How novice and expert anaesthetists understand expertise in anaesthesia: a qualitative study: The development of expertise
How novice and expert anaesthetists understand expertise in anaesthesia: a qualitative study: The development of expertise in anaesthesia requires personal contact between a mentor and a learner. Because mentors often are experienced clinicians, they may find it difficult to understand the challenges...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The new cultural norm: reasons why UK foundation doctors are choosing not to go straight into speciality training: The number
The new cultural norm: reasons why UK foundation doctors are choosing not to go straight into speciality training: The number of UK foundation doctors choosing to go straight into speciality training has fallen drastically over the last 10 years: We sought to explore and understand the reasons for...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Will we still need the term "digital transformation"?
3 ways digital businesses can enable the Great Reset: Updating business models for a digital-first world, led by purpose, is now an imperative for almost every company. "In the coming years, it is possible that no one will speak of “digital
transformation” because the term will have become irrelevant:...
Source: weforum.org
'Mum told me to give back to the community': the young Australian creating robots for good: As a 12-year-old in Cairns,
'Mum told me to give back to the community': the young Australian creating robots for good: As a 12-year-old in Cairns, Marita Cheng dreamt of building a robot that would do her chores. Two decades later, the former Young Australian of the Year is turning some of that dream into a reality - but the machines...
Source: theage.com.au
Letter to Cardiff University School of Medicine urging a review of 2020 student admissions
Just sent this to the undergraduate admissions team and the head of school at my old college. "To the admissions team Cardiff University School of Medicine. I write as an ex student of Cardiff School of Medicine having graduated in 1990. If you haven't already could I urge you to review all...
What would a Google AI engineer do with 30 years of their family video?
"30 years of family videos in an AI archive: As an Applied AI Engineer, I got down to business and built an AI-powered searchable archive of my family videos." Welcome to the future of home movies. Calling up memories rather than timestamps.
Source: blog.google
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity is seen in cases of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls: Memory T cells induced by previous pathogens can shape the susceptibility to, and clinical severity of, subsequent infections1. Little is known about the presence of pre-existing memory T cells in humans with...
Source: nature.com
Innovating Pedagogy 2020
Open University publishes a review of learning technologies looking at how pedagogy is changing. This year's report "Innovating Pedagogy 2020" highlights a number of emerging trends in education or learning. The report is well referenced and gives practical advice on how best to apply these innovations....
Source: edtechie.net
Mayfly populations falling fast in North America
"Mayfly populations falling fast in North America: A team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma, Virginia Tech and the University of Notre Dame has found that populations of mayflies in parts of North America have fallen dramatically in recent years. In their paper published in the Proceedings...
Source: phys.org
The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade: "For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how...
Source: hackeducation.com
Moore's outcomes framework and related papers
Outcomes-based planning for CME (Continuing Medical Education) often cites Donald Moore, Professor of Medical Education at Vanderbilt University. In 2009 he published an outcomes framework for CME (1) - which expanded George Miller's 1990 competency pyramid (2) - followed by a more detailed explanation...
Source: agnate.co.uk
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa suggest that the real “paleo diet” included lots of roasted root vegetables that were rich in carbohydrates
Source: newscientist.com
Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon
Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon on New Year's Day.
Source: bbc.com
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down: A new project aims to make LibGen, which hosts 33 terabytes of scientific papers and books, much more stable. "It’s hard to find free and open access to scientific material online. The latest studies and current research...
Source: vice.com
Micro-credientials - the toy model and other perspectives.
25 Years of EdTech: 2019 – Micro-credentials.
"... micro-credentials represent the latest chapter in the attempt to make the shape of higher education more amorphous and flexible. In this, I am in favour of them, because if you want education to be inclusive and diverse then it needs to come in...
Source: edtechie.net
The Collective Journey storytelling model
The Collective Journey is a way of explaining and retelling why something from the complex world has happened. Whilst it is a tool for storytellers to make compelling entertainment it also highlights the weakness of the single perspective in trying to understand the real world. “For centuries, every...
Source: collectivejourney.com
German Digital Healthcare Act promotes digital health.
German Digital Healthcare Act - Frontiers Health: Bundestag adopts law on reimbursement for digital health application in Germany. "health apps, which can help patients to manage a diagnosed medical condition, can from January 2020 onwards be prescribed by their doctors. The costs are borne by the statutory...
Source: frontiers.health
Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced
Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced tremendous success. Based on deep neural networks, NMT models are usually trained end-to-end on very large parallel corpora (input/output text pairs) in an entirely data-driven...
Source: googleblog.com
This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI.
This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI. To know a subject so well that you can reduce it to a Ladybird-style book readable by all is a gift. We could all learn from this level of presentation.
It is available online...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented
Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented by the late great Hans Rosling. The beauty of statistics and how lots of data can reveal insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Source: youtube.com
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