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May 21, 2004
BMJ: what the educators are saying
The latest BMJ runs the What the Educators are saying column. Of particular interest are references to articles on:
1. links between unprofessional behaviour as a medical student and later disciplinary problems. Free full text here
2. students attitudes to portfolio based assessment in a UK medical school
3. use of OSCEs as an admissions tool
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BMJ: Medical students with science A levels less likely to drop
out A news item in the latest BMJ reports that medical students with science A levels less likely to drop out. The article on which the news item is based is:
Medical Education
Volume 38 (5): 492 May 2004
Factors affecting the probability of first year medical student dropout in the UK: a logistic analysis for the intake cohorts of 198092
Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor & Jeremy Smith
and can be found here
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May 20, 2004
Current consultations
In a useful post to the LTSN01 Jiscmail list Megan QuentinBaxter lists some consultations currently open for comment.
A list is to go up on the LTSN01 website , she says.
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New article on PDA's
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries (ISSN: 1542406
2004 1(2): 6978
Stoddard, Mari J
Practical Ways to Get Started with PDA's
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May 14, 2004
BMJ theme issue
This week's BMJ is a themed issue on electronic communication and health care.
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May 12, 2004
Leicester PDA project: final report
The final report of the NHS Libraries, Leicester PDA project, Knowledge in the palm of your hands; PDA's in the clinical setting is now available
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May 07, 2004
BMJ picks up Wellcome report
The latest BMJ picks up the Wellcome report on online journals, but also quotes
Sally Morris of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers , who describes it as "nonsense"/
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7448/1094d
And the THES also runs a page on the issue, with views form Mark Walport of the Wellcome (for open access) and Arie Jongejan of Elsevier (against). Online content is only available to subscribers, but the paper reference is:
Times Higher Education Supplement
May 7 2004 1639: 8 Publishers resist revolution
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May 04, 2004
Post Brandon Hill
An interesting discussion is developing on the Medlib L list on the future of collection development lists. The BrandonHill list has been for many years the US standard, while here in the UK we have the Medical Information Working Party list. But now BrandonHill is to be discontinued (MIWP announced a new edition for 2003 but it has yet to appear).
The most interesting part of the discussion seems to me to be how we might move to more evidencebased collection development.
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May 02, 2004
New Wellcome report: Online science journals 30 pc cheaper
Today's Observer reports on a new report from the Wellcome, a follow up to last year's Economic analysis of scientific research publishing The Observer | Business | Wellcome: 'Online science journals 30 pc cheaper'
The report can be found here
The accompanying press release says that they want to submit it to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications, though I fear they have missed the bus. Evidence had to be submitted back in February,
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