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Factors Affecting the Development and Sustainability of Communities of Practice Among Primary Care Physicians in Hong Kong.

Factors Affecting the Development and Sustainability of Communities of Practice Among Primary Care Physicians in Hong Kong. "Autonomy of group learning activities, recruiting specialists and allied health professionals, training facilitators, and undertaking discussion in multimedia may achieve...
Source: nih.gov

ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) publishes a Roadmap for a competency-based educational curriculum in epileptology.

ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) publishes a Roadmap for a competency-based educational curriculum in epileptology. "After extensive consultation with its constituency and with educational experts, the ILAE decided to systematically address the educational pathways required for the optimum...
Source: ilae.org

Huge fossil discovery made in China: The fossils found on a river bed in eastern China are estimated to be about 518 million

Huge fossil discovery made in China: The fossils found on a river bed in eastern China are estimated to be about 518 million years old.
Source: bbc.com

Humanitarian health computing using artificial intelligence and social media: A narrative literature review. "The feasibility

Humanitarian health computing using artificial intelligence and social media: A narrative literature review. "The feasibility of using AI to extract valuable information during a humanitarian health crisis is proven in many cases. There is a lack of research on how to integrate the use of AI into...
Source: nih.gov

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although social media data has the potential to supplement data from regulatory agency databases; is able to capture less frequently reported AEs; and can identify AEs earlier than official...
Source: nih.gov

Closing Knowledge Gaps to Optimize Patient Outcomes and Advance Precision Medicine. "Realizing the promise of precision

Closing Knowledge Gaps to Optimize Patient Outcomes and Advance Precision Medicine. "Realizing the promise of precision medicine requires patient engagement at the key decision points throughout the cancer journey. Previous research has shown that patients who make the "right" decisions, such as ...
Source: nih.gov

The challenge of measuring real world community-based interventions. Exposure to a multi-level multi-component childhood

The challenge of measuring real world community-based interventions. Exposure to a multi-level multi-component childhood obesity prevention community-randomized controlled trial: patterns, determinants, and implications. - PubMed - NCB "Treatment effects may be attenuated in community-based trials,...
Source: nih.gov

Rural Life in the past Was a Battle for Survival: People in preindustrial Europe generally lived a miserable, handtomouth

Rural Life in the past Was a Battle for Survival: People in preindustrial Europe generally lived a miserable, handtomouth existence which would be foolish to romanticize.
Source: humanprogress.org

Charcot–Leyden crystals - Wikipedia

Charcot–Leyden crystals - Wikipedia
Source: wikipedia.org

Wales' Brexit vote had deeper roots than many are willing to admit: Martin Johnes, Professor of History at Swansea University

Wales' Brexit vote had deeper roots than many are willing to admit: Martin Johnes, Professor of History at Swansea University The Brexit vote was a profound shock to those who like to believe that Wales has a distinctive and progressive culture. It is little wonder that people looked for someone to...
Source: nation.cymru

Frailty predicts mortality in all emergency surgical admissions regardless of age. An observational study: “Frail patients

Frailty predicts mortality in all emergency surgical admissions regardless of age. An observational study: “Frail patients in any age group are more likely to die than those that are not frail. We aimed to evaluate the impact of frailty on clinical mortality, readmission rate and length of stay for...
Source: oup.com

It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: A new study helps explain the myth.

It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t: A new study helps explain the myth. "Consistent with past research on learning styles, the participants’ preferred learning style (verbal or pictorial) was not related in any way to how well they recalled the pairs...
Source: bps.org.uk

Online learning is supported by factors such as Accessibility, Functionality, Group discussion, Students' communicationality,

Online learning is supported by factors such as Accessibility, Functionality, Group discussion, Students' communicationality, and Technology aptitude. It is negatively influenced by time consumption and distraction. Researchers analysed learners on a large online course using thematic analysis and then...
Source: alt.ac.uk

"All forms of Brexit are bad for health, but some are worse than others. This paper builds on our 2017 analysis using the

"All forms of Brexit are bad for health, but some are worse than others. This paper builds on our 2017 analysis using the WHO health system building blocks framework to assess the likely effects of Brexit on the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. We consider four possible scenarios as follows:...
Source: thelancet.com

People in England will be presumed to consent to organ donation unless they opt out. Max and Keira's organ law set to pass.

People in England will be presumed to consent to organ donation unless they opt out. Max and Keira's organ law set to pass. Moving piece about a donor and a recipient of organ transplantation. The evidence is clear that nudging choices by reframing them as opt out rather than opt in greatly increases...
Source: bbc.com

Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking: In this series on systems thinking, Leyla Acaroglu

Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking: In this series on systems thinking, Leyla Acaroglu shares the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset.
Source: medium.com

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action.

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action. I’ve been reading Everett Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations with a ‘learning lens’ on. I’m fascinated that the adoption of innovations is so analogous to...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Word of the day: Bürolandschaft - Office landscape. What does this mean for the modern ‘internet of things’ workspace?

Word of the day: Bürolandschaft - Office landscape. What does this mean for the modern ‘internet of things’ workspace? Can good design and smart equipment work well together? Good to see that the ‘smart workplace’ is climbing the Gartner Hype Curve.
Source: wikipedia.org

Inspired by @oldaily's #el30 Elearning 3.0 series I have just added a #meded project to the distributed web. It now has

Inspired by @oldaily's #el30 Elearning 3.0 series I have just added a #meded project to the distributed web. It now has a permanent place on the web without even requiring a server. #eldercareApp https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/Qme7F72usRCWJtRzRXBaUeKmeQW2xCChdCHaVXQdTJP2c3/ So what does that all...
Source: ipfs.io

Reforms must prepare the UK countryside for climate change and ensure that our use of land supports reduced emissions -

Reforms must prepare the UK countryside for climate change and ensure that our use of land supports reduced emissions - Committee on Climate Change: The Paris Agreement demands tougher action to remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. We must, at the same time, prepare for the inevitable...
Source: theccc.org.uk