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November 25, 2005

GMC Essay Competition

The GMC is running an essay competition for medical students on the theme:
What will be expected of doctors in the future?
There's also one for sixth-formers

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November 14, 2005

PDAs in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Al-Ubaydli, Mohammad Paton, Chris
The Doctor’s PDA and Smartphone Handbook: Personal digital assistant
J R Soc Med 2005 98: 494-495

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November 10, 2005

Resources for Breaking Boundaries Parallel Session D. Mobile/wireless devices in medical education

Resources for Breaking Boundaries Parallel Session D. Mobile/wireless devices in medical education:

PDA resources on Tom Roper's CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/user/tomroper/tag/pdas

PubMed search for handhelds in medical education (("Computers, Handheld"[MeSH] OR "Cellular Phone"[MeSH]) AND "Education, Medical"[MeSH]):

BSMS http://www.bsms.ac.uk/news/newspages/06_05bsmsfirstpda.htm

RAMBLE project
http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Trafford, Paul Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue44/trafford/

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November 09, 2005

Breaking Boundaries

Breaking Boundaries 2005, organised by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine starts today in the Apex International in Grassmarket, Edinburgh.

There's blogged reports on Tom Roper's blog

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November 08, 2005

Why does training some doctors cost three times as much as others?

Why does training some doctors cost three times as much as others?: "

The funding of doctors' and nurses' training is in a mess, according to a report published today by the think tank, the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi). Taxpayers are forking out more than £2bn a year for medical students but it is not clear, says the report, where that money is going, and there are extraordinary variations in the amounts received by English medical and dental schools from the public purse.

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(Via Independent: Higher.)

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