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What are you all doing with clickers/educational response systems? Are they worth the financial investment? What do you do with the data after you've collected it from students?

The program significantly reduced staff injuries and nearly eliminated lost and restricted staff work days associated with these injuries at Bay Pines. In addition, other Veterans Health Administration sites have also experienced significant reductions in staff injuries since implementing the program.

"Cultural Compentency and Healthcare Adobe PDF Upon completion of this module, you should be able to: Define cultural competency Identify correlates of cultural competency as described in the literature Define stereotyping and bias Discuss the relevance of cultural competency within the healthcare profession Identify specific factors that impact cultural competency within the healthcare profession Explain the dominant belief systems on health, illness and healing among various ethnic groups Define disparities in terms of access to healthcare, economics, and education Explain how disparities affect healthcare outcomes Formulate a plan for addressing cultural competency in clinical practice"

This module on cultural competency is available through the online training for physician assistants at Duke. It is, however, a general module with potentially wide health care worker reach.

"Anki is a spaced repetition system (SRS). It helps you remember things by intelligently scheduling flashcards, so that you can learn a lot of information with the minimum amount of effort." Free, open-source, multi-platform desktop application.

This is a 5-min video clip demonstrating the iPhone-Moodle app. Impressive technology... also watch out for the music! Since the iPhone and the iPad share a similar operating system, this technology might also be useable on iPad. Technology similar to this in combination with the increasing availability of 4th Generation, WiMax, technology takes learning to a new level.

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

"The California Healthcare Foundation has released a new whitepaper, How Smartphones Are Changing Health Care for Consumers and Providers, authored by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. Key findings include: * Two thirds of physicians used a smart phone in 2009 * 6% of physicians were using an electronic medical records system * 42% of Americans use smartphones * Top uses of smartphones for consumers include: medication adherence, home monitoring, fitness apps, managing chronic conditions"

The Academy serves the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge. Every day across America, the Academy and its members create and execute knowledge-driven and policy-related initiatives to drive reform of America's health care system.

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

Examples of case studies with

Insightful look at iPad in for scholars

These are the resources about Clickers from the TLT group, an educational technology non-profit.

An alternative to using clickers for audience/student response

"The Blausen Human Atlas is an ideal interactive resource for professional, patient and consumer education. It contains 150 common medical treatments and conditions and combines 3D animation (approximately one to two minutes in length) with accompanying narration."

This iPhone / iPad app has video and graphic representations of body systems in a slick 3D interface.

LARGE list of collaboration tools - well respected and comprehensive list (as much as an internet list can be)

The courses I found were from the United Kingdom which would help students see a different health care system.

This site was designed with the purpose of making the general public aware of socially relevant diseases and help them judge the potentially dangerous disease at early stages . It is a Medical Diagnosis System in SecondLife.