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
Is pharma rolling in cash or on the brink of a long-term decline? - Healthcare Economist "Although successful drugs often are expensive, most drugs fail. Thus, while the returns from a blockbuster drug are large, returns from a companies’ entire portfolio may be very modest. Additionally, finding...
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Donald Clark Plan B: A/B testing shows that Pavlovian gamification does not work
Source: blogspot.co.uk
Day 1406 - #thecrapartist - Roman doorway with Madonna and child. Quite happy with the brass colour on the foot of the door - but perhaps not so with the angle. Copying a smaller sketch to the larger 'masterpiece' was really time consuming and forgot to correct the perspective of the step.
Day 1404 - #thecrapartist - pen sketch of the skyline in Rome as seen from the terrace of Hotel Relais Monti, via Urbana, Rome. There were of course 5 windows per floor not 4 and some shutters were open ... but ... such is the power of the artist to simplify (even if partly by accident). The top floor...
Why There Are No Bosses at Valve - that is what you need if you want to have a creative and agile business. Hire the right people and give them 6 months to adjust. An article from 2012 on Valve Software—"the company behind the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal video game series—released its...
Source: bloomberg.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
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
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
An Implementation Guide to Reducing Overtreatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: This article proposes an evidence-based implementation guide to aid clinicians in reducing inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria. Michael Daniel. Sara Keller. Mohammad Mozafarihashjin. Amit Pahwa. Christine Soong....
Source: jamanetwork.com
APOD: 2017 December 10 - In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
Source: nasa.gov
Scientists trace 2002 Sars virus to colony of cave-dwelling bats in China
Source: theguardian.com
2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Paul K. Whelton. Robert M. Carey....
Source: ahajournals.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
Bronze Age iron: Meteoritic or not? A chemical strategy. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Source: sciencedirect.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
NI town 'has UK's fastest runners': Fitness app Strava analysed 24.7m runs and 31m bike rides logged across the UK this year.
Source: bbc.co.uk