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Day 1405 - #thecrapartist - Colosseum of Rome. One does not simply sketch the Colosseum (or more correctly the Flavian Amphitheatre)

blog post image Day 1405 - #thecrapartist - Colosseum of Rome. One does not simply sketch the Colosseum (or more correctly the Flavian Amphitheatre) as can be seen from this strange perspective in pen. There are far more arches than initially meets the eye, all with different orientation, there layers are large discs...

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

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

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

Robotic Pelvic Assist Device Helps Parkinson’s Patients Improve Their Stability While Walking |: Researchers at Columbia

Robotic Pelvic Assist Device Helps Parkinson’s Patients Improve Their Stability While Walking |: Researchers at Columbia University have developed a system called the Tethered Pelvic Assist Device (TPAD), which can help Parkinson’s patients to improve
Source: medgadget.com

MedEdPublish Article: Using the Smiley Faces task to teach the fundamentals for good clinical trials Helen McAneney. Lisa

MedEdPublish Article: Using the Smiley Faces task to teach the fundamentals for good clinical trials Helen McAneney. Lisa Maguire. Mike Clarke. MedEdPublish.
Source: mededpublish.org

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

Scientists trace 2002 Sars virus to colony of cave-dwelling bats in China

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

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

Bronze Age iron: Meteoritic or not? A chemical strategy. Journal of Archaeological Science.

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

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

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,

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

Pimp My Zimmer project 'reduces falls': Care home residents in Wales have been decorating their Zimmer frames to make them

Pimp My Zimmer project 'reduces falls': Care home residents in Wales have been decorating their Zimmer frames to make them more identifiable.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Innovating Pedagogy 2017 - The Ed Techie "The Open University’s annual Innovating Pedagogy report is out." I enjoy these

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

Meta‐analysis of the procedural risks of carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting over time: Stroke/death rates

Meta‐analysis of the procedural risks of carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting over time: Stroke/death rates within 30 days of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS) in RCTs inform current clinical guidelines. However, the risks may have changed in recent years...
Source: wiley.com

DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in

DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in Go; AlphaZero needed just eight hours.
Source: arstechnica.com

The future is here: Genetically engineered stem cells save a patient: The genetic disease epidermolysis bullosa left a patient

The future is here: Genetically engineered stem cells save a patient: The genetic disease epidermolysis bullosa left a patient without much skin.
Source: arstechnica.com

Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Medicare

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

What to Do When a Patient Has a 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattoo: “We’ve always joked about this, but holy crap, this man

What to Do When a Patient Has a 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattoo: “We’ve always joked about this, but holy crap, this man actually did it.” This is a good account in The Atlantic and highlights the ethical debate about consent. Many doctor and medico-legal comments have been circulating on social media...
Source: theatlantic.com