Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky
Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky MCQs. You know the ones ... the ones that you have no idea what the correct answer is, or the correct answer surprises you, or they are discussed by other candidates who can't agree...
To see the future of renting, watch the college kids | University Business Magazine Students are cutting out the brokers
To see the future of renting, watch the college kids | University Business Magazine Students are cutting out the brokers by renting direct online. "To rent an apartment on LoftSmart, a website for college students
looking for off-campus housing, users browse listings, take a virtual
tour, and read...
Source: universitybusiness.com
In FutureLearn's MOOCs, Conversation Powers Learning at Massive Scale: Personalized learning has to get social. Students
In FutureLearn's MOOCs, Conversation Powers Learning at Massive Scale: Personalized learning has to get social. Students learn better through conversation. Nice overview of FutureLearn's approach to MOOCs by Professor Mike Sharples highlighting the potential of personalization of learning through conversation....
Source: ieee.org
Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare
Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare foundation trust. She is also a King’s College Older Person Fellow. "There continues to be a growing emphasis on older people and emergency hospital admissions, with Frailty...
Source: wordpress.com
New figures reveal the extent of damaging staff shortages in the NHS - Hospital Dr
New figures reveal the extent of damaging staff shortages in the NHS - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk
Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted
Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted a communications antenna into a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. The country is the first partner of the African VLBI Network (AVN) to complete a full...
Source: physicsworld.com
The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue
The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Trauma, describe a new era in exploration of the biology of injury response and translation of new opportunities into clinical practice. Karim Brohi. Martin Schreiber. PLOS Medicine....
Source: plos.org
Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
"The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade. The revised DLB consensus criteria now distinguish clearly between clinical features...
Source: neurology.org
Hydration Stickers - Improving oral hydration in vulnerable patients Alysha Bhatti. Javier Ash. Shyam Gokani. Suveer Singh.
Hydration Stickers - Improving oral hydration in vulnerable patients Alysha Bhatti. Javier Ash. Shyam Gokani. Suveer Singh. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com
Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave
Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record: Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage,...
Source: plos.org
WHO elects first ever African director-general after tense vote: Former Ethiopian health minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
WHO elects first ever African director-general after tense vote: Former Ethiopian health minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to lead World Health Organisation after a long and fraught campaign
Source: theguardian.com
Scribd says it has over 500,000 subscribers paying $8.99/month for ebooks, audiobooks, and now news: The content subscription
Scribd says it has over 500,000 subscribers paying $8.99/month for ebooks, audiobooks, and now news: The content subscription site is adding content from newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Source: niemanlab.org
How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars – Backchannel: Pay attention: Typography isn’t just catchy visuals. It can also
How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars – Backchannel: Pay attention: Typography isn’t just catchy visuals. It can also be dangerous.
Source: backchannel.com
Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards
Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards of dealing with big partners in an industry clearly is that they use you for their own innovation. Adaptation and personalisation of learning is an emerging theme in education but...
Source: edsurge.com
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading tech gurus feel it won't catch on. There are great difficulties evaluating emerging technology when they are on the "hype curve". The potential of a public record or ledger of...
Source: tbray.org
“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make
“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make money off other people's content, an invitation to fact-check U.K. local news, and BuzzBeed vs. BuzzFeed.
Source: niemanlab.org
Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely.
Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely. Annotation is slowly coming into its own as a technology; I tend to think of it as a way to "re-webify" a web that has increasingly move...
Source: tinyletter.com
Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study:
Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study: Objective To examine the association of long term intake of gluten with the development of incident coronary heart disease.
Design Prospective cohort study.
Setting and participants...
Source: bmj.com
Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward Siddharth Maroo. Dipak Raj. BMJ Quality
Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward Siddharth Maroo. Dipak Raj. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged to record lows.
Source: nasa.gov
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