“Why Do You Tweet, Anyway?” A Glance Into Medical Education Tweeting
By: Alireza Jalali, MD (@ARJalali), teaching chair, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Andrew Micieli, MMI (@medstudent_blog), medical student, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Jason R. Frank, MD (@drjfrank), director of specialty education, strategy, and standards, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
A common question asked of many medical educators seen tweeting in the wild is “Why do you tweet?” There are a few main reasons why Twitter is such a popular tool among medical educators, including: advocacy, teaching, immersion, and professional networking.
For a physician, Twitter...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 11, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective #MedEd medical educators social media Twitter Source Type: blogs
"Another Look at the Legal and Ethical Consequences of Pharmacological Memory Dampening: The Case of Sexual Assault"
Recently posted to SSRN (and published in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics): "Another Look at the Legal and Ethical Consequences of Pharmacological Memory Dampening: The Case of Sexual Assault" JENNIFER A. CHANDLER, University of Ottawa - Common Law... (Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog)
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - March 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs
Postdoc: Fungal Comparative and Population Genomics
The Corradi Lab is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of Fungal Comparative and Population Genomics. The research will be led by Dr. Nicolas Corradi and carried out in a CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) – affiliated laboratory located in the Department of Biology of the University of Ottawa, Canada.
The position will be initially funded for one year, with the possibility of renewal for up to three years depending on performance. The candidate is expected to contribute to several ongoing projects that focus on the population genomics of two evolutionary unrelated groups of fungi:...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - February 28, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc AMF comparative genomics microsporidia population genomics Source Type: blogs
Media release: Travel-acquired infections and illnesses in Canadians: surveillance report
This study, then, provides information that until now we have had to infer from travel-acquired illness in other groups.
The study uncovered a number of surprises for travelling Canadians and Canadian immigrants. For example, travel to visit friends and relatives carries a particularly high risk of illness. Serious diseases, like malaria, malaria or enteric fever, are in fact common imported illnesses. And diseases significant to public health, like hepatitis B and tuberculosis, are common as well among returning travellers.
“In order to maximize opportunities for prevention of these types of potentially serious infectio...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - February 11, 2014 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Carlyn Zwarenstein Source Type: blogs
Patient Modesty: Volume 60
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - November 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Does anemia impact hospital readmission rates after CABG surgery?
Nadine Shehata and colleagues studied this question in a recently published article (abstract) in the August 2013 issue of Transfusion. This is a single-institution study of 2,102 patients who underwent CABG surgery at the University of Ottawa Hospital. 224 of... (Source: The Daily Sign-Out)
Source: The Daily Sign-Out - November 9, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Mark D. Pool, M.D. Tags: Blood Banking Blood Management Blood Utilization Source Type: blogs
Who edits books for Apple Academic Press
More poking around in the Apple Academic Press 2011-12 catalog, now focusing on the editors. Consider Harold
H. Trimm. He's Chair of the Chemistry Dept. at Broome Community
College and an adjunct at Binghamton College SUNY, and although Google
Scholar finds that he hasn't published a paper since 1986, Amazon lists 9
collections of articles edited by him, all published in 2011 by Apple
Academic Press! Even better is A. K. Haghi, who has edited 106 scholarly books for Apple Academic Press in the past few years.
Browsing the editors of Apple Academic Press books, a surprising number of them are, like H...
Source: RRResearch - August 10, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Rosie Redfield Source Type: blogs
do you have lymphedema?
Do live in the Ottawa area? Do you have secondary lymphedema (as a result of any kind of cancer)?University of Ottawa professor Roanne Thomas and her team are is running a pilot of a study and are looking for participants:I've lived with truncal lymphedema since my mastectomy in 2006. Very little has been written on this subject and the advice I've found online or been given in workshops all has to do with arm lymphedema. My arm is fine but my chest and back can become very uncomfortable, to the point that it can be outright painful to wear a prosthesis. And the measures you take to prevent lymphedema in the arm can make t...
Source: Not just about cancer - April 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: complementary treatment breast cancer community cancer blog lymphedema Source Type: blogs
lingering use of BMI to measure obesity
The Wall Street Journal (1/12) reported that some scientists disagree with last week’s report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the University of Ottawa that used Body Mass Index to measure their likelihood of dying. Researchers refute using BMI as the typical way to define obesity, claiming that it averages together too many factors instead of focusing on unhealthy abdominal fat. Researchers also point to how many are misclassified as overweight by the BMI index. Comment: while I agree with these comments the problem is one of having a case definition that ...
Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - January 19, 2013 Category: Epidemiologists Authors: cbuttery Tags: behavioral change Chronic Disease Community Health epidemiology policy Prevention Translational Research Source Type: blogs
