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November 30, 2004
Screening Internet websites for educational potential in undergraduate medical education
Burd A, Chiu T, McNaught C Screening Internet websites for educational potential in undergraduate medical education Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine 2004 29(3):185-197 DOI: 10.1080/14639230400005982Posted by Suzanne at 06:58 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Medical Education: new issue
The new issue of Medical Education is available.
One article of particular interest:
Mathers J, Parry J, Lewis S, Greenfield S
What impact will an increased number of teaching general practices have on patients, doctors and medical students?
Medical Education 2004 38(12): 1219-1228
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November 23, 2004
Special PDA issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT)
The latest issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT) is now available
on the UKHiS website and is a themed issue on handheld computers in healthcare.
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November 21, 2004
JISC study on PDAs and other mobile devices
A JISC report on Mobile and PDA technologies and their future use in education
They conclude:
"Students and staff are increasingly likely to be in possession of at least one mobile device and in the near future all these types of increasingly powerful computing devices will be capable of seamlessly connecting to the Internet through a variety of local and metropolitan wireless networks and a range of third generation cellular networks. These devices will effectively be ‘always on’ the network. This development presents education with a number of opportunities to enhance learning, administration and research, but also presents new challenges for the management and support of university infrastructure.
In addition, the markets and technologies associated with these devices are changing rapidly. If the different device types currently on the market converge on a single type then the difficulties associated with a lack of homogeneity will be minimised. If this does not happen then institutions will be presented with difficult decisions concerning the integration of their existing systems with a wide range of smartphones, PDAs and mediaplaying devices. At the same time there will be pedagogy issues and concerns over security and privacy of information. All these opportunities and challenges will need further work. To date, most work on the use of such devices in UK education has been undertaken in the schools sector, but increasingly, higher and further education will need to take up the baton. "
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November 05, 2004
Human rights in medical education
A letter in this week's BMJ argues that medical education should include human rights.
Bygrave H
Medical education should include human rights component
BMJ 2004;329:1103
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