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Autonomy, Belonging, Competence. GMC reports on the ABC of wellbeing.

Caring for doctors Caring for patients: An independent report into the wellbeing of UK medical students and doctors. "In 2018 we commissioned Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia, to carry out a UK-wide review to help tackle the causes of poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors. ...
Source: gmc-uk.org

Publication bias is a challenge in science and a criticism of the influence of industry.

Publication bias is a challenge in science and a criticism of the influence of industry. In the domain of biosciences and drug development more accountability (e.g. the FDAAA 2007), editorial and peer-review training (as suggested by the Cochrane Collaboration), and statistical techniques (as championed...

Physicians reported less burnout and emotional exhaustion after receiving short-term professional coaching.

Physicians reported less burnout and emotional exhaustion after receiving short-term professional coaching, according to a pilot trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Counseling Reduces Physician Burnout Anita Slomski. JAMA. 2019;322(16):1544 This editorial in JAMA comments on the recent paper:...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Using artificial intelligence to read chest radiographs for tuberculosis detection: A multi-site evaluation

Using artificial intelligence to read chest radiographs for tuberculosis detection: A multi-site evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of three deep learning systems: Deep learning (DL) neural networks have only recently been employed to interpret chest radiography (CXR) to screen and triage people for...
Source: nature.com

How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature.

How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature. The approach suggests a series of questions (see diagram) to challenge a particular phenomenon to check if it is a scenario that can be used in future planning - or if it is...
Source: wiley.com

Inspired by @oldaily's #el30 Elearning 3.0 series I have just added a #meded project to the distributed web. It now has

Inspired by @oldaily's #el30 Elearning 3.0 series I have just added a #meded project to the distributed web. It now has a permanent place on the web without even requiring a server. #eldercareApp https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/Qme7F72usRCWJtRzRXBaUeKmeQW2xCChdCHaVXQdTJP2c3/ So what does that all...
Source: ipfs.io

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions: Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions: Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published. European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free...
Source: nature.com

Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's

Chatbot claims to beat GPs at medical exam: The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's software. Aiming your chatbot at published, purposefully language clue-filled test items from the MRCGP exam seems to me to be more about self-publicity than actually funding and...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem

I've been looking for another way of presenting evidence for instructional design that is more efficient than simple lectures. The data collected by Benjamin Bloom and published in 1984 seems useful and I've redrawn the graph so it looks more modern than the line drawings of the original. Learning as...
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In a hole in a tunicate there lived a hobbit: New shrimp species named after Bilbo Baggins: A new species of shrimp was

In a hole in a tunicate there lived a hobbit: New shrimp species named after Bilbo Baggins: A new species of shrimp was named after Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins thanks to its small size and hairy feet. The new species, Odontonia bagginsi, was described, figured and named together with another new species:...
Source: eurekalert.org

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the "PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize" program with the aim to recognize some of the journal's most outstanding...
Source: plos.org

Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost

Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis: Objective To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost effectiveness of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for patients with atrial fibrillation. Design...
Source: bmj.com

The DPCC-MS communication skills competency instrument. A simple 5 item instrument. "Validation of the 5-item doctor-patient

The DPCC-MS communication skills competency instrument. A simple 5 item instrument. "Validation of the 5-item doctor-patient communication competency instrument for medical students (DPCC-MS) using two years of assessment data: Medical students on clinical rotations have to be assessed on several competencies...
Source: biomedcentral.com

From research to practice: results of 7300 mortality retrospective case record reviews in four acute hospitals in the North-East

From research to practice: results of 7300 mortality retrospective case record reviews in four acute hospitals in the North-East of England. Reviews using clinicians within trusts produce lower estimates of preventable deaths than published results using external clinicians. More research is needed...
Source: bmj.com

67% of Americans use social media to get some of their news; Twitter and Snapchat for news are getting more popular: Sixty-seven

67% of Americans use social media to get some of their news; Twitter and Snapchat for news are getting more popular: Sixty-seven percent of Americans report getting some of their news via social media at some point, according to a Pew Research survey of just under 5,000 U.S. adults conducted last month...
Source: niemanlab.org

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress testing was introduced to the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland in 2013. As there has been a focus in published literature on aspects relating to the format or function...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, finds that current smoking in older people increases the risk of developing frailty, though f…
Source: wordpress.com

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Source: phys.org

Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise

Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise known as smartphone separation anxiety, and what behaviors and descriptors can help identify people with high nomophobia who tend to perceive smartphones as their extended selves?...
Source: liebertpub.com

Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors: Chimpanzees of all ages and all sexes can learn the simple circular relationship

Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors: Chimpanzees of all ages and all sexes can learn the simple circular relationship between the three different hand signals used in the well-known game rock-paper-scissors. Jie Gao of Kyoto University in Japan and Peking University in China is lead author of a study...
Source: eurekalert.org