Thinking about the workforce of the future? Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor
Thinking about the workforce of the future? Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor in the NHS having burnt-out in his training before becoming a fully qualified Obstetrician. It is important reading for anyone wondering how the world of busy medical staff could...
Source: twitter.com
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
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
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
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
Climate change 'greatest threat', UN told: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest
Climate change 'greatest threat', UN told: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years.
Source: bbc.com
The doctor who chose to stay in the cave: The expert caver gave the OK for the boys to dive their way out and was among
The doctor who chose to stay in the cave: The expert caver gave the OK for the boys to dive their way out and was among the last to leave.
Source: bbc.com
Self-organizing Community Learning Based on P2P Network in a University Computer Foundation Course: In order to solve the
Self-organizing Community Learning Based on P2P Network in a University Computer Foundation Course: In order to solve the problem of lack of targeted guidance for learners in the community learning process, an improved algorithm for constructing com-munities was proposed. The algorithm used P2P architecture....
Source: online-journals.org
Aboriginal eye surgeon Kristopher Rallah-Baker makes history in one of medicine's toughest fields: Dr Rallah-Baker has wanted
Aboriginal eye surgeon Kristopher Rallah-Baker makes history in one of medicine's toughest fields: Dr Rallah-Baker has wanted to be an ophthalmologist since starting medical school and now has his sights set on taking the elegant craft of eye surgery to the Australian outback.
Source: abc.net.au
Marree Man: The enduring mystery of a giant outback figure: Etched into the outback 20 years ago, the vast figure remains
Marree Man: The enduring mystery of a giant outback figure: Etched into the outback 20 years ago, the vast figure remains a subject of fascination.
Source: bbc.com
Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's
Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's software. Aiming your chatbot at published, purposefully language clue-filled test items from the MRCGP exam seems to me to be more about self-publicity than actually funding and...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Day 1428 - #thecrapartist - Villa Inn Messinia, Petalidi, Greece with bather (pro artist). The crap artist is in the Mediterranean
Day 1428 - #thecrapartist - Villa Inn Messinia, Petalidi, Greece with bather (pro artist). The crap artist is in the Mediterranean sampling the burnt umber and sap green tones of the countryside and learning to speak in watercolour.
After years of growth, the use of social media for news is falling across the world
But messaging apps are picking up the slack, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism finds in its 2018 Digital News Report.
Source: niemanlab.org
Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale
Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases have resulted in high levels of morbidity, mortality, and overall economic burden for affected regions. As complex networks become increasingly popular...
Source: phys.org
Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots
Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant are an increasingly familiar products, simulating human to human interaction with the use of Artificial Intelligence. But these are...
Source: cognii.com
Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current
Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current practice of how higher education institutions provide content, its delivery, and how the learner's work is recognised across the dimensions of openness and digitalisation - a...
Source: edtechie.net
On-site pathology testing in remote Australia benefits patients and cuts costs: Remote Australian Indigenous communities
On-site pathology testing in remote Australia benefits patients and cuts costs: Remote Australian Indigenous communities are benefiting from the use of portable, point of care testing devices to quickly diagnosis acutely ill patients. The devices are also helping healthcare staff identify patients who...
Source: eurekalert.org
Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration
Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com
Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that
Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that we so admire also work in alien worlds but, as in Pluto, on substances that would be truly exotic here on earth.
Source: arstechnica.com
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