Looking forward to #asme11

Later this week I’ll be attending the AMSE annual scientific meeting in Edinburgh and running a workshop with Anne Marie Cunningham and Annalisa Manca on networks and social media in medical education.  Over on Med Ed Connect Anne Marie has invited individuals coming to the workshop to introduce themselves and say a little about themselves [...]

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Medicine for students as and when required!

Today saw the culmination of 4 months of hard work by about 10 of our 2nd year medical students with the launch of a new website DundeePRN Medicine for students as and when required.  I blogged back in September about blogging doctors and how a colleague in respiratory medicine had set up DundeeChest to support [...]

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The future of medical schools?

I came across this video, which presents a scenario for the future of Leicester Medical School via AJCann.  Medical students at Leicester worked on a 3 week SSC project in August 2009 that provided training on how to collaborate to prepare future scenarios, assess their plausibility, construct arguments about the future and present their ideas [...]

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President of RCS comments on medical education

An RSS feed from The Hospital Dr website caught my eye last night.  The feed detailed a feature interview with Mr John Black the President of the Royal College of Surgeons in England.  Mr Black was invited to answer a series of 12 questions.   You can read the full interview here.  Being involved in medical [...]

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Social Bookmarking – Making connections

My last post looked at Diigo and how this allowed you not just to bookmark sites like Delicious does, but also lets you highlight sections of a webpage and add sticky note annotations.  The other advantage it has over Delicious is that it allows you to create groups, these can be public or private and [...]

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