France to ban all oil, gas production by 2040: French President Emmanuel Macron said he's "very proud that France has become the first country to ban new oil exploration licenses"
Source: cbsnews.com
Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Is Completely Busted: Facebook serves many useful functions. It helps you set up events, send messages to friends and family, and even organize groups. These are all side benefits, though. The main feature—the real thing Facebook wants to sell you—is the News Feed....
Source: reviewgeek.com
2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve - Web Courseworks: "The annual Hype Curve evaluation each year is to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to...
Source: webcourseworks.com
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
First multimessenger observation of a neutron-star merger is Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year - physicsworld.com: International collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists that ushered in new era of astronomy tops our list of the 10 key breakthroughs in physics this year
Source: physicsworld.com
Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a variety of approaches to develop hybrid Problem based learning (PBL) curricula. However, Team-based learning (TBL), has gained recent popularity in medical education. TBL maintains...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Complexity in the evaluation of medical education - how would you evaluate this one? I am really enjoying putting together the 'current topics and controversies' week at the end of our module on 'evaluation' in the MSc/PgDip Medical Education programme at University of South Wales - though I am now...
Early phase drug trial claims a breakthrough in Huntington disease. IONIS-HTT is an antisense "gene-silencing" compound, injected in to CSF and designed to reduce the production of all forms of the huntingtin (HTT) protein, which in its mutated variant (mHTT) is responsible for Huntington's Disease....
Source: reuters.com
Innovating Pedagogy 2017 - The Ed Techie "The Open University’s annual Innovating Pedagogy report is out." I enjoy these summaries of emerging technologies in education from the Open University. Look out for some of these on a learning programme near you sometime soon. What is really interesting...
Source: edtechie.net
Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries: This cohort study evaluates the differences in quality and costs of care related to locum tenens vs non–locum tenens physicians treating hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries....
Source: jamanetwork.com
Do Good on Autopilot (i.e. without even thinking about it) with These 4 Apps. The apps (mostly plugins to browsers) help with raising money for charitable causes without you having to do anything other than install the app.
Source: thelifeyoucansave.org
After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters: This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. What does this mean for Voyager and what effect will this thrust have on its trajectory? Great that the rockets work - fantastic engineering - and...
Source: arstechnica.com
Blind Obedience and an Unnecessary Workup for Hypoglycemia: A Teachable Moment: This Teachable Moment examines the danger in overvaluing laboratory test results that contradict clinical findings. Elizabeth Y. Wang. Lauren Patrick. Denise M. Connor. JAMA Internal Medicine.
Source: jamanetwork.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.
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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
Flare - an app that connects people and emergency response vehicles in Kenya. "How a speedy emergency services app is saving lives: Not every country has a single number to call in an emergency. One start-up is trying to change that."
Source: bbc.co.uk
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
Linking primary schools and care homes with letter writing pen pals. A great initiative that helps language skills and creative writing for children whilst also enabling otherwise isolated elders share memories and make new friends. I heard this story first on the radio with great examples of the types...
Source: bbc.co.uk
The surfer who has only one leg: Pegleg takes surfing in his stride thanks to a prosthetic limb.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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