How to escape education’s death valley
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them.
Great talk detailing how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning Featured ADHD death valley Inspiration ken robinson TED Source Type: blogs
Primer for Clinical Researchers in the Emergency Department
EMA Virtual Issue from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Research is important to emergency medicine as it provides the scientific underpinning for optimal patient care. A Primer for Clinical Researchers in the Emergency Department, a five part series guest edited by Professor Franz Babl, has been combined into a single FREE full-text online ‘Virtual Issue’
This Virtual Issue series addresses key topics for clinicians who conduct research as part of their work in the ED, including:
Ethical and regulatory background
Research science and conduct
How to write a scientific paper
Multicentre research
How to describe data...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 9, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Clinical Research Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Journal emergency medicine australasia FOAM Franz Babl Professor Franz Babl Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 027
TechTool review of SimpLog by Azher Merchant on iOS (iPhone)
Website: – iTunes - Website
SimpLog allows you to keep track of patient follow-up from ED, so you will remember to chase results, call the patient to check their symptoms are improving or arrange follow up. The idea is great but the execution of this app really lets the concept down
Design and User Interface
The ‘Simp’ clue in the title clearly flags up that this isn’t going to be a fancy app. Actually the overall design is reasonable with clear graphics and an decent attempt at a colour scheme to brighten things up. And the user inte...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 9, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool iphone iPhone App SimpLog Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 027
TechTool review of SimpLog by Azher Merchant on iOS (iPhone)
Website: – iTunes - Website
SimpLog allows you to keep track of patient follow-up from ED, so you will remember to chase results, call the patient to check their symptoms are improving or arrange follow up. The idea is great but the execution of this app really lets the concept down
Design and User Interface
The ‘Simp’ clue in the title clearly flags up that this isn’t going to be a fancy app. Actually the overall design is reasonable with clear graphics and an decent attempt at a colour scheme to brighten things up. And the user inte...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 9, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool iphone iPhone App SimpLog Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 103
Welcome to the 103rd edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
The Sono Cave
For those of you that love ultrasound or just learning – The Sono Cave is the ultimate EM blog fo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 103
Welcome to the 103rd edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
The Sono Cave
For those of you that love ultrasound or just learning – The Sono Cave is the ultimate EM blog fo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
E-readiness in the social care sector
This Ipsos MORI study assessed the current use of perceptions of
e-learning within the sector. The report also examines wider training
practices and the adoption of ICT within the workplace, including an
analysis of how ready employers and staff feel they are to e-learning.
Findings will feed into SCIE’s Get Connected programme, which aims to enable providers of care for adults in England to access ICT more effectively.
Report
SCIE - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 23, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: New technologies Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 102
Welcome to the 102nd edition!The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the WeekResus.MECliff Reid over at Resus.ME smashes his way to top spot this week, as he brings us 3 great hot-of-the-press art...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 102
Welcome to the 102nd edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
Resus.ME
Cliff Reid over at Resus.ME smashes his way to top spot this week, as he brings us 3 great hot-of-the-pres...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The Countess of Chester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: empowering, innovating and transforming using Electronic Service REcord (ESR) self service
This case study details the Countess of Chester Hospital’s
experiences of rolling out the functionality of manager self service.
From the outset, the Trust has utilised the full functionality of Self
Service, in addition to integrating the OLM/e-Learning functionality,
and this has positioned them as one of the leaders across the North West
region.
Case study
NHS Employers - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 22, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: New technologies Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 025
TechTool review of drawMD – Anesthesia & Critical Care by UrologyMatch on iPad Website: – iTunes - Website drawMD is a beautiful app for the iPad that allows you to explain procedures and illnesses to your patients by using customised diagramatic visual aids. The app provides templates for anatomical explanations and you can customise these by adding extra stamps or your own drawings.Clinical ContentThe app has 11 basic background pictures to get you started and any details can be added on top of this. These include: arm, chest, spine, heart and abdomen.To illustrate an example (see the images below)...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 18, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured application iOs iPad Reviews Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 025
TechTool review of drawMD – Anesthesia & Critical Care by UrologyMatch on iPad
Website: – iTunes - Website
drawMD is a beautiful app for the iPad that allows you to explain procedures and illnesses to your patients by using customised diagramatic visual aids. The app provides templates for anatomical explanations and you can customise these by adding extra stamps or your own drawings.
Clinical Content
The app has 11 basic background pictures to get you started and any details can be added on top of this. These include: arm, chest, spine, heart and abdomen.
To illustrate an example (see the images ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 18, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured application iOs iPad Reviews Source Type: blogs
EMA April 2013
From Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Issue 2 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online on 6 February 2013
Stroke thrombolysis: editorial perspectives and letters (#FOAMed)
Debate continues on the use of tPA in acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Editorial by Klening et al, address previous (October 2012) criticisms in editorials by Hoffmann & Cooper and Fatovich, arguing that, despite its acknowledged flaws, the Third International Stroke Trial (IST-3) strengthens the evidence for the benefits of thrombolysis within up to 6 hours of AIS and also shows a corresponding benefit for elderly p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal April emergency medicine australasia Source Type: blogs
