Medical Education

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Colonoscopy video

A long list with links to mindmapping software

Patient centered

"Welcome! This is a place where stories about Canadian family medicine are shared by family physicians, patients, and their communities. These stories deliver powerful messages about the meaning of being a family physician, and about the contributions of family medicine and family physicians to the history of medicine, health care and life in Canada."

List of articles

"This is an information resource designed to help patients understand the nature of a medical condition and the surgical procedure most commonly used to treat it." I think it could also be used with premed and 1st year students.

University of Alberta paediatrics site for medical students

London Deanery online modules on clinical teaching

An iPhone app

Nephrology on demand - Brody School of Medicine site with lecture resources, articles for medical students, physicians, patients etc.

An assessment tool for inquiry based learning

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The UTube channel for the British Medical Journal

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Medical students at Penn State make films of their patients to gain more understanding of what it's like to live with serious illness.

"Diagnosis-Independent Alzheimer Disease Biomarker Signature in Cognitively Normal Elderly People"

I heard Trojanowski (the senior author) talk about this last month at the annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. It's a very interesting topic with a lot of social ramifications. The statement in the absrract that among people with mild cognitive impairment, the biomarker profile had a 100% sensitivity for development of AD needs to be carefully considered. First, the metric that is of greater interest is the positive predictive value. Second, it is known that some patients who have the classic AD findings at autopsy did not have mental impairment in life. We know this from the Nun study.

A first person reflection on a past error