Medical Education
Twitter-based Learning for Continuing Medical Education? A New Perspective for a Paradigm Shift in Medical Education, Accelerated by COVID-19
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:28h | UTCRelated: How Twitter is Changing Medical Research (texts on the subject)
Podcast: How to Create an Online Curriculum for Medical Education
3 Apr, 2020 | 03:55h | UTCSee also: Episode List
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—28 February 2020
1 Mar, 2020 | 19:38h | UTCAlex Nowbar’s journal reviews, 28 February 2020 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Related Commentary on Twitter
Turns out there is news that isn’t covid-19! New HIV approach, stuff about plasma exchange in ANCA vasculitis and the polygenic score drama Alex Nowbar's journal reviews—28 February 2020 – https://t.co/tkqiPMny5u
— Alex Nowbar (@AlexNowbar) February 29, 2020
Opinion: The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education
28 Feb, 2020 | 08:30h | UTCThe Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Author Interview: The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education (free audio)
Study: Textbooks Used to Train Physicians Lack of Conflict of Interest Transparency
24 Jan, 2020 | 08:13h | UTCTextbooks Used to Train Physicians Lack of Conflict of Interest Transparency – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Original Study: A Quantitative and Narrative Evaluation of Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics – Pharmacy (free)
Related: Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments (free commentary) AND Study: Undisclosed Financial Ties Between Guideline Writers and Pharmaceutical Companies (several resources on the subject)
Randomized Trial: Effect of Teaching Bayesian Methods Using Learning by Concept vs Learning by Example on Medical Students’ Ability to Estimate Probability of a Diagnosis
6 Jan, 2020 | 23:15h | UTCInvited Commentary: The Pursuit of Diagnostic Excellence – JAMA Network Open (free)
See also: Concept Teaching Video (free)
Educational Review – Chest Imaging Using Signs, Symbols, and Naturalistic Images: A Practical Guide for Radiologists and Non-radiologists
6 Dec, 2019 | 08:42h | UTC
150 years of Nature – A Century and a Half of Research and Discovery
7 Nov, 2019 | 08:08h | UTC150 years of Nature – A Century and a Half of Research and Discovery (free resources)
Video (interesting): A network of science: 150 years of Nature papers (free)
Systematic Review: Evaluation of E-learning for Medical Education in Low- and Middle-income Countries
15 Oct, 2019 | 10:13h | UTC
Perspective: Medical Education—The Tyranny of Guidelines and the Single Best Answer
8 Oct, 2019 | 09:29h | UTCLiyang Pan: Medical education—the tyranny of guidelines and the single best answer – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Continuing Medical Education – Why and How?
30 Sep, 2019 | 00:08h | UTC
2019 Ig Nobels Award Study That Found Surgeons Are Trained Better When Treated Like Dogs
17 Sep, 2019 | 01:04h | UTCSee also: Training surgeons like dogs, icky money win 2019 Ig Nobels – Associated Press (free)
2018 Ig Nobel Awards: Ig Nobel Win for Kidney Stone Removing Roller-coaster (free commentaries)
Source: Training surgeons with clickers and warm scrotum studies win Ig Nobel awards – The BMJ ($)
“The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology.” (from About the Ig Nobel Prizes, in Improbable Research)
Perspective: Medical Education Needs to Stop Burning out Students — Now
30 Aug, 2019 | 08:46h | UTCMedical education needs to stop burning out students — now – STAT (free)
Related: Meta-analysis: The Global Prevalence of Anxiety Among Medical Students (free studies)
Meta-analysis: The Global Prevalence of Anxiety Among Medical Students
18 Aug, 2019 | 22:04h | UTCRelated: Medical student wellbeing – a consensus statement from Australia and New Zealand – BMC Medical Education (free) AND Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – JAMA (free)
Systematic Review: Resident Physicians are at Increased Risk for Dangerous Driving After Extended-duration Work Shifts
16 Aug, 2019 | 08:02h | UTCSource: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Observational Study: Reductions in Residency Work Hours Not Associated with Worse Outcomes for Patients or Declines in the Quality of Physician Training
16 Jul, 2019 | 09:48h | UTCCommentaries: Reduced work hours for trainee doctors not seen to compromise care – Reuters (free) AND Capping medical residency hours does not hamper new doctors’ quality of training – Harvard Medical School (free) AND Is an 80-Hour Workweek Enough to Train a Doctor? – Harvard Business Review (free)
Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Burnout in Medical and Surgical Residents
16 May, 2019 | 05:01h | UTCThe aggregate prevalence of burnout was 51.0% among residents. Subgroup analysis by specialty showed that radiology (77.16%), neurology (71.93%), and general surgery (58.39%) were the top three specialties with the highest prevalence of burnout.
Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education
22 Apr, 2019 | 22:29h | UTC
Study: First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Spend Only 13% of Their Time on Direct Patient Care
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:05h | UTCCommentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Perspective: Nutrition Education in Medical School, Residency Training, and Practice
24 Mar, 2019 | 20:51h | UTCNutrition Education in Medical School, Residency Training, and Practice – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Medical Student Mentoring Programs: Current Insights
17 Mar, 2019 | 18:28h | UTCMedical student mentoring programs: current insights – Advances in Medical Education and Practice (free)
Consensus Statement: Medical Student Wellbeing
11 Mar, 2019 | 11:57h | UTC
Sleep, Alertness and Patient Safety Outcomes under Flexible vs. Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules
8 Mar, 2019 | 06:18h | UTCPatient Safety Outcomes under Flexible and Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Related Study: Sleep and Alertness in a Duty-Hour Flexibility Trial in Internal Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Longer shifts do not create chronic sleep loss in first-year doctors or reduce safety for patients, study finds – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (free) AND Flexible Medical Resident Duty Hours Did Not Pose Risks To Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Study: Comparative Accuracy of Diagnosis by Collective Intelligence of Multiple Physicians vs Individual Physicians
4 Mar, 2019 | 00:18h | UTCEditorial: Collective Intelligence for Clinical Diagnosis—Are 2 (or 3) Heads Better Than 1? (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
The misdiagnosis rate of doctors is alarmingly high (>12 million/yr in the US).
Q: Can this be improved by collective human intelligence?
A: Somewhathttps://t.co/HTBUxiNdyb@hdx @JAMANetworkOpen by @ml_barnett @DrNundy @DBatesSafety @HarvardChanSPH @HarvardHPM @BrighamWomens pic.twitter.com/mTWSyoTjGq— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 1, 2019
Computer vs. Patient: Fighting for Residents’ Attention
15 Feb, 2019 | 01:20h | UTCComputer vs. patient: Fighting for residents’ attention – SCOPE (free)
Original Article: Characterizing electronic health record usage patterns of inpatient medicine residents using event log data – PLOS One (free)
Related: Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (free) AND Date Night with the EHR – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers – The New York Times Magazine (10 articles per month are free) AND To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free) AND “It is like texting at the dinner table”: a qualitative analysis of the impact of electronic health records on patient–physician interaction in hospitals – Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics (free) AND A Time-Motion Study of Primary Care Physicians’ Work in the Electronic Health Record Era – Family Medicine (free) AND Care-Centered Clinical Documentation in the Digital Environment: Solutions to Alleviate Burnout – National Academy of Medicine (free) AND Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm – JAMA (free)