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Medical educator is expanding week on week and we’re hoping to provide relevant content for all our international users. We’ve now topped over 70 countries using the service, with the top 4 countries using our service to search for medical student exam revision services being the UK, USA, India and Canada.
Check out the world map below, the darker the shade, the bigger the proportion of users from that country.
PMETB has commented on the state of postgraduate education at the RCP (Royal College of Physicians) conference on the 17th November 2008. The actions taken by MMC and the PMETB will have a direct effect on applicants to postgraduate training in the UK.
On their website PMETB refer to the new document as follows…
“Chapters focus on key policy and regulatory developments, topical issues such as leadership, training delivery, assessments and the standards and quality of training in the UK.”
Its been a difficult time for the gatekeepers of postgraduate education in England, with PMETB acknowledging the problems with MMC. Their publication is hefty, all 93 pages of it.
Medical Educator is hoping to get an interview a representative from PMETB with a view to the issues the prior problems have raised with medical students entering what PMETB has itself termed a “changing landscape”.
There’s a link to the PDF document here. PMETB’s website can be found here.
Nice to see the people at the NEJM continue to provide us with clinically relevant topics across all specialities: none more so than the complication of DVT in pregnant women.The review article (link here) highlights management and thromboprophylaxis in the NEJM. What is more interesting to my eyes is the actual planned investigation of suspected PE in patients who do not have a clinically proven DVT.
An interesting viewpoint for our British Readers can be found at the BTS guidelines in the management of pulmonary embolism here. Note how the issue of imaging in pregnancy is not exactly clear cut!
Nevertheless despite the use of a Well’s score, and ultrasound dopplers of the lower limbs, the jury is still out on the imaging modality of choice for pregnant women with suspected pulmonary embolism (i.e. CT Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) , Limited CTPA, Limited Nuclear Medicine Scanning, MRI). The risks from nuclear medicine imaging seem likely to be higher than CT given the added problems of a reduced sensitivity and specificity, whereas the use of MRI is limited in the UK by the relative paucity of units offering this as a service/ lack of scanning facilities in some smaller hospitals.
Even though a lead apron will protect the foetus there are still concerns from CT about maternal breast tissue in this situation.
In the absence of hard and fast rules, this is an area of medicine that continues to challenge clinicans on a dya to day basis.
Here at medical educator we are creating a resource that is useful for students revising for their medical student exams. One of the ways we can get this across in a format that is concise, visual and relevant is through video. For example -- the cannula insertion:
Medical Educator is continuously updating its content and its services.
In a direct response to a query from one of our members we thought we’d put a poll up about the classic ‘Honey and Mumford’ styles of learning: theorists, activists, reflectors and pragmatists. If you have no idea then that’s fair enough…
What they emphasised was the different styles of learning: there are a number of questionnaires you can do to see what sort of learner you are…
Imagine talking about a new finger-prick blood glucose monitor (BM monitor)
Theorists: these people are grounded primarily in theory, and learn best when dealing with specific and structured learning tasks which have defined quantifiable meanings. e.g. how does the blood glucose machine work?
Pragmatists: these people who like to experiment with things in a real situation:They would rather see the blood glucose machine in action for themselves rather discuss the validity of its results
Reflectors: they like to look at a situation from a number of different experiences and perspectives to generate opinions. They might watch other people using the blood glucose machine and draw heir own conclusions.
Activists are people who enjoy doing things and carrying them out, and then reviewing the consequences of their own actions. They are likely to say “Give me the blood glucose machine to try…”
Why not fill in our poll. Remember you can subscribe to our content at the main site here
Honey, P., Mumford, A. (1982): ‘Manual of Learning Styles’.
