This is a map that you can edit so that we can find people interested in medical education all around the world!
Source: maps.google.co.uk
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Last week I asked surgical checklist study author, Atul Gawande, to join a twitter discussion on his paper, And despite being on holiday- he did!
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This blog post talks about some of the risks of being a health professional in online spaces using your real identity. What do you think?
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Margaret Chisolm, psychiatrist and educator, writes about why she is coming to #asme11 and thinks that social media and networks will be important in the future of medical education,
Source: wholepatients.wordpress.com
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This post tells us a lot about how doctors and others might perceive doctors posting online about clinical topics....
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Some thoughts I've had on how we might make technology work better for us when students are on placement.
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We set up the Med Ed Connect blog as a place to connect medical educators, and we've been using it to support our twitter #meded chats. I knew that the discussion on portfolios and competency would be controversial so I decided to try and get others to share their thoughts in advance. It worked. 25 people commented on this post- medical students and doctors in the UK and beyond. If you're curious about how the people using them understand portfolios, then read this!
Source: mededconnect.wordpress.com
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This wiki is a repository for ideas about medical education. Deidre Bonnycastle has been doing sterling work with this for many years/ Thank you!
Source: medicaleducation.wetpaint.com
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Much more interesting that my thoughts are the comments on this post. I also like this post because it shows how you can use Slideshare in a blog post to share words and images.
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- Post-script: Many of the points raised are mentioned in this recent commentary in Medical Education: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21208258
- I don't have time now but I want to write a blog post on this, so what is wrong with portfolios and reflection? @parkerflash @rodedun
- @welsh_gas_doc @parkerflash @amcunningham I got bollocked for my first ever reflective practice as it was basically too honest. apparently.
- @welsh_gas_doc @amcunningham A vast amount of misdirected time, effort and motivation.
- @parkerflash indeed @welsh_gas_doc; if u do join@amcunningham & get into #meded PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE initiate change on all the boxticking
- @welsh_gas_doc @amcunningham yet more hoop jumping - designed to learn how to get signed off, not to learn medicine.
- @amcunningham would like too hear what you find out about this all AHP have to do huge amounts of reflection med students get off lightly
- @amcunningham @parkerflash @rodedun oh holy Moses, come to Dundee for the 12 Learning outcomes & the process of "reflection" upon them... :O
- @amcunningham My issue is not with reflective practice or a portfolio to demonstrate skills.
- @amcunningham @parkerflash @rodedun High-volume reflection becomes shadow-boxing: we find what we need to say and say it. It's disingenuous.
- @LizzyFerret @amcunningham @parkerflash@rodedun Our preclinical reflective stuff is truly awful. More bull-shitty = higher marks.
- @amcunningham It's the way that the assessment of these elements have such dominance in the curriculum over the basics of medical practice.
- @fidouglas @amcunningham @parkerflash@rodedun Dundee LOVES reflection. I get why it's necessary but it ain't the be all & end all.
- @rodedun @amcunningham @parkerflash well said. In 1st year we had to write a reflective account of how I felt on 1st seeing a cadaver. #RAGE
- @amcunningham @parkerflash I resent the forced nature of our reflections, when by definition it is a is a personal thing, different for all!
- @LizzyFerret @amcunningham @parkerflashridic.Reflection is often subconscious,writing it out + submitting it doesn't make it more relevant!
- @rodedun @welsh_gas_doc @parkerflash@amcunningham I reflected and was threatened that if I continued I'd be kicked out!
- @amcunningham My main issue with med school assessment is that a sign off sheet or a tick box demonstrates virtually nothing abt the student
- @amcunningham e.g. On my crit care block I saw tons of pts, learnt and practiced lots of skills, and now feel confident with basic ABCs.
- @amcunningham yet on the end of block ILS course it was obvious some students hadn't been near a pt, let alone managed their airway.
- @amcunningham at the end of the course the med school can wave a tick sheet and say we are the same.
- @amcunningham Forced reflection is useless. It is done for the sake of it. It should be a personal thing. Not for inspection of a panel.
- @parkerflash @amcunningham Yes, and when I protested about this I was told 'We're just preparing you for assessments in your future career'!
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What do medical students and junior doctors get so annoyed about?- this is an example of a tool called storify which can be used to curate tweets. Storify embeds well on blogs.
Source: storify.com
