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Open-Source Tools for Value Assessment: A Promising Approach: In order to deliver value-based care, health care decision

Open-Source Tools for Value Assessment: A Promising Approach: In order to deliver value-based care, health care decision makers, eg, insurers and health system administrators, need value data at their fingertips—data that are relevant to their own context and reflect their own perspective on what costs...
Source: journalofclinicalpathways.com

Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots

Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant are an increasingly familiar products, simulating human to human interaction with the use of Artificial Intelligence. But these are...
Source: cognii.com

Backward design - a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and

Backward design - a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment.
Source: wikipedia.org

Identifying low test-taking effort during low-stakes tests with the new Test-taking Effort Short Scale (TESS) - development

Identifying low test-taking effort during low-stakes tests with the new Test-taking Effort Short Scale (TESS) - development and psychometrics: "Low-stakes tests are becoming increasingly important in international assessments of educational progress, and the validity of these results is essential especially...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The state of medical education and practice in the UK. GMC's SoMEP 2017 report raises four concerns. The supply of new

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

Content validation of an interprofessional learning video peer assessment tool: Large scale models of interprofessional

Content validation of an interprofessional learning video peer assessment tool: Large scale models of interprofessional learning (IPL) where outcomes are assessed are rare within health professional curricula. To date, there is sparse research describing robust assessment strategies to support such activities....
Source: biomedcentral.com

Computer model for the cardiovascular system: development of an e-learning tool for teaching of medical students: This study

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

A cross-sectional examination of psychological distress, positive mental health and their predictors in medical students

A cross-sectional examination of psychological distress, positive mental health and their predictors in medical students in their clinical clerkships: Medical students can experience the transition from theory to clinical clerkships as stressful. Scientific literature on the mental health of clinical...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The DPCC-MS communication skills competency instrument. A simple 5 item instrument. "Validation of the 5-item doctor-patient

The DPCC-MS communication skills competency instrument. A simple 5 item instrument. "Validation of the 5-item doctor-patient communication competency instrument for medical students (DPCC-MS) using two years of assessment data: Medical students on clinical rotations have to be assessed on several competencies...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Maslach Burnout Inventory - Mind Garden: The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a psychological assessment instrument that

Maslach Burnout Inventory - Mind Garden: The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a psychological assessment instrument that is the leading measure of burnout; Mind Garden, Inc. is the publisher.
Source: mindgarden.com

Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance:

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

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

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress testing was introduced to the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland in 2013. As there has been a focus in published literature on aspects relating to the format or function...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny

Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny that he dismissed research contradicting his claim of excess deaths due to poorer hospital care and staffing at the weekend. He admits he relied on one paper by Professor Nick Freemantle...
Source: theguardian.com

Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training

Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training in Mexico. - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov

College statement on MRCGP assessment. In response to an article in Pulse today on differential attainment in the Clinical

College statement on MRCGP assessment. In response to an article in Pulse today on differential attainment in the Clinical Skills Assessment, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "The purpose of the MRCGP assessment is to ensure GPs meet the highest standards to...
Source: rcgp.org.uk

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

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

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016. The selection of the 10 best stories was, as always, difficult, with more than 200 summaries published in the past year that inform...
Source: jwatch.org

  Royal College of Psychiatrists' response to the Equality Impact Assessment of the imposed Junior Doctors' Contract

  Royal College of Psychiatrists' response to the Equality Impact Assessment of the imposed Junior Doctors' Contract In response to the Equality Impact Assessment of the imposed Junior Doctors' Contract, the Royal College of Psychiatrists makes the following statement: “The Royal College of Psychiatrists...
Source: rcpsych.ac.uk