The value of tweeting. During presentations, I often ask how many of the audience uses Twitter. When the crowd is medical students, the number of hands in the air rarely exceeds about 5% of the audience. Even in Manchester, where the medical school will in September provide iPads for all clinical students, Twitter usage remains low. At a recent iPad review meeting, @kate_bowman, Fastbleep’s Events Director made an impassioned plea to the other medical students there to join and use Twitter.
The issue cropped up again last week, when I was asked to do some evaluation for the Academy of Medical Sciences (@acmedsci) on how they could best engage early career researchers (from senior PhD students up to early-stage lecturers). One of the problems is a lack of visible leadership on social media: there are few senior doctors and researchers who tweet. Having a trainee surgeon in operations is safe -study. Business Having a trainee surgeon in operations is safe: study Thu, Aug 16 00:09 AM IST (Reuters) - When a surgeon-in-training, or resident, takes part in an operation, the patient's risk of serious complications appears to be no greater than normal, according to a recently published U.S. study.
Looking at data about more than 60,000 surgeries conducted in the United States between 2005 and 2007, researchers whose findings appeared in the Annals of Surgery said that when a resident was involved, just under 6 percent of patients had a major complication such as severe bleeding or a serious infection. The rate was the same for surgeries in which no residents participated. "This shows that resident participation is safe," said Ravi Kiran, the lead researcher on the new study and a colorectal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Residents are medical school graduates receiving training in a specialty. (Reporting from New York by Amy Norton at Reuters Health; editing by Elaine Lies)
Most essential app for Physician Residents is not medical and is free. When my peers at Wake Forest University and other residency programs ask me about the top medical apps to download, I give them my usual list of reference apps such as Medscape and Micromedex. I also mention a certain free cloud storage app as a good way to organize and increase efficiency in learning — essential in Residency training. What I’ve become accustomed to are peers coming back and thanking me for not only the medical apps I recommended, but telling me how the most essential app in their arsenal has become the cloud storage app I recommend. The app in question is Evernote. We’ve written extensively on Evernote before. In the post-PC era, Evernote’s utility has only increased. Evernote is a must have app for Resident Physicians.
One of the hardest things to do as a Resident is to find time to learn amongst all the hours you work. With Evernote, you’re able to maximize your time, which I’ll show with my below workflow. 1) Improving learning: 2) Taking notes: 3) Medical Reference: Professionals promoting professio... [Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011.
Doctor and Patient: The Bullying Culture of Medical School. A Memo to The Families of Medical Students. In the next two weeks, that child whom you have been nurturing for two decades will sign on to a new existence – one of a medical student. Rest assured. Your child is bright; otherwise he or she wouldn’t have reached this point in his or her learning career. But med school is a new and varied experience for every new student. No one knows exactly what to expect. What and whom they’ve relied on before matter little now. They’re nervous, excited ….maybe even a little scared?
Most students, myself included, got through college courses and exams by cramming. For the past couple of weeks, many of us have been consumed by the triumphs of the London Olympics. What can you do? Mom and Dad, the reality is that your child will no longer be able to attend every family function, and yes, he or she may even be short with you on the phone. For parents who have students heading into into the clinical years (three and four) this is even truer. ARJalali : HOT: Survey on Mobile Usage...
ARJalali : HOT: Survey on Social Networks... Tips and techniques for getting published in Med Ed « The ICRE Blog. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine students have invented an app that checks your symptoms. Two fourth-year Johns Hopkins School of Medicine students, Craig Monsen and David Do, have recently created a website that is smartphone compatible and helps determine disease pathology based on symptoms that you input into the system. Called Symcat, (symptoms-based, computer-assisted triage) the app allows the user to enter in various ailments such as a fever, cough, swelling etc. and receive an instant diagnosis. The app is currently available through their website, or can be accessed via an Android beta app.
A version for the iPhone and other Apple products is said to be in the works. “In medical diagnosis, we are often advised, When you hear hoof beats, think horses not zebras,” Monsen says. “But as we worked on this project, we determined that patients, not medical students or doctors, could benefit the most from such an application. Patients sometimes get needlessly concerned about their symptoms, or they don’t consider that [they] could be something more serious. How can medical educators become better leaders? « The ICRE Blog. July 24, 2012 by Royal College ICRE recently connected with Dr. Jonas Nordquist from Stockholm’s Karolinska Instituet around the challenges medical educators face improving their leadership skills. Dr. Nordquist will help lead the ICRE workshop, “Leadership in education”. What are some of the common mistakes and misconceptions medical educators have around developing leadership skills?
