Doctors training as specialists at all-time low, leaked figures show - Hospital Dr
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Is the p-value pointless? | PLOS Biologue: For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for a statistical practice. The subject of their ire? The (arguably) most common statistical output, the p-value....
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Helge Scherlund's eLearning News: How to teach quantum mechanics to kids
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Donald Clark Plan B: The LMS is dead, long live the LMS! (10 pros & 10 cons)
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Beyond investing: Making global health a reality for all | PLOS Biologue: A grand convergence in global health will require strategic investments in R&D and an aggressive scale-up of health-care delivery systems to ensure health tools reach those who need them most.
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Donald Clark Plan B: 10 powerful results from Adaptive (AI) learning trial at ASU
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Berwick: "You cannot achieve excellence in combat with your future workforce" - Hospital Dr article on comments after the imposition of the junior doctor contract.
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Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy - Now@NEJM: Statins significantly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, are generally safe, and have an acceptable side-effect profile. It is now recognized, however, that in very rare cases, an autoimmune myopathy develops in patients treated with statins;...
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Royal colleges say that 40,000 deaths a year linked to air pollution and costs UK £20bn a year - Hospital Dr
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10 ways MOOCs have forced Universities into a rethink. "MOOCs have made us think. As one of the most fascinating developments in
higher education in my lifetime, they are,in many ways, a pioneer of a
more ‘open’ spirit
in learning. I’d contend that MOOCs, for all their promises and faults,...
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Unified theory of ‘learning’ emerges – and it’s mind blowing. "You’ve
probably never heard of James Mark Baldwin, yet he turned out be one of the greats in learning theory. A 19th century psychologist, he
introduced what is called the ‘Baldwin Effect’ into evolutionary theory."
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Outrage over Government block on publishing guidance on NHS safe staffing levels - Hospital Dr: NICE has published four evidence reviews on NHS safe staffing levels which it had been ordered to suppress by NHS England.
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Chief Executive at the GMC to stand down at the end of the year - Hospital Dr
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The idea that there is a welfare-dependent underclass is wrong: A new book by John Hills explores key issues in the current debate about ‘welfare’ and the welfare state. The debate contrasts a stagnant group of people benefiting from it all with the rest who pa…
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Cross-party NHS commission proposed to review health and care funding in England - Hospital Dr: A cross-party NHS commission to review future funding and structure of health and care services in England, will be proposed in the House of Commons.
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Tier 2 immigration cap preventing NHS from effective overseas recruitment - Hospital Dr
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80,000 additional healthcare staff to be available for employment in the NHS by 2020 says HEE - Hospital Dr
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Diabetes: significant reduction in diabetes-related amputations since the mid-1990s - Hospital Dr
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CQC fee hikes: explanation from the horse's mouth and BMA reaction - Hospital Dr
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EU doctor suspended from practising medicine in the UK for "poor English test" - Hospital Dr
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