we are currently working to update this site. This will be finalised following publication of the specific modality for non-commercial trials.