The state of medical education and practice in the UK. GMC's SoMEP 2017 report raises four concerns. The supply of new doctors into the UK medical workforce has not kept pace with changes in demand Our dependence on non-UK qualified doctors has increased in some specialties The UK is at risk of becoming...
Source: gmc-uk.org
This time it's personal: the memory benefit of hearing oneself: (2017). This time it’s personal: the memory benefit of hearing oneself. Memory. Ahead of Print.
Source: tandfonline.com
Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis: Objective To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost effectiveness of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for patients with atrial fibrillation.
Design...
Source: bmj.com
Computer model for the cardiovascular system: development of an e-learning tool for teaching of medical students: This study combined themes in cardiovascular modelling, clinical cardiology and e-learning to create an on-line environment that would assist undergraduate medical students in understanding...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Algorithm outperforms radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia | Stanford News: In just over a month of development, their algorithm outperformed expert radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.
Source: stanford.edu
Towards a Competence-Based Course Authoring Tool Supporting Learning Management Systems: To establish a more comparable, compatible, and coherent system of higher education in Europe, the so-called Bologna Process (BP) has been adopted. As a measure to improve comparability, the BP requires that every...
Source: online-journals.org
A model for the use of blended learning in large group teaching sessions: Although blended learning has the potential to enhance the student experience, both in terms of engagement and flexibility, it can be difficult to effectively restructure existing courses. To achieve these goals for an introductory...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Could analysing personalised learning be better matched if physicians are first classified into competency groups? Using latent class analysis to identify physician competency reveals four distinct subgroups in this cross-sectional study in China. The survey tool is large at over 100 items long but included...
Source: biomedcentral.com
What do Japanese residents learn from treating dying patients? The implications for training in end-of-life care: How medical residents’ experiences with care for dying patients affect their emotional well-being, their learning outcomes, and the formation of their professional identities is not fully...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Are other specialties becoming de-skilled? Tony James - a geriatrician colleague of mine from my time in Bridgend - puts the question. A generation of Doctors unable to look after their patients?: Dr Anthony James is a Consultant Physician at Princess of Wales Hospital. There have been many changes...
Source: wordpress.com
Denying patients NHS treatment based on lifestyle factors is not conducive to a good doctor-patient relationship. In response to the Hertfordshire Valley CCG’s decision to restrict
access to routine surgery until morbidly obese patients have lost
weight, or smokers have given up, as discussed...
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Using 'cooperative perception' between intelligent vehicles to reduce risks | KurzweilAI This is taking the Internet of Things idea to its automated driving conclusion. If all vehicles on the road have all the facts then they could optimise the routes and risks. We should try hard to democratise this...
Source: kurzweilai.net
Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine. I have been working on this with colleagues at Royal Cornwall Hospital as an educational tool that can run on any mobile device and (when it is wrapped into an Android or iOS...
Source: github.com
A cheap pollution sensor will keep you off the dirtiest roads: This wearable device reveals exposure to the three worst pollutants, linking it with online maps to help you avoid poor air, a bit like a Fitbit for pollution
Source: newscientist.com
From research to practice: results of 7300 mortality retrospective case record reviews in four acute hospitals in the North-East of England. Reviews using clinicians within trusts produce lower estimates of preventable deaths than published results using external clinicians. More research is needed...
Source: bmj.com
Brain surgery revolution: A brain surgeon in the UK has started using 3D printed titanium plates to replace parts of patients' skulls.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation: The Kardia heart monitor from AliveCor did almost 4 times better than doctors providing standard care
Source: ieee.org
What Google doesn’t want you to know: Voice search is taking over display search, while Assistant…: The greatest jump in the history of search is happening under our eyes and Google is keeping pretty quiet about it.
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com
Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance: Use of podcasts has several advantages in medical education. Podcasts can be of different types based on their length: short (1–5 min), moderate (6–15 min) and long (>15 min)...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language used: How do multilingual people solve arithmetical tasks presented to them in different languages? The question will gain in importance in the future, as an increasingly globalized job market and accelerated migration will mean that...
Source: eurekalert.org