Christmas 2013
Every year at this time, some of the major medical journals publish special Christmas articles. The BMJ and the CMAJ offer some open access articles for our holiday reading.
From this year’s December issue of the British Medical Journal: Christmas 2013 Research
Food For Thought. Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis
Were James Bond’s drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor? [ See a chart of Bond’s alcohol units per week, 1963-1965]
“Compulsive plague! pain without end!” How Richard Wagner played out his migraine in the opera ...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - December 13, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: annietv600 Tags: Christmas Journal Issues Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Christmas 2013
Every year at this time, some of the major medical journals publish special Christmas articles. The BMJ and the CMAJ offer some open access articles for our holiday reading.
From this year’s December issue of the British Medical Journal: Christmas 2013 Research
Food For Thought. Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis
Were James Bond’s drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor? [ See a chart of Bond's alcohol units per week, 1963-1965]
“Compulsive plague! pain without end!” How Richard Wagner played out his migraine in the opera Siegfr...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - December 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Christmas Journal Issues Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Research in Medical Education (RIME) Conference
Every year an important meeting for medical educators and researchers is the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Conference, which forms part of the American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting.
The 2013 Annual AAMC Meeting runs from November 1-6 in Philadelphia. Read the abstracts here [see p. 2-3].
For many years the RIME abstracts were published in a special issue of Academic Medicine and indexed in PubMed.
Most earlier PubMed records for RIME do not include the abstracts. If you are interested in reading the RIME abstracts back to 1990, you can view the relevant issues of Academic Medicine, or link to...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - November 3, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Continuing Health Education Source Type: blogs
Visualizing PubMed
There are a number of sites where you can do a PubMed search and display the results in interesting and sometimes quirky ways.
Here is a KNAKIJ search on low back pain[mh] AND laser therapy, low level[mh]. You can click on the circles and link to PubMed records.
Here are some of these visualizing sites:
PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is a front-end for the popular PubMed literature database at the NCBI. When you submit your query (which can be any query that can be processed by PubMed), PubReMiner will process the result of that query and display its results (in the form of selectable “keywords”) in frequency t...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - September 7, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Information Seeking Keeping up to Date Literature Searching Web Resources / Search Tools Source Type: blogs
Red Flags, Yellow Flags, Blue Flags, Black Flags
This page was originally posted on September 21, 2006. It has been the most viewed page on this blog. Updated February 22, 2013.
The other day a student asked me where the phrase “red flag” originated. He had also heard of yellow flags, and suspected that there were other colours of flags to indicate barriers to recovery. Well, we looked in various glossaries of medical and medical education terms, without success. So I e-mailed Dr. Shawn Thistle, and, sure enough, he helped. It is difficult to find where these terms originated (try Googling blue flags!) and Dr. Thistle thinks they may just be part of ever...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - February 22, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Patient Care Source Type: blogs
New Page ~ Systematic Reviews
This new page contains links to resources that will get you started on preparing systematic reviews … (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - December 30, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Evidence Based Health Care Information Seeking Writing & Publishing Source Type: blogs
Christmas 2012
Every year at this time, some of the major medical journals publish special Christmas issues. The BMJ and the CMAJ offer some open access articles for our holiday reading. From this year’s December issues of the British Medical Journal: – Christmas 2012
Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study
Nutritional content of supermarket ready meals and recipes by television chefs in the United Kingdom: cross sectional study
Why Rudolph’s nose is red: observational study [including video]
Using a dog’s superior olfactory sensitivity to identify Clostridium difficil...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - December 21, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Christmas Journal Issues Friday Fun Source Type: blogs
Web Sites, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn ~ What I ’m doing now
Hello, everyone out there ~
I haven’t been keeping this blog up to date but I am still very much involved in continuing health education and chiropractic. This is what I am doing now, and you can see the twitter feeds from this site ~
I am the Web editor for ICL and still have involvement with CACHE:
I administer facebook pages for Index to Chiropractic Literature and CACHE/ACEMC
Both of these facebook pages automatically produce Tweets for my Twitter accounts for Index to Chiropractic Literature and CACHE/ACEMC. You can read all my Twitter accounts from the sidebars of this blog.
I have Site Meters for In...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 12, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Continuing Health Education Source Type: blogs
Web Sites, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn ~ What I’m doing now
Hello, everyone out there ~
I haven’t been keeping this blog up to date but I am still very much involved in continuing health education and chiropractic. This is what I am doing now, and you can see the twitter feeds from this site ~
I am the Web editor for ICL and still have involvement with CACHE:
I administer facebook pages for Index to Chiropractic Literature and CACHE/ACEMC
Both of these facebook pages automatically produce Tweets for my Twitter accounts for Index to Chiropractic Literature and CACHE/ACEMC. You can read all my Twitter accounts from the sidebars of this blog.
I have Site Meters for In...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - April 12, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Chiropractic/CAM Continuing Health Education Source Type: blogs
CE Measure: The Journal of Outcome Measurement in Continuing Healthcare Education
CE Measure is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated specifically to the art and science of healthcare educational outcomes measurement.
Original manuscripts that address outcomes methodologies, results, practice-based protocols, CE conference highlights and abstracts, and case histories will be published to promote vigorous academic scrutiny of this important subject.
Sample articles (all available free online):
Changing Performance among Practicing Pharmacists through Comprehensive Educational Initiatives
Use of Uniform Outcomes Methodologies to Measure Clinical Impact of Large-Scale CME Initiatives
Measures of Per...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - February 18, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Continuing Health Education Industry & Health Care Source Type: blogs
Brand names make it to the OED!
I first created this post in 2007, and apart from the home page, it has been the most viewed page on my blog (over 6,000 views). So here it is again, with a link to the latest OED update.
It’s fascinating to peruse the new words added to the OED. (Here is the latest update, December 2010.) Brand names often enter the language as generic terms, and I’ve listed a few of them below. (I wonder who they have in mind with the word “flip-flopper”. And what on earth is a cotylosaur? I thought “chicklet” meant a little piece of gum, but I was disappointed to discover that it means a small chick o...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - January 18, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
This blog on Wordle – January 8, 2010
These word clouds are fun to make on Wordle. This is a representation of this blog, today (atvtoronto). (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - January 8, 2011 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: annietv600 Tags: Social Media Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
This blog on Wordle – January 8, 2010
These word clouds are fun to make on Wordle. This is a representation of this blog, today (atvtoronto). (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG)
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - January 8, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Social Media Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
