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The event, Transforming Patient-Centered Research: Building Partnerships and Promising Models, will be a highly energized gathering of 150 patients and hea…

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Abstract Objective: To determine whether nurse practitioners can provide care at first point of contact equivalent to doctors in a primary care setting. Design: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials and prospective observational studies.

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Important best practices for healthcare marketers to apply when it comes to marketing their hospital through Twitter.

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Multimedia is a catch-all phrase for “alternatives to text.” As we discussed in previous chapters, the exclusive reliance on text – either printed or spoken – is often at the heart of health illiteracy.

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Social media is slowly becoming a viable tool for doctors but social media sites have to do a lot of work to ensure they offer doctors what they need and want…

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Available, intuitive and free! Building e-learning modules using web 2.0 services. Tam CW, Eastwood A. Source

The University of New South Wales , Australia.

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Background: E-learning is part of the mainstream in medical education and often provides the most efficient and effective means of engaging learners in a particular topic. However, translating design and content ideas into a useable product can be technically challenging, especially in the absence of information technology (IT) support. There is little published literature on the use of web 2.0 services to build e-learning activities. Aim: To describe the web 2.0 tools and solutions employed to build the GP Synergy evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal online course. Methods: We used and integrated a number of free web 2.0 services including: Prezi, a web-based presentation platform; YouTube, a video sharing service; Google Docs, a online document platform; Tiny.cc, a URL shortening service; and WordPress, a blogging platform. Results: The course consisting of five multimedia-rich, tutorial-like modules was built without IT specialist assistance or specialised software. The web 2.0 services used were free. The course can be accessed with a modern web browser. Conclusions: Modern web 2.0 services remove many of the technical barriers for creating and sharing content on the internet. When used synergistically, these services can be a flexible and low-cost platform for building e-learning activities. They were a pragmatic solution in our context.

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The application of wiki technology in medical education. Rasmussen A, Lewis M, White J. Source

University of Alberta , Canada.

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Background, aims and methods: Recent years have seen the introduction of web-based technologies such as the ‘wiki’, which is a webpage whose content can be edited in real time using a web browser. This article reviews the current state of knowledge about the use of wikis in education, and considers whether wiki technology has features that might prove useful in medical education. Results: Advantages and challenges of the technology are discussed, and recommendations for use are provided. We believe that wiki technology offers a number of potential benefits for administrators, students and instructors, including the ability to share information online, to construct knowledge together, to facilitate collaboration and to enable social learning and peer feedback. Conclusions: We believe that with proper planning and instructional design, wiki technology can be usefully employed in medical education. We intend to continue to study the impact of wiki technology in our own programme, and we encourage others to evaluate the application of wiki technology in other areas of medical education.

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