Saturday, August 11, 2007
Procedure Videos: Venipuncture
Preparation for Venipuncture
Performing Venipuncture
Uploaded by Slyswami.
Related:
Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation. NEJM Video in Clinical Medicine, 11/2008.
Bevel Dow. Musings of a Dinosaur.
Why I Do Blood Draws. Musings of a Dinosaur.
Updated: 06/022/2009
Friday, August 10, 2007
CNN: 5 Operations You Don't Want to Get
On the CNN list:
1. Hysterectomy
2. Episiotomy
3. Angioplasty
4. Heartburn (GERD) surgery
5. Lower-back surgery
References:
5 operations you don't want to get -- and what to do instead. CNN, 07/2007.
1. Hysterectomy
2. Episiotomy
3. Angioplasty
4. Heartburn (GERD) surgery
5. Lower-back surgery
References:
5 operations you don't want to get -- and what to do instead. CNN, 07/2007.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
6 Tips on Staying Up-to-Date in Genetics (and Any Specialty)
Bertalan Meskó of ScienceRoll.com shares 6 tips on staying up-to-date in genetics but they apply to most specialties in medicine and science.The 6 tips are:
1. Follow the most reliable genetic sites
2. Follow the best genetic blogs
3. Use RSS web feed and follow the genetic journals
4. Use services/tools like UpToDate
5. Follow the blog carnivals
6. Follow the genetic wikis
I would add a few more suggestions:
1. Subscribe to Google News alerts in your field of interest via web feeds.
2. Subscribe to podcasts in your specialty. See our IAMSE abstract on the topic.
3. Use text-to-speech to listen to journal articles. See our IAMSE abstract on the topic.
4. Create an iGoogle page as your own "super journal" powered by web feeds. See our IAMSE abstract on the topic.
5. Search YouTube, VideoJug for related videos.
6. Listen to conferences podcasts/videocasts.
7. Start a blog as an educational portfolio to record your thoughts.
8. Use Google Bookmarks to save interesting articles you find online.
References:
7 Tips: How to be up-to-date in genetics/genomics? ScienceRoll, 2007.
Interesting Ideas from 11th Annual Meeting of IAMSE. Clinical Cases and Images - Blog, 2007.
Using a Blog to Build an Educational Portfolio. Clinical Cases and Images - Blog, 2007.
15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning. LifeHack.org, 07/2007.
Video presentations: Novel concepts and easy-to-use web tools for researchers. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 2006.
"Change of Shift" Blog Carnival - Nursing Grand Rounds
The latest edition of Change of Shift: A Nursing Blog Carnival is up.The carnival is "a place for nurses and other members of the health care team, including students and patients to send their nurse related stories and ideas."
Image source: Emergiblog
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A Web 2.0 Review in the Medical Journal of Australia Mentions This Web Site
David Rothman links to a comprehensive review of the use of different Web 2.0 tools in medicine in the Medical Journal of Australia: The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?
In the section about blogs, the authors mention this web site along with Dean Guistini’s UBC Academic Search — Google Scholar Blog, David's blog, and ScienceRoll.
The article provides a good overview of most of the basics of what I call the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style:
Unfortunately, the review failed to mention AskDrWiki which is, in my opinion at least, one of the best medical wikis providing high-quality and unique content. AskDrWiki features more than 140 coronary angiogram videos from the number one heart center in America for 13 years in a row -- Cleveland Clinic.
Such omissions can be fixed in the future by using an approach similar to the newly-launched Google News comments -- if you are included in a news story and you want to clarify a point, comments can be added directly to the news report.
My presentation on Web 2.0 in Medicine from December 2006.
References:
The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution? Rick McLean, Brian H Richards and Janet I Wardman. MJA 2007; 187 (3): 174-177.
MedLib Blogs (including this one) in the Medical Journal of Australia. DavidRothman.net, 08/08/2007.
Google News Adds (Special) Comments. Google Blogoscoped, 08/08/2007.
In the section about blogs, the authors mention this web site along with Dean Guistini’s UBC Academic Search — Google Scholar Blog, David's blog, and ScienceRoll.
The article provides a good overview of most of the basics of what I call the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style:
Unfortunately, the review failed to mention AskDrWiki which is, in my opinion at least, one of the best medical wikis providing high-quality and unique content. AskDrWiki features more than 140 coronary angiogram videos from the number one heart center in America for 13 years in a row -- Cleveland Clinic.
Such omissions can be fixed in the future by using an approach similar to the newly-launched Google News comments -- if you are included in a news story and you want to clarify a point, comments can be added directly to the news report.
My presentation on Web 2.0 in Medicine from December 2006.
References:
The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution? Rick McLean, Brian H Richards and Janet I Wardman. MJA 2007; 187 (3): 174-177.
MedLib Blogs (including this one) in the Medical Journal of Australia. DavidRothman.net, 08/08/2007.
Google News Adds (Special) Comments. Google Blogoscoped, 08/08/2007.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Baby Einstein DVDs May Slow Language Development? Also, Please Cite Your Sources
A new study showed that for every hour per day spent watching educational DVDs like Baby Einstein, infants understood 6-8 fewer words than those who did not watch them. Children with larger vocabularies had parents who read to them or told them stories.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against watching television by children under 24 months.
There are at least 31 news reports on the story found on Google News but none of them links to the original source -- supposedly, an article in the Journal of Pediatrics. I checked the online version of the journal twice but I was still not able to find the study in question. After performing a PubMed search, it became clear the study was actually published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine and not in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Linking to the original source of the story should be one of the gold standards of the web journalism and it was obviously not done in this case.
References:
DVDs Don't Produce Brainy Babies. U.S. News & World Report.
Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All. Time.
'Baby Einstein' Videos Ineffective, Study Finds. NPR (audio).
Audio: Study hits at the heart of Baby Einstein. MarketWatch.com.
Study: Babies Raised By Videos Approximately As Dumb As Expected. Gawker.com.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against watching television by children under 24 months.
There are at least 31 news reports on the story found on Google News but none of them links to the original source -- supposedly, an article in the Journal of Pediatrics. I checked the online version of the journal twice but I was still not able to find the study in question. After performing a PubMed search, it became clear the study was actually published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine and not in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Linking to the original source of the story should be one of the gold standards of the web journalism and it was obviously not done in this case.
References:
DVDs Don't Produce Brainy Babies. U.S. News & World Report.
Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All. Time.
'Baby Einstein' Videos Ineffective, Study Finds. NPR (audio).
Audio: Study hits at the heart of Baby Einstein. MarketWatch.com.
Study: Babies Raised By Videos Approximately As Dumb As Expected. Gawker.com.
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