December 24, 2003
Richard Smith on new medical schools and students
Thoughts for a new medical school Based on an address he gave at the launch of our sister school at Hull and York , the usually frivolous Christmas issue of the BMJ has this:
Thoughts for new medical students at a new medical school
Richard Smith
BMJ 2003;327:14301433
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1430
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NHS direct on digital TV
Interactive services to patients on interactive digital TV platform Saturday’s Financial Times reports that NHS Direct is to develop an interactive digital television application. I heard a presentation from someone hose name I fear I have forgotten at a CHILL meeting the year before last about this, I think. He was discussing a pilot version of this, which I thin had been made available in the West Midlands. The FT reports that it will offer the content of NHS Direct Online as well as the ability to book appointments with GPs and arrange repeat prescriptions.
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More on PDAs
Two articles in Library Hi Tech PDAs and health sciences libraries
Thomas A Peters; Josephine Dorsch; Lori Bell; Peg Burnette
2003 21(4): 400411
Supporting PDAs: the experience of a health sciences library
Julie A Garrison; Tiffany L Anderson; Marlyse H MacDonald;
Connie M Schardt; Patricia L Thibodeau
2003 21(4): 412418
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December 19, 2003
Diary of a (Peninsula) clinical academic (THES)
Diary of a clinical academic Still with the THES, this morning's edition also contains the diary of a cliniical academic from one of our sister new medical schools, Peninsula . Professor Rob Sneyd describes his week and how he balances research, teaching and his clinical workload. THES December 19/26 2003 1620:9 Electronic version available to subscribers only.
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Michael Fitzpatrick on the political uses of health in THES
The state and health
Again in the THES, Michael Fitzpatrick, an East London GP and contributor to the iconoclastic spiked website, discusses the state's involvement in health in recent decades and describes the success of NHS Direct as "a potent image of the new therapeutic relationship between government and people" . THES December 19/26 2003.
Electronic version available to subscribers only. It may also be on the spiked! website but isn't there at time of writing.
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December 18, 2003
Selfarchiving in THES
Today's THES reports on evidence by Steve Harnad to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee in which he calls for more support for selfarchiving. The Committee is considering access to journals within the scientific community and is taking written evidence until 12th February. And JISC is reported as taking action to develop the openaccess model. THES December 19/26 2003 1620:7 Electronic version available to subscribers only . And see the JISC press release and the Science & Technology Committee's press release at: http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitech111203a.cfm
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December 17, 2003
LTSN01 RSS news feeds
News and events on teaching and learning in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine The Learning and Teaching Support Network subject centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine offers news service as RSS feeds with news and announcements of events.
http://www.ltsn01.ac.uk/resources/news/news.rss
and
http://www.ltsn01.ac.uk/resources/events/events.rss
Or if you want plain html at:
http://www.ltsn01.ac.uk/resources/news/index_html
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Search PubMed automatically for what's new in medical education
Finds records added in the last thirty days Follow the link below and you will be taken to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed implementation of medline and to an automatically updated search for items on medical education added to the database in the past thirty days: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term="Education,+Medical"[MAJR]&orig_db=PubMed&filters=on&pmfilter_EDatLimit=30+Days
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December 12, 2003
New BMJ feature: what the educators are saying
Highlighting new and useful material from the medical education literature This week's BMJ announces a potentially very useful new feature, called What the educators are saying . "to highlight important and interesting publications from the medical education literature". Print reference is BMJ 2003, 325: 1393
The initiative is announced in an editorial: Wass, Val Monitoring the medical education revolution BMJ 2003, 325: 1362
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December 11, 2003
Articles on PDAs
PDAs in the literature Just come across references to two interesting looking articles on PDAs, thanks to John Hewlett's current literature column in CILIP's Health Libraries Group Newsletter
Li, J Free quality PDA software for physicians Journal of Electronic
Resources in Medical Libraries 2004; 1(1): 6988
Lovett, D G PDAs: exploring the role of the medical librarian Journal of
Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 2004; 1(1): 113118
This new journal, Journal of Electronic
Resources in Medical Libraries, has a rudimentary page at: http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JERML/
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December 05, 2003
BSMS in THES
BSMS in THES
BSMS in Who got that job in Times Higher Education Supplement Interesting to see in this morning’s THES a piece on a member of Brighton & Sussex Medical School staff, Susan Ayers. In the “Who got that job section”. It is a pity that they spell her name throughout as Ayres.
The electronic version is only available to subscribers but the paper reference is:
Times Higher Education Supplement 5 December 2003 1618:23