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Clinically contextualised ECG interpretation: the impact of prior clinical exposure and case vignettes on ECG diagnostic

Does teaching ECGs with a clinical vignette improve training? Not greatly ... but having seen a condition previously (and presumably the ECG that went with it) is probably best. The researchers concluded that "ECG training should therefore not rely on experiential learning alone, but instead be supplemented...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie: 100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing

Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie: 100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for smuggling Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium. Vanessa Heggie explains how a nurse became a spy
Source: theguardian.com