Could analysing personalised learning be better matched if physicians are first classified into competency groups? Using
Could analysing personalised learning be better matched if physicians are first classified into competency groups? Using latent class analysis to identify physician competency reveals four distinct subgroups in this cross-sectional study in China. The survey tool is large at over 100 items long but included...
Source: biomedcentral.com
How to Clean Text for Machine Learning with Python - Machine Learning Mastery: You cannot go straight from raw text to fitting
How to Clean Text for Machine Learning with Python - Machine Learning Mastery: You cannot go straight from raw text to fitting a machine learning or deep learning model. You must clean your text first, which means splitting it into words and handling punctuation and case. In fact, there is a whole suite...
Source: machinelearningmastery.com
Facebook trial hides alcohol adverts: The social network is testing a tool that will let people hide categories of ads for
Facebook trial hides alcohol adverts: The social network is testing a tool that will let people hide categories of ads for the first time.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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
Prescription drug 'floods' black market: A BBC investigation has seen first-hand of the devastating impact of the prescription
Prescription drug 'floods' black market: A BBC investigation has seen first-hand of the devastating impact of the prescription drug pregabalin which has 'flooded' the black market.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire,
Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Wiltshire.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a
Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a business or organization. Many of the principles are philosophical. Others are more programmatic. All are transformative in nature. The principles (points) were first presented in...
Source: deming.org
'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can
'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
Source: theguardian.com
South Korea mulling world's first robot tax | ZDNet: Controversial idea seems to formally acknowledge a tough future for
South Korea mulling world's first robot tax | ZDNet: Controversial idea seems to formally acknowledge a tough future for workers
Source: zdnet.com
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors: The first thorium research project in 45 years has kicked off
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors: The first thorium research project in 45 years has kicked off in the Netherlands with the goal of making thorium work in a molten salt reactor
Source: newscientist.com
Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students,
Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students, supervisors and new graduates: Little is known about how best to implement portfolio-based learning in medical school. We evaluated the introduction of a formative e-portfolio-based...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly healthy adults aged 18 to 59 years with mild to moderate primary hypertension have a small absolute effect to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity primarily due to reduction...
Source: cochrane.org
Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled
Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled trial. - PubMed - NCBI
"A videogame was developed, combining pictures and short videos, by which students are interactively instructed on acting at the surgical block. Moreover,...
Source: nih.gov
Japanese fungus spreading in UK hospitals - BBC News: More than 200 patients have been infected, but none has died, Public
Japanese fungus spreading in UK hospitals - BBC News: More than 200 patients have been infected, but none has died, Public Health England confirms. "The first UK case emerged in 2013. Since then, infection rates have been going up - although it remains rare. Candida auris is proving hard to stop because...
Source: bbc.co.uk
The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading
The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading the right books? Forming a question group? Signing up to an online question bank? Doing the right job whilst sitting the exam? Joining a Facebook forum? Doing past papers? All of...
Stephen's Web ~ gRSShopper in a Box ~ Stephen Downes "All of this brings us to gRSShopper. This is the tool I've been
Stephen's Web ~ gRSShopper in a Box ~ Stephen Downes "All of this brings us to gRSShopper.
This is the tool I've been working on and with for years now. It - or a
much earlier version of it - is what we used to launch our first MOOCs
in 2008. It is the tool I use to run my website and newsletter....
Source: downes.ca
Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky
Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky MCQs. You know the ones ... the ones that you have no idea what the correct answer is, or the correct answer surprises you, or they are discussed by other candidates who can't agree...
Machines evaluating applicants? 'So what could admissions look like in 20 years? From a school’s perspective, automation
Machines evaluating applicants? 'So what could admissions look like in 20 years? From a school’s perspective, automation will take on a lot of the human-led work, according to Steve Farmer, Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions at the University of North Carolina.' Reports University...
Source: universitybusiness.com
Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all. Analysis of ancient DNA reveals that the Biblical
Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all. Analysis of ancient DNA reveals that the Biblical account isn’t the whole story. "The Canaanites are famous as the bad guys of the Book of Joshua in the Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible. First, God orders the Hebrews to destroy the...
Source: arstechnica.com
Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare
Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare foundation trust. She is also a King’s College Older Person Fellow. "There continues to be a growing emphasis on older people and emergency hospital admissions, with Frailty...
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