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Purpose—To investigate the association between physician participants’ levels of engagement in a Web-based educational intervention and their patients’ baseline diabetes measures.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158730/pdf/nihms313983.pdf
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Background: Clinicians in developing countries have had limited access to continuing education (CE) outside major cities, and CE strategies have had limited impact on sustainable change in performance. New educational tools could improve CE accessibility and effectiveness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090386/pdf/pone.0019318.pdf
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Background: The Spanish Palliative Care Strategy recommends an intermediate level of training for primary care physicians in order to provide them with knowledge and skills. Most of the training involves face-to-face courses but increasing pressures on physicians have resulted in fewer opportunities for provision of and attendance to this type of training. The effectiveness of on-line continuing medical education in terms of its impact on clinical practice has been scarcely studied. Its effect in relation to palliative care for primary care physicians is currently unknown, in terms of improvement in patient’s quality of life and main caregiver’s satisfaction. There is uncertainty
too in terms of any potential benefits of asynchronous communication and interaction among on-line education participants, as well as of the effect of the learning process.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123578/pdf/1471-2296-12-37.pdf
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Background: Distance learning may be useful for building health research capacity. However, evidence that it can improve knowledge and skills in health research, particularly in resource-poor settings, is limited. We compared the impact and acceptability of teaching two distinct content areas, Biostatistics and Research Ethics, through either on-line distance learning format or traditional on-site training, in a randomized study in India. Our objective was to determine whether on-line courses in Biostatistics and Research Ethics could achieve similar improvements in knowledge, as traditional on-site, classroom-based courses.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141795/pdf/1472-6920-11-37.pdf
15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have
via Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have.
Background Physician referrals play a central role in ambulatory care in the United States; however, little is known about national trends in physician referrals over time. The objective of this study was to assess changes in the annual rate of referrals to other physicians from physician office visits in the United States from 1999 to 2009.
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BACKGROUND:
Many studies have explored approaches to learning in medical school, mostly in the classroom setting. In the clinical setting, students face different conditions that may affect their learning. Understanding students’ approaches to learning is important to improve learning in the clinical setting. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) as an instrument for measuring clinical learning in medical education and also to show whether learning approaches vary between rotations.
via Measuring students’ approaches to learning in d… [BMC Med Educ. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI.
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BACKGROUND:
The Institute of Medicine has called for physician education as a key step in medical error prevention. In our 2002 national survey, pediatric resident education about medical error prevention was sporadic. We sought to describe the amount and type of pediatric resident training about medical errors and to assess the change in training since 2002.
via Trends in Medical Error Education: Are We Faili… [Acad Pediatr. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI.
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Medical Education 2012: 46: 1189-1193 Context Learning in the clinical environment is believed to be a crucial component of residency training. However, it remains unclear whether recent changes to postgraduate medical education, including the implementation of work hour limitations, have significantly impacted opportunities for experiential learning. Therefore, we sought to quantify opportunities to gain clinical experience within medical-surgical intensive care units (ICUs) over time.
via Changes in residents’ opportunities for experientia… [Med Educ. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI.
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Medical Education 2012: 46: 1206-1214 Context Basic medical sciences education differs among medicine courses, especially as traditional and integrated problem-based learning (PBL) curricula teach basic sciences in very different ways. The literature shows no clear differences in the performance of students of these different educational philosophies.
via Development of knowledge in basic sciences: a compa… [Med Educ. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI.
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