Let Medical Students Become 21st Century Physicians
We don’t need no obsolete medical education, sings the average medical student leaning on a fat volume of anatomy. Rightly so, as in the 21st century, students should learn about the human body through virtual reality, should familiarize themselves with digital health, and prepare for the sweeping changes technology brings upon the medical community already in medical school. Let’s reform medical education to nurture 21st century physicians!
What is the problem with the medical curriculum today?
Five years from now, surgical robots will become an average sight in a well-equipped OR, as in the next three years, surgical...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Education 3d printing artificial intelligence augmented reality curriculum digital health future of education Healthcare med school med student medical curriculum sensors virtual reality wearables Source Type: blogs
The Future of Emergency Medicine: Innovations Making Patients The Point-of-Care
Every minute spent without treatment could reduce the chance of survival in case of medical emergency and trauma patients. Digital health innovations making patients the point-of-care could become a great help for first responders and emergency units in the battle against time. Here, we collected what trends and technologies will have an impact on the future of emergency medicine.
Six minutes before brain damage
Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters. The difference between life and death often depends on the speed and efficiency of emergency care services. The work of doctors, paramedics, and nurses being in...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported CPR digital health emergency emergency medicine EMS first aid first response future Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
Differentiation of cognitive abilities in the WAIS-IV at the item level - ScienceDirect
AbstractIt is known that studying the differentiation of cognitive abilities is associated with many methodological challenges. In the recent years, methods have been developed to address these challenges. However, these methods require that the item scores of an intelligence test are combined into a composite score which may affect the power to detect the differentiation effect or even produce spurious results. Therefore, in this study, an item level approach is presented that can be used to simultaneously test for ability differentiation, age differentiation, and age differentiation-dedifferentiation. The new method is i...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - November 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Believers in conspiracy theories and the paranormal are more likely to see “illusory patterns”
By Emma Young
Democratic bankers caused the global financial crisis to get Barack Obama elected.
Horoscopes are right too often for it to be a coincidence.
Irrational beliefs – unfounded, unscientific and illogical assumptions about the world – are widespread among “the population of normal, mentally sane adults” note the authors of a new study in European Journal of Social Psychology. It’s been proposed that they arise from a mistaken perception of patterns in the world. But though this idea is popular among psychologists, there’s been surprisingly little direct evidence in favour of it. The new work, led ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Illusions Perception Source Type: blogs
Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala
Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org.
By: Karen Antman, MD
Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans
Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs
Mixed Reality in Healthcare – The HoloLens Review
What if medical students could project bear-sized holographic brains in their dorm rooms when studying for an anatomy exam? What if surgeons could use those holograms to prepare for complex surgeries or even support the operations themselves? HoloLens appears to be the platform for the medical application of mixed reality, so I was curious how it performs and whether it is already fit for healthcare. Check out my HoloLens review below!
An average day of Matt Woratzki in 2056 – Or how to imagine the future with HoloLens!
At 6.30 in the morning, the smart sleep alarm smoothly indicated that it’s time to wake up. Matt was...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Augmented Reality AR GC1 Healthcare HoloLens Innovation Medical education Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality Surgery technology virtual reality VR Source Type: blogs
Memo To White Nationalists From A Geneticist: Why White Purity Is A Terrible Idea
On
August 14th, UCLA researchers Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan presented
findings of their study, “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic
Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists,” at a sociology
conference in Montreal. They’d analyzed 3,070 comments organized into 70
threads publicly posted to the (sometimes difficult to access) “social movement
online community” Stormfront.Former
KKK Grand Wizard Don Black launched Stormfront on March 27, 1995. Posts exceed
12 million, ramping up since the 2016 election season. Panofsky and Donovan’s
report has ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Genetics Health Care Ethics and Hate syndicated Source Type: blogs
This Land is Our Land
When we work with people who are living with dementia, we often are privileged to hear stories from their past, stories of how they came to America or how their parents or grandparents immigrated to this land.By Tom and Karen BrennerWe work with people of many and varied ethnic groups, religions and cultures andas a result their stories of immigration vary greatly.There are, however,a few themes that are common to all of the elders telling us these stories.They all, every one of them, made a life here and contributed enormously to their new home - America.Topic -Coping with Alzheimer'sSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading R...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - August 18, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care alzheimer's caregiving care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home dementia care help alzheimer's how memory care facility nursing home tips Source Type: blogs
MOCAcare Review: Heart Monitor in Your Pocket and Blood Pressure Cuff on Your Wrist
The essence of digital health is making patients the point of care – no matter how unexpected the method. Could you ever imagine that there will be a time when you could measure your heart rate with a device slipped into your key chain holder or your blood pressure on your wrist? MOCAcare does both of that. Moreover, it provides its measurements in good quality and gives meaningful information even for laypeople.
