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AMEE Summary

 

 

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AMEE Summary

via James Giles by jamesagiles on 11/09/10

Conferences can be so exhausting! It is quite an intense way to spend a few days – surrounded by a particular field. Els and I had the pleasure spending the conference with a third year medical student from Manchester – I won't include her name, as we had conversations about Facebook, Twitter and privacy!

My first conference was AMEE 2009, when I presented a poster with Ambrose Boles on the first PAL audit. I have really become immersed in the academic world this year, so much so that it is hard to see myself doing anything else. Els and I spoke to Rachel Lindley, a GP Teaching Fellow, at the conference about introducing other medical students to presenting at conferences – that first one is the hardest, where most support is needed.

I'd like to summarise some of the key things I took from AMEE:

e-Learning

Had an interesting conversation with Rachel Ellaway, the world's foremost authority on e-learning in medical education.  She had some fantastic insight into Fastbleep and where to take the work I'm involved in with Kurt and Rachel. Verdict on virtual patients? Less is more – fewer, simple patients are more effective than more complex patient scenarios.

Peer-Assisted Learning

I went to 2 PAL sessions, one poster and one short communication session. Els delivered the research presentations brilliantly in both. Most of the presentations focus on a 'novel' innovation in the field (inverted commas as it seems this adjective is necessary for poster acceptance).  The Manchester project stood out though as reaching beyond description of schemes into understanding this particular educational setting.

I was interested to hear a presentation from Sheffield Medical School about the Peer-Teaching Society, a different model to PAL Manchester. I'd like to collaborate with these guys on future evaluation projects – it would be good to see if using different models of PAL has any implications for the peer relationship.

Roll on November: Neuroscience 2010, San Diego, CA!

 

 

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review of internet- based medical education

Interesting synthesis review on internet learning in medical education: http://bit.ly/cQAXyg

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Internet in Medicine University Course: Medical blogging

 

 

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Internet in Medicine University Course: Medical blogging

via ScienceRoll by Dr. Bertalan Meskó on 04/10/10

We just finished the second lecture of the "Internet in Medicine" university credit course which was dedicated to medical blogging. Here is the summary of my presentations.

• Definition of blog, post, trackback, pingback, comment, tag.
• First blog: Jorn Barger, 1997
• Technorati statistics about the state of the entire blogosphere
• Blogs in plain English:

• Types of blogs and bloggers
• Major medical blogs as examples: Kevin, MD; Medgadget; Sixuntilme; Doctor Anonymous; Street Anatomy.
• Analyzing the results of the study of Ivor Kovic et al. (Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers)
• Blog carnivals and microcarnivals
• How to educate with blogs (e.g. Alan J Cann)
• Some examples such as the recent post from Sergey Brin about his genes and the posts it led to (Gene Sherpa, Scienceroll, Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
• Dangers and how to fight them: Honcode, privacy issues, HIPAA, etc.
• The lesson of Dr. Flea
• Money is not everything: the Scienceblogs.com story and many more
• Why do physicians blog?

• Future? Streaming your life. E.g.: yongfook.com

In the second slideshow, I described how to start a new blog step-by-step.

• You need to answer 3 questions first before starting a blog:
• What kind of blogger will I be?
• Where should I blog? WordPress.com
• How should I blog?
• My "3 blogging rule" described what you need to become a good blogger: commitment, consistency and openness
• Shared many examples about how to build a successful medical blog.

Take-home message:

A medical blog can be a perfect channel to make new contacts, find new opportunities and share your ideas with the world.

The 2 slideshows are described in details on Webicina.com's e-guide:

See you next week when we will talk about Twitter in Medicine and also how to keep yourself up-to-date with RSS.

 

 

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