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Global Trends In Medical Education Technology
Mar 14, 2012
The journey of a teacher begins when he himself is a student, keeping these facts in mind we are organizing a National Workshop on “Global Trends in Medical Education Technology” “Live local,think global” this new slogan made the universe as global village.
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The March issue of Medical Teacher offers free access to a selection of papers highlighting current challenges in the assessment of competence in medicine
Mar 14, 2012
A feature of the March 2012 issue of Medical Teacher is a commentary and a series of articles on assessment of competence. Assessment of students and healthcare professionals is one of the most important challenges facing medical education today and was the subject of an International Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia attended by 1200 participants. These contributions to Medical Teacher highlight challenging ideas for the future of assessment and will be available as free downloads in the hope that they will help to stimulate discussion.
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The March issue of Medical Teacher offers free access to a selection of papers highlighting current challenges in the assessment of competence in medicine
Mar 14, 2012
A feature of the March 2012 issue of Medical Teacher is a commentary and a series of articles on assessment of competence. Assessment of students and healthcare professionals is one of the most important challenges facing medical education today and was the subject of an International Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia attended by 1200 participants. These contributions to Medical Teacher highlight challenging ideas for the future of assessment and will be available as free downloads in the hope that they will help to stimulate discussion.
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International team launch new journal
Mar 12, 2012
Faculty members at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have partnered with an international team of leading medical and healthcare practitioners, educators, and policy planners to launch the Journal of Local and Global Health Perspectives.
WCMC-Q Dietrich Büsselberg and Ravinder Mamtani, partnered with David Carpenter of the University at Albany, New York, and Albert Lowenfels of the New York Medical College, to form the Journal’s chief editorial panel.
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New blog for medical educators unveiled at the 15th Ottawa Conference
Mar 12, 2012
Unveiled at the 15th Ottawa Conference in Kuala Lumpur, "Conversations with Medical Education: a blog for medical educators" will provide a forum for medical educators to converse in near-real-time with the authors and readers of the articles in the journal, Medical
Education.
There is a post for each article in the latest issue. Feel free to comment about any related topic and start some interesting online discussions!
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International team launch new journal
Mar 12, 2012
Faculty members at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have partnered with an international team of leading medical and healthcare practitioners, educators, and policy planners to launch the Journal of Local and Global Health Perspectives.
WCMC-Q Dietrich Büsselberg and Ravinder Mamtani, partnered with David Carpenter of the University at Albany, New York, and Albert Lowenfels of the New York Medical College, to form the Journal’s chief editorial panel.
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Study presents new methodology for testing examiner bias where examiners are required to mark over multiple dimensions
Mar 10, 2012
In medical education settings, among others, assessment scenarios can arise where an examiner with prior knowledge of examinee performance in one dimension is required to rate the same examinee(s) over a different dimension. Concerns ought to arise in these settings concerning examiner bias and as a means of enhancing assessment quality, these concerns ought to be addressed by a statistical test for such bias which suits the assessment design.
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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada offer free samples of several CanMEDS Publications
Mar 09, 2012
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada are offering free samples of the below publications. Many of the samples include the table of contents.
CanMEDS Educational Design The CanMEDS Educational Design manual provides the basic theory and essential concepts for medical educators to create and redesign curricula.
The Research Guide The Research Guide is a step-by-step guide for novice researchers and their supervisors. The guide can be used as a stand-alone or modular curriculum.
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