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Author: Brian S McGowan, PhD

ABSTRACT: Closing the Patient-Oncologist Communication Gap: A Review of Historic and Current Efforts

Effective communication is essential in developing any relationship-this is particularly true between oncologists and their patients. The patient-oncologist relationship is one of the most delicate in medicine, and given the strong emotions associated with cancer, successful communication plays a paramount role in the wellbeing of patients and oncologists. Significant advances to close the communication gap have occurred over the past several decades, largely by addressing deficiencies in the various stages of an oncologist’s lengthy training: undergraduate medical education, residency and fellowship, and continuing medical education. Stemming from several milestones achieved by highly motivated groups of individuals, including the creation of consensus statements and guidelines by communication education experts, progress has been made to improve patient-oncologist communication. This progress is marked by the development of evidence-based communication skills training programs, such as Oncotalk and Comskil, in addition to the creation of distant-learning modalities, such as the Studying Communication in Oncologist-Patient Encounters trial. This review article outlines the history of communication education during medical education and training, and brings to light more recent efforts to promote competent, communication-minded physicians necessary for effective cancer care.

via Closing the Patient-Oncologist Communication G… [J Cancer Educ. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI.

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RESOURCE: The 5 Best Free Note Taking Tools for Teachers

Note-taking is an essential part of the educational process in order for students to retain and fully process information. However, getting students to hand-write effective notes with a pencil and paper can be difficult. Get your class excited to take notes with the 5 Best Free Note-Taking Tools for Teachers.

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RESOURCE: How To Get More Out Of Your PLN Using Twitter

So, you’ve made a Twitter account and are completely hooked. You’re following a bunch of people, companies, institutions… and if you walk away from Twitter for more than an hour, it seems like you can’t possibly keep up. While the constant stream of information is incredible, it is also overwhelming. Too much to sift through? Doubting all the hype? Are you finding this Twitter thing to be an #epicfail?

via How To Get More Out Of Your PLN Using Twitter – Edudemic – Edudemic.

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RESOURCE: 10 Tips to Be a Great Online Teacher

Teaching online is the new Holy Grail for many young K-12 educators. They dream about how wonderful it would be to spend part of their day working from home and conduct meaningful interactions with students online while preparing dinner. To them, teaching online means never having to be anywhere at any particular time, never having to wear uncomfortable and never being asked a question without having time to research the answer.

Nevertheless, the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the network connection. While online teaching offers many rewards for instructors, it takes a special set of skills and attitudes to excel at it. Here are 10 tips you shall need to be a successful online teacher:

via 10 Tips to Be a Great Online Teacher – EdTechReview™ (ETR).

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RESOURCE: Social Bookmarking Site for E-Learning Professionals

Content curation is the process of discovering, organizing and sharing quality online content. As we know there are numerous resources online for any topic, so, content curation becomes a key component in the process of learning. Content curation follows 5 steps basically from collecting the most relevant resources to organizing historical information by time.

Why content curation is important?

Content curation brings insights or key points to the forefront.
It ensures quality of content and ease of understanding of a particular topic.
It distills vast information and builds authority.
Great learning starts from curating great content. Especially for e-learning professionals and other educational stakeholders, content curation is at heart.

And today, we all do realize the importance of social learning, a part of which is Social bookmarking. Now, just imagine how effective it would be if you’ve an online platform to explore, bookmark, exchange and share the best curated e-learning content. ELearningTags makes your dream come true by bringing a great content platform which allows social bookmarking.

via eLearningTags.com – Social Bookmarking Site for E-Learning Professionals – EdTechReview™ (ETR).

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RESOURCE: List of EdTech Events Across the Globe Educators Must Know About

Educational Technologies are trending all over the world. EdTech enthusiasts are trying to find as many as possible technological approaches that help the education system to grow and improve. For all such educators, administrators, students and parents, we bring some of the best EdTech events around the world, that are about to commence

via List of EdTech Events Across the Globe Educators Must Know About – EdTechReview™ ETR.

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ABSTRACT: A Randomized Trial of Two e-Learning Strategies for Teaching Substance Abuse Management Skills to Physicians

PURPOSE:To compare the educational effectiveness of two virtual patient VP-based e-learning strategies, versus no training, in improving physicians substance abuse management knowledge, attitudes, self-reported behaviors, and decision making.METHOD:The 2011-2012 study was a posttest-only, three-arm, randomized controlled trial in 90 resident and 30 faculty physicians from five adult medicine primary care training programs. The intervention was one of two 2-hour VP-based e-learning programs, designed by national experts to teach structured screening, brief interventions, referral, and treatment skills. One used traditional problem solving with feedback unworked example, and the other incorporated an expert demonstration first, followed by problem solving with feedback worked example. The main outcome measure was performance on the Physicians Competence in Substance Abuse Test P-CSAT, maximum score = 315, a self-administered, previously validated measure of physicians competence in managing substance abuse. The survey was completed at the outset of the study and two months later.RESULTS:Overall P-CSAT scores were virtually identical 202-211, P > .05 between both intervention groups and the no-training control group at both times. Average faculty P-CSAT scores 221.9, 224.6 were significantly higher P < .01 than resident scores 203.7, 202.5 at both times.CONCLUSIONS:This study did not provide evidence that a brief, worked example, VP-based e-learning program or a traditional, unworked, VP-based e-learning program was superior to no training in improving physicians substance abuse management skills. The study did provide additional evidence that the P-CSAT distinguishes between physicians who should possess different levels of substance abuse management skills.

via A Randomized Trial of Two e-Learning Strategies for… [Acad Med. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI.

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A New Era in Online Learning: The Launch of ArcheViewer-Powered Medical Education

We are thrilled to announce that in coordination with our partners (Prova Education, ReachMD, AcademicCME, and Elsevier), we have launched the first eight lessons powered by the ArcheViewer! These practical case-based and video-based lessons have been uniquely designed to meet the educational and learning action needs of neurologists, cardiologists, hepatologists, endocrinologists, gastro-enterologists, hospitalists, and family physicians. In addition, we have made terrific progress with another partner, New Jersey Academy of Physicians, to create the first Virtual Course launching later this year.

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Together with our Partners we have come a long way, but this is just the beginning. With the launch of these programs, our Partners can now engage learners in real-time and rapidly update and modify their educational content to ensure that it remains timely and relevant throughout the duration of the accreditation period. Following each program launch, Partners can integrate new and emerging data and learning objects into their lessons and begin to dynamically “nudge” learners using our real-time assessment model and simplified authoring tools.

To learn more about our progress and expanding capabilities, please visit the newly launched ArcheMedX website. In addition to detailed information covering our Solutions, Educational Programs, and the ArcheMedX Platform, you can now access over 1,000 articles, abstracts, resources, and tools in the ArcheMedX Resource Center.

Following these launches and with each new learner audience engaged, we will be accumulating mountains of data on clinician learning which will allow us to achieve the base mission of the ArcheMedx Research Program: enabling medical educators to move beyond asking ‘did our programs work?’ and begin measuring, ‘why (or how) did our programs succeed?’

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This is truly an exciting time, not only for the ArcheMedx team and our Partners, but also for the community of healthcare professionals engaging with this new model for learning! If you are interested in partnering with us to enhance your educational programs and to explore new research models, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly.

All the best,

Brian

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RESOURCE: 17 Tech Terms Connected Educators Must Know

From time to time, I find myself saying ridiculous things. Ridiculous in the ‘I grew up in the ’80′s’ sort of sense. Specifically, I have a hard time saying ‘record’ in reference to a TV show or movie, and instead I am inadvertently old-school and often refer to it as ‘videotaping’. I know, I know. No one has owned a VCR in years except for my grandma. But when I came across this handy visual it brought to mind things that truly connected educators should probably know before the upcoming school year, I was happy to see that I’m not the only one that needs to update my colloquial vocabulary. Even people much younger than me are losing some quite commonly spoken words as technology changes. What to know what to wipe out of your vocab to help keep yourself from looking like you live in the dark ages?

via 17 Tech Terms Connected Educators Must Know – Edudemic – Edudemic.

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ABSTRACT: The Evolving Role of Online Virtual Patients in Internal Medicine Clerkship Education Nationally.

PURPOSE:
Despite the significant resources required to develop and maintain virtual patient (VP) programs, little is known about why this innovation has been adopted and how it is implemented. Understanding needs and implementation strategies is important for effective curriculum planning.
METHOD:
In 2009 and 2011, surveys were offered to 110 U.S. internal medicine clerkship directors regarding their goals for adoption of Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience VPs. In 2011, respondents were asked how they implemented VPs in their curricula. Results were analyzed using chi-square and Fisher exact test.
RESULTS:
Responses were obtained from 33 clerkship directors in 2009 and 45 in 2011. Comparing 2009 with 2011, improving students’ knowledge (29/33 [88%] versus 40/45 [91%]), differential diagnoses (27/33 [82%] versus 38/45 [86%]), and ability to identify key findings (26/33 [79%] versus 38/45 [86%]) remained somewhat or very important reasons for adopting VPs. Meeting Liaison Committee on Medical Education ED-2 (31/33 [94%] versus 33/45 [73%], P = .011) and ED-8 requirements (25/33 [76%] versus 25/45 [56%], P = .004) declined in importance. Eight of 38 (21%) replaced a learning activity with VPs, 9/38 (24%) integrated VPs into other learning activities, and 21/38 (55%) simply added VPs onto their curricula.
CONCLUSIONS:
This large, multi-institutional study reports national trends in VP adoption and integration. Meeting cognitive learning objectives remained an important reason for adopting VPs, whereas meeting regulatory requirements decreased significantly in importance. Opportunities remain for more systematically integrating VPs into clerkship curricula. Clarifying the changing goals may help with this process.

via The Evolving Role of Online Virtual Patients in Int… [Acad Med. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI.

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