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What do Japanese residents learn from treating dying patients? The implications for training in end-of-life care: How medical

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

What newsroom execs around the world think should be the next big areas of focus for their companies: Worry is universal

What newsroom execs around the world think should be the next big areas of focus for their companies: Worry is universal — but a quarter of publishers surveyed said their revenues are going up, not down.
Source: niemanlab.org

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

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

Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical

Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire: The seven categories of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) represent a framework for planning and assessing medical teaching. Nevertheless, so...
Source: biomedcentral.com

How to Prepare Your Team for the Impact of AI in the Workplace. Pam Viedor briefly outlines some suggestions of how. Consider

How to Prepare Your Team for the Impact of AI in the Workplace. Pam Viedor briefly outlines some suggestions of how. Consider redefining your rolesFocus on employee development as much as AI integrationEncourage collaboration between humans and machines
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to

Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. "Alphabet has quietly become the most influential player in Silicon Valley health tech: Alphabet has more than a dozen teams focused on health across...
Source: cnbc.com

These Smart Glasses Automatically Adjust to Your Eyes: Flexible lenses and piezoelectric pistons in these smart glasses

These Smart Glasses Automatically Adjust to Your Eyes: Flexible lenses and piezoelectric pistons in these smart glasses keep the world in focus
Source: ieee.org

High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface: People with various

High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface: People with various forms paralysis not only have difficulties getting around, but also are less able to use many communication technologies including computers. In particular, strokes, neurological...
Source: elifesciences.org

The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad

The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad economy that is bigger than it should be," Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer says.
Source: recode.net

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories focus on what platforms do. Some highlight the value they provide in terms of ease and convenience in connecting with needed resources. Others focus on the...
Source: typepad.com

Labour has shifted focus away from the NHS crisis. For what? | Owen Jones: The NHS should be the party’s main focus right

Labour has shifted focus away from the NHS crisis. For what? | Owen Jones: The NHS should be the party’s main focus right now. Jeremy Corbyn’s pronouncements about immigration and high pay are just distractions
Source: theguardian.com

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories. As usual, our list focuses on inpatient and intensive care topics that most of us see in our daily practice. We hope that you find this list...
Source: jwatch.org

What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is

What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is no clear vision where to focus funding. The US has a good roadmap and wants to expand the workforce. The US is not going for general intelligence. "On October 12, 2016, President...
Source: digitopoly.org

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting what the future might hold. Good account of the common myths that we hold ... like Gods and - even more widespread - money. Places modern 'humanism' at the centre of his...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor describe the results of this study as “provocative.” I disagree. After admitting their complete failure to find any benefit in the primary outcome being measured, or in any...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

In Celebration of Open Data | PLOS Biologue:   It’s not every day I get to write something that is just fun. In celebration

In Celebration of Open Data | PLOS Biologue:   It’s not every day I get to write something that is just fun. In celebration of OpenCon, and to recognise all of the fantastic articles that we’ve published at PLOS with a focus on Data Sharing across all of the PLOS journals, we’re really excited...
Source: plos.org

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Essential Tremor, Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease, Neuropathic Pain Treatment | INSIGHTEC "Exablate Neuro, is the first

Essential Tremor, Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease, Neuropathic Pain Treatment | INSIGHTEC "Exablate Neuro, is the first focused ultrasound device approved by the FDA to treat patients with essential tremor. Exablate Neuro is a non-invasive, image-guided personalized thalamotomy, treated through...
Source: insightec.com