There is often a too strong focus on simple solutions and the framing of a problem is often neglected. Recognizing that ICRE is months away, what are some of the themes this session will explore? Implementation of educational change: why it is so difficult to implement. How can a political analysis or cultural analysis improve leadership? You have to understand in what context an educational initiative is embedded; every organization stores histories of super-heroes and scoundrels, victims and previous successes and failures of leaders.
Leading effective teams is a perennial leadership challenge. Social Medicine (Reader) Healthcare Tweet Chats. MD Program. A Medical Resident Brings His Family Medicine Home. One year ago I began my journey from medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine into residency training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Juan Robles, Albert Einstein College of Medicine graduate and Montefiore Medical Center resident Having grown up in the South Bronx, the opportunity to practice family medicine in my hometown was a challenge that I welcomed, though the responsibility to care for the area’s most disadvantaged was a bit overwhelming at first. The experience has been rewarding and humbling. What I’ve learned is that being human and speaking to patients in a way that makes sense to them is often just as important as making the correct diagnosis or coming up with the perfect treatment plan.
But sometimes the exhilaration that I’m on the right track is followed by the realization that I still have a lot to learn. Case in point. The mother is young. I felt competent and even congratulated myself for doing a great job. “The baby is going to be fine.” Hey Doc, do you know how much that test costs? For our health care system to remain sustainable, scarce resources must be managed effectively both at the system level and on the front lines. In health care, decisions by doctors have a major impact on resource management in front-line care. But our health care system does not provide doctors with all of the information they need in order to manage front-line resources effectively. Specifically, our system does not provide doctors with information about the cost of medical care. We believe that providing physicians with accurate information about costs, and particularly the costs of diagnostic tests, is an important piece of the sustainability puzzle.
The first thing to realize is that doctors do not know how much diagnostic tests cost the health care system. Okay, so the research shows that doctors don’t know how much tests cost. Now, maybe you’re thinking this wouldn’t really save the system that much money. Suzanne Turner is a family doctor. #asme2012. The influencers of #asme2012 around peak: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 Top 10 by Mentions Top 10 by Tweets Latest Tweets No activity last 5 days There have been no tweets using the healthcare conference hashtag #asme2012 in the last 5 days. The following analytics and influencers stats are displaying data around the peak date which was 07/18/2012. A R @ Heart Institute | Institut de Cardiologie - uOttawa.
9 essential tips for new medical students. Whether you’re starting medical school or beginning your second year, this post is for you. Will probably work just as well for PAs, NPs and any other health professional student who hasn’t started clinical rotations. Our former babysitter just graduated from medical school and the WhiteCoats are just as proud as her parents are. Then I started thinking, what advice would I give to students starting medical school? Our first day of class, one of the professors got up in front of the class, spent a minute or so giving every student a stare with the “eyeball” for which he was famous, then gave us this brief warning before launching into a discussion about the Krebs Cycle (which has absolutely no practical application to clinical medicine whatsoever). “If you want to graduate from this medical school, there are two rules: Don’t fall behind and don’t fall in love.”
Most of us sat there pondering his statement while comments about fumarate and oxaloacetate went in one ear and out the other. 1. Home :: Aspire - Recognition of Excellence in Education. By Mike Sevilla, MD - Family Medicine Rocks Blog - Physician Social Media Guide. How to Find Legitimate Medical Websites.
Technology and the delivery of the curriculum of the future: Opportunities and challenges, Medical Teacher. Articles Technology and the delivery of the curriculum of the future: Opportunities and challenges 2012, Vol. 34, No. 7 , Pages 534-538 (doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.671560) John Sandars* The University of Leeds, UK JOHN SANDARS, MB ChB (Hons) MD MSc FRCGP MRCP FAcadMed CertEd, is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead for e-learning in the Medical Education Unit in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds.
*Correspondence: John Sandars , Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead for e-learning, Medical Education Unit, Leeds Institute of Medical Education, The University of Leeds, Level 7 Worsley Building, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, 0113 343 4193, 0113 343 4181j.e.sandars@leeds.ac.uk There is increasing availability of a wide range of technology that has the potential to support and enhance the curriculum of the future. Hautement différente : la génération Y, un défi de taille pour l’enseignement médical. Pédagogie Médicale 2012; 13 (1): 9–25 Highly different: Generation Y, a major challenge for medical education Francine Boulé Département de médecine de famille, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé 3001, 12e avenue Nord, Sherbrooke ( Québec), J1H 5N4, Canada Correspondance et offprints : Francine Boulé 305 St-Vallier, Chicoutimi, QC Canada G7G 4W4 Mailto : Francine.boule@usherbrooke.ca Reçu : 6 Juin 2011Révisé : 7 Juillet 2011Accepté : 20 Février 2012 Résumé Introduction : La génération Y représente les jeunes nés entre 1980 et 1992, c’est-à-dire les actuels étudiants et résidents en médecine.