The heart of the matter
MOCAcare’s tagline can be familiar as the title of a famous Graham Greene book about the destructive power of pity, but also as a song by Pete Doherty’s former band, The Libertines. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers future gc3 Health 2.0 heart heart health heart rate Innovation Personalized medicine review wearable wearables Source Type: blogs
Going After Your Past – The Big National Geographic Ancestry Test Review
Have you ever wondered to which people your ancestors belonged thousands of years ago? Or how your ancestors ended up living in the region where you were born? Did you know that your genes can reveal this information? The National Geographic Ancestry Test promises to take you on a journey into your faraway past and to be part of the Genographic Project aiming to uncover one of the greatest stories of humanity – our origins. I was excited to see what my genes hide so I ordered a test with full of curiosity. Here are my results.
Where do we come from?
Have you ever wondered where would you find your ancestors if you ha...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics ancestry clinicla genetics DNA future gc3 genes Innovation national geographic personal genomics personalized genetics Source Type: blogs
OnkoNetwork Drastically Reduces Pre-Treatment Waiting Time For Oncology Patients
Since the introduction of a special software and optimization of patient management practices in November 2015, in the Hungarian county of Kaposvár the average time from the discovery of a cancerous disease until the actual medical consultation about the treatment plan has been reduced drastically from 54 to 21 days. Those 33 days could mean the difference between life and death. Sometimes you do not need pricey or hyper-high-tech solutions for making a difference in healthcare. Sometimes it is enough if you respond to patients’ needs by optimizing processes. Let’s see how OnkoNetwork, the first Hungarian patient mana...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 23, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design gc4 Source Type: blogs
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future.
Artificial Intelligence has to and will redesign healthcare
No one doubts that artificial intelligence has unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. Although many have their fears and doubts about AI taking over the world, Stephen Hawking even said that the development of full ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Healthcare Design AI big data digital health drug development GC1 genetics healthcare companies Innovation medical imaging Personalized medicine pharma Source Type: blogs
How To Stop Being A People Pleaser
I doubt very much you have ever heard of Peter Gogolak. He’s hardly a household name, even in his own household.
But maybe he should be because he did something rather remarkable.
Gogolak was born in Hungary in 1942 and moved to the United States with his parents at the age of 14 after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
Although he went on to play for the New York Giants for the majority of his football career he was originally drafted as a kicker by the Buffalo Bills in 1964.
Back in the sixties place kickers used to adopt a rather different style to the ones playing today.
They would stand directly behind where the ba...
Source: A Daring Adventure - January 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Response to Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan of George Mason University posted some comments I sent him along with some questions about a recent blog post of his. His questions are in quotes, my responses follow. First, some background.
It’s important to separate immigration (permanent) from migration (temporary). Much of what we think of as “immigration” is actually migration as many of them return home. Dudley Baines (page 35) summarizes some estimates of return migration from America’s past.
Country/Region of Origin Return Rates
Nordics 20%
English & Welsh ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 3, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
