literature :: www.forensicmed.co.uk Pathology forms the basis of the language of medicine. Learning medical terminology can be frustrating, but need not be impossible! Many resources exist to help you learn how to speak 'medicalese', including the following ... US Army basic medical terminology course booklet Paediatric forensic pathology: limits and controversies (Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine 2007) - pages vi-xiv (glossary) Inquiry into pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario ('Goudge Inquiry') Volume 2 (2008) - pages xix-xxix (glossary) Online medical terminology course at Des Moines University medical terminology online resources collection medical eponyms database (also available as an app) medical terminology tutorial (from the US National Library of Medicine) online medical dictionary at Medline Plus (from the US National Library of Medicine) There are also many books on the market to help learn medical terminology...
RT @trished: "I need permission to give a drug to half my patients, but not to give it to them all", but MRHA is making that easier http ... Rosalind L Smyth, Brough professor of paediatric medicine Author Affiliations r.l.smyth@liv.ac.uk The research community needs to support a new initiative to reduce the regulatory burden Over the past three to five years, there has been a barrage of criticism and dissent about the complex and bureaucratic systems that govern clinical research in the United Kingdom. One such initiative is the implementation, since April 2011, by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of a risk adapted approach to the regulation of clinical trials of investigational medicinal products.3 This approach defines three types of trial according to the risks associated with the product—none (A), some (B), and markedly higher (C) than for standard medical care.
UW Histology homepage Histology Website Resources Virtual Histology Loyola Univ Medical School Univ. of Florida Histology Tutorial Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Histology The University of Western Australia Blue Histology Georgetown Univ School of Medicine Histology University of Texas Medical Branch Microanatomy Web Atlas RT @mellojonny: @RoyLilley @clarercgp What is the role of a GP today? My thoughts from the frontline Brief notes before the Battle of Ideas 2011 debate, Radical surgery for the NHS: what is a GP’s role today? The answer depends on who is defining the role. The answer (as always) should not come from GPs, (or those pesky meddlers the Kings Fund, or the Dept of Health) but patients. And not the pushy, entitled, ‘fix my sore throat before I interview Sir David’ journalists, that cannot understand why GPs don’t keep the same opening hours as Tescos (do they think Tescos could afford 24hour opening if it took 10 years of training to operate a checkout?) Nor the people who run think-tanks who write long papers about what they would want from a GP if they were a patient, only they’re not actually chronically sick or worried half to death that they might be; these are healthy people, not patients. Studies have shown that at the start of medical school, GPs are in fact normal people, capable of blending in at any social occasion. The commonest question my patients ask me is, “Will you be my doctor?”
a free, comprehensive source of notes for OSCE examinations at UK medical schools RT @ruskin147: BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number? possibly the cleverest thing the BBC websit ... Sources: All population data are based on estimates by the UN Population Division and all calculations provided by the UN Population Fund. The remaining data are from other sections of the UN, the Global Footprint Network and the International Telecommunications Union. Want to find out more? Visit the UN Population Fund's detailed population calculator, 7 billion and me. Notes on the data: Only birth dates after 1910 can be accommodated and only countries with populations of more than 100,000 people are included. Three country groupings - developed, developing and least developed - featured in the conclusions are those referenced by the UN for assessing the Millennium Development Goals. Read the answers to frequently asked questions here.
OSCE Skills, clinical examination resources for medical students Pharma & Fun, Not Oxymoronic? Here Comes Gamification! Speaking of Boehringer Ingelheim's (BI's) long-awaited -- but not yet available -- Facebook game, Syrum, John Pugh, head of BI online communications, said it's about "pharma and fun.” He quickly added “This is not an oxymoron. You can have the two in the same sentence.” The objective of the game is to "save the world, one disease at a time, by harvesting molecules (a little like Farmville) and then using them as trading cards to play against diseases (a little like Pokemon). A player must first investigate molecular compounds at a research desk before putting them to the test in the laboratory, then conduct clinical trials and, if successful, advance a treatment to market" (see the MM&M review here). You can see a Syrum "trailer" here. BI's objective is to create a "kick-ass game," says Pugh. I can't wait to try out the game and get to the last level, which I presume is "marketing." Is this game -- or any other game dreamed up by pharma marketers/PR people -- really "kick-ass?"
Eye symptoms thyrotoxixosis Using comparative effectiveness research t... [Pharmacoeconomics. 2010 RT @markhawker: Brian Cox is wrong: Blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster. A few days ago, the Guardian ran a Q&A session with Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. Cox and Forshaw are professors of physics at the University of Manchester, both involved in research with the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. Cox is of course well known for his wonderful media exploits on the BBC. Forshaw and Cox have written a book together, their second collaboration, which is coming out this week. In an emailed question for the Q&A, reader Stephen Marks asked: "How do you feel about scientists who blog their research rather than waiting to publish their final results?" Brian Cox: The peer review process works and I'm an enormous supporter of it. Jeff Forshaw: I think it's unfair for people to blog. Well, that's a little disappointing. I agree with Cox that peer review deserves our respect. His "recipe for disaster" remark is surprising, considering his own field of work. The majority of scientists writing online about their work are not anti-establishment mavericks with a hero complex.
RT @jranck: 17 Alternatives to Klout actually, I'm so over this crap, who cares... As we wrote about earlier this week, Klout has reworked its algorithms, and your scores have changed. Some have gone up, some down. Despite claiming more transparency with their algorithms, they are still mostly opaque and mysterious. So while they tinker with their code, you might want to explore other alternatives that can help you measure your social media effectiveness. Before I run through the services, let’s discuss eight different issues with social media metrics and how the ideal metric should be constructed. There is no single number that can really be universally useful. You are also measuring two grossly different activities: giving and taking. How transparent is their algorithm, really? Can you examine any time-series? How much does the service care if your content is original vs. copied? How many different social networks should be scanned to derive your total score, and how should they be weighed? Does the tool provide qualitative suggestions in addition to just scores?
“@nlafferty: OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly from @dkernohan - for life in a 'cold climate' With the uncertainties of a new funding model to deal with, it is becoming harder than ever to convince institutional managers to support nice-to-have projects. Everything needs to be justified, both on a balance sheet and within a wider battle for hearts and minds. But the way in which open educational resources (OER) allow institutions to meet their strategic goals alongside making the world a better place means that it is moving from being nice-to-have to becoming an essential component of academic practice. More than 10 years on from the formal establishment of the OpenCourseWare project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the casual observer could be forgiven for assuming that the case for OER (materials suitable for learning and teaching, made available for reuse under an open licence) had been made and accepted. David Kernohan is a programme manager at JISC, an organisation that encourages UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies.