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Choose a page number: 1 Education RSS FeedsSalmond's free school meals plan scrapes through - A HOLYROOD committee yesterday voted by a narrow margin to support a flagship SNP policy of providing free school meals for all five- to seven-year-olds. ...Feed Source: news.scotsman.com Saturday Night Fever for Jack after invite to Bee Gees' party - EDINBURGH'S latest teenage singing sensation, who dazzled celebrity judges in a UK talent competition, is set to share a stage with a Bee Gee and a Rolling Stone.
... Santa flies in for opening - SANTA Claus will fly into a Midlothian garden centre this weekend to celebrate the opening of his grotto.
... £58m college campuses aim to re-train for economic recovery - IT has been six years in the planning, 18 months in construction and has cost £58 million.
... School meals back on menu as mothballed kitchen to reopen - A PRIMARY school kitchen "mothballed" by the council is set to reopen, following a successful community campaign.
... Giving bullied pupils a place to seek solace in hard times - BALGREEN Primary School in the west of Edinburgh is one of only 11 schools in the country with a Place2Be.... Hugh Reilly: Charity gets message across as it says hello to Holyrood - LAST week, I managed to slip under the wire and swap the tedium of school for the excitement of attending a parliamentary reception for Mindroom, a Scottish charity.
... From the Chalkface - THE former director of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in Scotland has been appointed as a member of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council... Students raise £1000 for breast cancer charity - STAFF and students at a Lothians college have donated £1000 to a breast cancer charity.
... Talks aim to boost diversity - THE BENEFITS of a wide-ranging workforce will be highlighted at two events during West Lothian's forthcoming Diversity Week.
... Council loans £5m to schools project - ABERDEEN City Council yesterday agreed to give a £5 million bridging loan to a construction consortium.
... Higher Education in Wisconsin - Presented here are a number of sources on the history, organizational structure, and financing of higher education in Wisconsin.... College Affordability - The cost of a college education is rising faster than inflation. At the same time many states are decreasing the amount of state aid to higher education, putting even more pressure on institutions to raise tuition and fees.... Goodbye.. - I'm going to retire this site. A new experimental site can be found here.... Timelit - "TIMELIT covers the subject of medical education. At present the database contains almost 50,000 items collected over the past two decades by the Director of the Centre for Medical Education at Dundee, RM Harden. The personal nature of this collection brings the benefit of relevance, but means the collection cannot be a complete reflection of all the work in any field.
The references cover a range of topics in: healthcare professional education, in health education and in patient education. They also pick up on specific topics, e.g. smoking, and on neglected areas, e.g. palliative care. Sources are many and varied. Journals include: medical education, general education, specialised areas of education, medicine and medical specialities. There is a range of magazines and newsletters - and even some material from newspapers.
Original versions of most references are available in the Centre for Medical Education, Dundee.
TIMELIT is supported by the Scottish Council for Postgraduat... Lab Tests Online - "Information on testing is not always available or easily located, and sometimes when it can be found, it is sometimes inadequate in addressing the needs of patients and their families. Lab Tests Online aims to change all that."... JAMA: Health Information on the Internet - Quote: "Accessing health information using search engines and simple search terms is not efficient. Coverage of key information on English- and Spanish-language Web sites is poor and inconsistent, although the accuracy of the information provided is generally good. High reading levels are required to comprehend Web-based health information."... Medical Matrix - Quote: "Medical Matrix is a free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet. Each site listing has been carefully evaluated by reviewers from our panel of physicians and medical librarians. Medical Matrix lists only those sites that meet our criteria for information quality and site usability, with an emphasis on usefulness to healthcare practitioners."Comment: Free registration required. From an email: "Medical Matrix has been totally re-designed for ease of use, many new web sites have been added, and the search engine has been technologically enhanced to deliver relevant search results from over 1,000,000 medical documents.... USD Becomes First in U.S. to Require Palm Handhelds - Quote: "In a move that puts it at the forefront of mobile technology use on campuses, The University of South Dakota (USD) of Vermillion today announces it will provide Palm(TM) handheld computers to all first-year undergraduate students as well as first-year law and medical school students."... Computer assisted learning in medical education - British Medical Journal: "It is becoming "a truth universally acknowledged" that the education of undergraduate medical students will be enhanced through the use of computer assisted learning. Access to the wide range of online options illustrated in the figure must surely make learning more exciting, effective, and likely to be retained. This assumption is potentially but by no means inevitably correct." Computer assisted learning in undergraduate medical education. Trisha Greenhalgh. BMJ 2001;322 40-44.... 3D Sinus Pictures - "If you follow the 3D Sinus Pictures links on the right from top to bottom, you will learn about the inside of your nose and sinuses. These images are from the virtual reality environment that I have created. Its purpose is to help explain sinus and nasal topics to patients, primary care physicians, and specialists." Peter Casano, M.D.... More Otoscopy Links - Here are some additional websites with otoscopic images of the tympanic membrane:
MedRx, Inc: Diseases of the Ear
Audiology Forum: Video Otoscopy: Section on Tympanic Membrane/Middle ear. Roy F. Sullivan, Ph.D.
University of the Philippines Otitis Media Updates: Otoscopic Findings
Virtual Otorhinolaryngology Clinic
University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Pediatrics: Grading Acute Otitis Media... Practical ENT For Primary Care Physicians - The chapters in this manual represent the top-ranking ENT issues, as identified by a survey of family physicians and ENTs in Ontario. Many useful illustrations. MM Carr, DDS MD MEd, Staff Otolaryngologist, Department of Otolaryngology, Toronto General Hospital.... AAP Online Learning in Otitis Media - The American Academy of Pediatrics Online Learning in Otitis Media site includes a series of case studies featuring QuickTime video of pneumatic otoscopy and a nice pneumatic otoscopy review course.... ACP-ASIM Online - Center for Ethics and Professionalism - "The Center is devoted to policy development and implementation on issues related to medical ethics and professionalism and serves as a resource for ACP-ASIM members and the public. Current special projects focus on end-of-life care, managed care ethics, and professionalism issues through the development of position papers, ethics case studies, educational programs and resources, and advocacy and outreach efforts." See also, the full-text of the ACP-ASIM Ethics Manual, and a list of other online bioethics resources.... Gifts to Physicians in the Consumer Marketing Era - "Despite their concerns about the marketing of drugs to consumers, physicians are not exempt from the ethical issues raised by pharmaceutical marketing. Issues of influence, patient-physician distrust, and a susceptibility to marketing ploys apply to caregivers as well as to patients. By highlighting these parallels, the debate over DTC advertising may be a useful way for the medical profession to reflect on its own relationship with the pharmaceutical industry." Gifts to Physicians in the Consumer Marketing Era. Michael A. Steinman, MD. MSJAMA Vol 284, p 2243, November 1, 2000.... The Visible Embryo - "This spiral represents the 23 stages occurring in the first trimester of pregnancy and every two weeks of the second and third trimesters. Use the spiral to navigate through the 40 weeks of pregnancy and preview the unique changes in each stage of human development." This is a commercial site with a free section. It was created by Mouseworks, Inc. with an NIH grant.... Zygote: A Developmental Biology Website - "The major function of this website is to provide materials to supplement and enrich courses in developmental biology. It is not a textbook. While its chapter headings are those of a textbook, the learner is able to choose his or her own path through the different 'exhibits'. It is more like a museum than a book." Scott Gilbert, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College. See also his list of developmental biology websites.... Copyright © 2008, Blurbosphere.com. All Rights Reserved. |
