Medical Education

Talk given at the close of the 2008 conference in Prague.

Is anyone going to AMEE this year? I was still there in prague when this presentation was given last year. there is another clip on Youtube that shows the Malaga bit better, but really it is a little bit like an advert for a resort. I wonder what function these video clips have. I would rather know about the way the conference will be structured and new ways they might have of working.

Identity, integration, individualization, excellence.

Listening to this at the moment. Are the slides on slidehare?

I'm sharing the UKCDR project - full disclosure - I am Project Manager of this collaborative project. It aims to make it easier for groups and schools in medical education to have conversations about assessment software requirements with commercial and other developers. Additionally, the project is engaging with commercial developers and trying to win the battle to ensure that best practice pedagogic needs come top in their software development plans.

UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Assessments. Sister project to UMAP. New activity planned for 2009.

The requirements developed from across 8 different institutions in the original 2005-07 project are given here with tick boxes for departments, schools and institutions to select which aspects of item banking and associated functionality they feel are key to their own current or future processes. The tool will then give match information using the results of appraisal of 12 pieces of software, including some well known software companies e.g. Speedwell and QuestionMark, and some lesser known projects and companies such as TOIA and BTL. The original project was based heavily in medical undergraduate assessment. Note, a 2009 project is due to create and release information relevant to a V2 specification. The V2 will be more generic, building on the information brought forward for V1. UKCDR is a sister project to UMAP, a national collaborative project in the UK for core, applied assessment in undergraduate medicine.

hadn't seen this. thanks!

Simulated Gaming for Medical Learning

Through a technology-based initiative meant to double medical student enrollment by 2010, BCNET has played a pivotal role in the development of a unique network that is enabling medical training in remote communities throughout the province

Med ed online resources, fee

Medpedia - a wiki for medicine

Overall, there are two types of medical assistant -- clinical and administrative -- though there are many gray areas where medical assistants perform both tasks to various degrees.

Most registered nurses (RNs) earn between $47,700 and $69,800 annually, with the highest-paid nurses earning a national average of over $83,400. See salaries in different RN industries.

Post about a paper published in Computers and Education 2008 comparing student test results depending on whether they attended a specific classroom lecture or listened to the lecture as a podcast. There is also a link to the article. The results indicate that the students who listened to the podcast and tool notes scored significantly higher than the lecture condition.

These strange-but-true nursing stories were told by nurses and nurse assistants in various places around the Web. Read, shudder, and enjoy!

A powerful examination about how the internet is changing patient expectations.

Nurses perform a variety of functions, based on their individual specialties and their level of expertise.

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most cited paper on education and wikis (over 100 citations) on 27/1/09