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MANUSCRIPT: Learning to collaborate: a case study of performance improvement CME [2008]

INTRODUCTION: Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) is a mechanism for joining quality improvement (QI) in health care to continuing medical education (CME) systems together. Although QI practices and CME approaches have been recognized for years, what emerges from their integration is largely unfamiliar, because it requires the collaboration of

ABSTRACT: Collaborative online learning: a new approach to distance CME [2002]

OBJECTIVE: Continuing medical education (CME) has not taken advantage of the ability to communicate and collaborate online. Collaborative learning is an important learning principle, yet online CME programs are generally completed in a one-on-one relationship between the computer and the learner. This limits opportunities for reflective learning, and does not access

MANUSCRIPT: “Best Practice” Skills Lab Training vs. a “see one, do one” Approach in Undergraduate Medical Education: An RCT on Students’ Long-Term Ability to Perform Procedural Clinical Skills.

BACKGROUND: Benefits of skills lab training are widely accepted, but there is sparse research on its long-term effectiveness. We therefore conducted a prospective, randomised controlled-trial to investigate whether in a simulated setting students trained according to a "best practice" model (BPSL) perform two skills of different complexity (nasogastral tube insertion, NGT;

RESOURCE: How To Get More Out Of Your PLN Using Twitter

So, you’ve made a Twitter account and are completely hooked. You’re following a bunch of people, companies, institutions… and if you walk away from Twitter for more than an hour, it seems like you can’t possibly keep up. While the constant stream of information is incredible, it is also overwhelming.

RESOURCE: List of EdTech Events Across the Globe Educators Must Know About

Educational Technologies are trending all over the world. EdTech enthusiasts are trying to find as many as possible technological approaches that help the education system to grow and improve. For all such educators, administrators, students and parents, we bring some of the best EdTech events around the world, that are

ABSTRACT: A Randomized Trial of Two e-Learning Strategies for Teaching Substance Abuse Management Skills to Physicians

PURPOSE:To compare the educational effectiveness of two virtual patient VP-based e-learning strategies, versus no training, in improving physicians substance abuse management knowledge, attitudes, self-reported behaviors, and decision making.METHOD:The 2011-2012 study was a posttest-only, three-arm, randomized controlled trial in 90 resident and 30 faculty physicians from five adult medicine primary care