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The Wisdom of Crowd Review
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Almost immediately after finishing ‘Time to publish then filter?’ – a post that highlighted a recent editorial in the BMJ outlining the need for an effective system of post-publication peer review — I came across this in the Annals of Emergency Medicine: Millard WB. The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review [...]
Medical Education and Research
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Technophobic and filled with mistrust relating to the Internet,physicians are stumbling awkwardly into the technological era. Like the patient suffering with Anton’s syndrome we robustly stride forward into this brave new world with ‘impervious denial’ emblazoned on our lofty banners. It is about time we shed these shackles, joined forces and embraced technological advancement…Vive la révolution
Web 2.0 for Emergency Physicians
July 7, 2009 By 3 Comments
Many Emergency Physicians are unfamiliar with the concept of Web 2.0, the diversity of Web 2.0 resources, and how to use these resources to enhance their clinical practice and professional development.
How and Why Junior Docs use Web 2.0
July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
@DrShock has highlighted a recent paper looking at how and why junior physicians use Web 2.0 tools and resources in an interesting blog post – it is well worth a read (find it here). The paper of concern is: Hughes, B., Joshi, I., Lemonde, H., & Wareham, J. (2009). Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 [...]
Podcasts for EM and CC
July 3, 2009 By 5 Comments
This post is all about podcasts, and features those relevant to emergency medicine and critical care. If you want find a free podcast, do a keyword search of LITFL’s podcast database and Joe Lex’s free emergency medicine talks.
Education 2.0: Mel Herbert speaks
July 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I recommend this interesting talk by the entertaining and enlightening entrepreneurial emergentology edu-ma-cator Mel Herbert (@melherbert): Online Education 2.0 The talk is from Mel’s Emergency Medicine Core Content educational series. Mel talks about his mission in life – excellence in emergency medicine education – and the use of 2.0 technologies in learning.
Medical Search for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the physician
Social Bookmarking for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Up till now you have been satisfied with the bookmarking feature of your browser (ctrl + d), the static nature of its confines and the unwieldy nature therein. I beg you to contemplate expanding your collating framework and endure the malleable mind of a pragmatist.
There are an exponentially increasing number of ways to follow, tag, talk, poke, nudge and communicate with a person in the virtual world. My favorite visuospatial demonstration is the Conversation Prism by Brian Solis. The expanded flickr image gives a great representation of the articulation of social media facets in 2D mapping
Medical twitter
June 10, 2009 By 4 Comments
BMJ Careers have published an easy to follow demystification of twitter for doctors written by Alexander Young and Jonathan Bloor. It is well worth reading. Twitter is a growing and hugely popular website and is an ideal medium for disseminating information to users quickly. Although it is primarily a social networking site, it has been [...]