Abstract Introduction: Generation Y is made up of young people born between 1980 and 1992 who are currently medical students and residents. Mots clés : Éducation médicale / génération Y / écarts des générations / relations intergénérationnelles / génération du millénaire / apprenant du millénaire. MMS: Error. Smartphone use during inpatient attending rounds: Prevalence, patterns and potential for distraction - Katz-Sidlow - 2012 - Journal of Hospital Medicine. Suit lets medical students experience symptoms of old age | Society. The Age Man Suit, which has ear-protectors that stifle hearing and a yellow visor that blurs eyesight. It's nothing if not depressing. I drop a coin on the floor and bend down to pick it up.
The bending is laborious and with it comes the risk of toppling over. My head is heavy and moving it causes dizziness. And there's still that coin to pick up – a five-cent piece, which, with my clumsy hands whose fingers are not very flexible and lacking a proper sense of touch – seems to defy my attempts to grab it, five, six times. Those around me joke: "Hurry up, grandma, we haven't got all day. " "Welcome to old age," says Rahel Eckardt, a senior physician at Berlin's Evangelical Geriatrics Centre (EGZB) who has just helped me climb into an industrial-style futuristic boiler suit which should give the wearer the sense of what it's like to be old.
This is exactly what Eckardt wants her students of medicine to experience. Clerkship Travel Program | Eligibility, How to Participate & Expense Forms, FAQs | Government of Ontario. Starting July 1, 2012, medical students in the final two years of their program may receive up to $1,500 (taxes included) in travel and accommodation expense reimbursement for one rotation per academic year in an Academic Health Science Centre in Ontario that is 100 kilometers or further from the clerk’s home medical school. This program applies retroactively to travel and accommodation expenses that were incurred since April 1, 2011.
The goal of the Clerkship Travel Program is to: Improve distribution of physicians across Ontario by allowing exposure to a variety of practice settings; Enhance the mix of specialties by allowing clinical clerks to explore career choices outside of their local area; Continue to promote Ontario as a preferred location for postgraduate education. Resources Forms To complete the following form, open the form and go to File > Save As (or click on the Save (floppy disk) icon on the Reader toolbar at top left) and save a blank copy of the form to your computer. Why Medical Students Should All Have iPads – Part 2. Modified from Hiroyu Oka (Gantz’ Chapter 55: Naked King, 2009) It has been a while since I last posted about “why should all med students have iPads,” it is about time to add some other facts to that.
Now that you have decided to invest in an iPad (or any other kind of tablet for that matter), what can you do with it? For starters, what about having an entire medical library in your pocket? You could pull up the complete Gray’s Anatomy book with the touch of a button, not to mention the many apps available that feature highly detailed 3D human body models.
Imagine yourself doing rounds during your internal medicine rotation and after an interesting case, you can immediately dig deeper on your digital copy of Harrison’s Principles of Medicine and build up on what you’ve just saw, then when it is still fresh in your head, no need to wait until you get home and maybe forget some details. This is a whole new method for learning and I believe that it is enormously better. The reasons our future doctors are choosing medicine have changed. A R @ Université de Montréal. 4 ways social media can improve your medical practice. 2012-06-21 meded chat Transcript.pdf. Mentoring_Strauss_+Academic+Med_1-2009. The Virtual Anatomy Lab: an eDemonstrator pedagogical agent can simulate student-faculty interaction and promote student engagement | Weber | Medical Education Development.
50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know - Table of Contents. Learning styles: where’s the evidence? - Rohrer - 2012 - Medical Education. Top 10 free iPad Medical Apps for healthcare providers. m55xb1EgGi1qz72ywo1_1280. 'Incompetent' junior doctors 'putting patients at risk' Save the Date - AIME Medical Education Day; April 5, 2013.
A R @ Stonebridge Golf Course. MedEd Chat (Twitter) 2012-06-07 meded chat Transcript.pdf. A R @ Vanier Hall | Pavillon Vanier - uOttawa. The JAMA Network WebsiteToday's Content on the Future of Medical PublishingThe JAMA Network Website. Partnership for Clear Health Communication. A R @ Roger Guindon Hall | Pavillon Roger-Guindon - uOttawa. Introducing #medsm, a new unifying hashtag for the intersection of Medicine & Social Media | Gut Check. Physicians Should Be Part Of The Online Healthcare Discussion. 5 healthcare tweet chats you should have on your agenda. 2012-05-31 meded chat Transcript.pdf. Why Some Medical Students Are Learning Their Cadavers’ Names. Shortening medical training by 30%. [JAMA. 2012.
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