Labels: Brian Malow, comedy, comic relief, science, science jokes, viruses
posted by Ann Celestine @ 12:09 PM
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Labels: clinical medicine, diagosis of disease, medical images, NEJM
posted by Ann Celestine @ 10:20 AM
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"When I began this project, I expected to demonstrate the greater integrity of nursing students versus students in other disciplines, but that has not turned out to be the case ..The finding that more than half of the nursing students, as well as approximately half of the graduate nursing students...self-reported one or more classroom cheating behaviors is discouraging. The fact that these proportions seem to be higher than those for non-nursing students is even more disturbing."So what can be done? The article concludes that in fact "Faculty have a major role in controlling cheating and promoting academic integrity." The reasons given are that students rise to faculty expectations so they need to role model academic integrity.
"I believe that we should develop a 'culture of integrity'. We need to instill in our students the importance of honesty and integrity and how that translates to ethical behavior in our nursing practice."Click on title to login to EBSCO CINAHL database to read the full text.
Labels: academic integrity, cheating on exams, culture of integrity, ethical behaviour, faculty role models, nursing education, plagarism
posted by Ann Celestine @ 9:07 AM
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Labels: executive election, SGA election, student government, UMHS-SK
posted by Ann Celestine @ 2:35 PM
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"Sweeping generalisations such as 'the medics are the clever geeks and the surgeons are the cool heroes’ may masquerade in jest but both health professionals and the media have a huge obligation to project a positive image of their own specialty rather than badmouthing others ... it is through an attitude of arrogance and disregard for others choices ... that a universal hierarchy of specialties has been allowed to persist... such a chain of command may eventually influence the priority level of various specialties within healthcare and thus impinge upon patient treatment."Click on the title to read the full article "Why does everyone love a brain surgeon?" by Priya Garg, 5th year medical student at Imperial College, London.
Labels: career choices, culture of healthcare, inter-specialty relations, media influence, medical education, medical specialties, professional rivalry, professionalism
posted by Ann Celestine @ 11:55 AM
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Labels: cool tools, educational tools, online software, software applications, Web 2.0
posted by Ann Celestine @ 11:27 AM
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"Across the globe, countries are working to redesign their primary care systems by investing in information technology, round-the-clock access, teamwork, integration, and quality improvement.""A Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11 Countries, 2009: Perspectives on Care, Costs, and Experiences" (November 5, 2009) Schoen C [et al] Health Affairs Web Exclusive.
Labels: Commonwealth Fund, health care costs, interactive statistics, primary care, statistics
posted by Ann Celestine @ 11:49 AM
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What else is new in information technology? A 'culture of innovation' is permeating education today and information technology is it 'up to their necks'!Labels: education, information technology, innovation, Macleans
posted by Ann Celestine @ 2:52 PM
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Labels: accreditation, Barbadoes, CAAM-HP, CANQATE, Caribbean, education conferences, medical education, tertiary education
posted by Ann Celestine @ 8:23 AM
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For our plugged-in, internet savvy, Gen Y's the question arises; when it comes to the bigger, deeper emotional issues are you going to seek therapy online or are you still going to prefer face-to-face therapy?"The purpose of this study was to compare differences in emotional self-disclosure between young adult Internet users who prefer face-to-face therapy to those who prefer Internet therapy. A convenience sample of 328 was recruited from Facebook to complete an online survey. A total of 263 preferred face-to-face therapy (F2FT) while 65 preferred Internet therapy (IT). Significant differences were found with the F2FT group willing to disclose emotions of depression, jealously, anxiety, and fear to a therapist more frequently than the IT group. The majority reported a preference for F2FT over IT." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]This study provides an important first step to determine the emotional self-disclosure differences and preferences in our young adult population. Given the high number of participants that reported a history of therapy, a need for psychiatric nurses to reach out with new ways to deliver therapy to better serve these clients, seems warranted.
Labels: communication, F2FT, face-to-face therapy, Generation Y, Internet therapy, internet users research, mental health nursing, psychiatric nursing, self-disclosure, young adults attitudes
posted by Ann Celestine @ 10:33 AM
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Labels: anatomical images, biomedical informatics, image database, medical images, MedPix, radiology, USUHS
posted by Ann Celestine @ 11:06 AM
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The Tropical Medicine Central Resource (TMCR) at USUHS, under whose umbrella the International Registry of Tropical Imaging (IRTI) was developed, serves as a worldwide archiving and retrieval source for imaging studies involved in the diagnosis of over 70 parasitic and infectious, neoplastic and miscellaneous diseases affecting over 2 billion people in the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe."Every effort will be made to correlate imaging examinations with whatever corresponding epidemiological, gross and microscopic pathological, and clinical information may be available for each case and each disease entity. In so doing, it may be possible to illustrate the commonalties and differences in imaging and disease patterns regarding tropical diseases of identical etiology seen in varying parts of the world. For example:
~ Why should schistosomiasis mansoni cause inflammatory fibroid polyps in the colon in Africa and Arabia but present a Crohn-like pattern of narrowing and mucosal effacement in the Western hemisphere?
~ Why should Chagas' disease cause myocarditis in virtually all patients in Central and South America, but cause, in addition, megaesophagus and megacolon almost exclusively in Brazilians?
~ Why are certain malignancies present in a great percentage of the population in certain African villages and countries, while being almost unknown in adjacent areas?
Labels: IRTI, TMCR, tropical disease research, tropical medicine, USUHS
posted by Ann Celestine @ 10:13 AM
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"RePORT provides additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results."More new features are expected in 2010.
Labels: medical research, NIH, RePORTER, research grants, study report
posted by Ann Celestine @ 9:45 AM
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Essential Nursing Resources
Labels: essential nursing resources 2009, ICIRN, nursing literature
posted by Ann Celestine @ 9:28 AM
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...facilitating communication between the Library and the Faculty, students, staff and community partners of the University of Medicine & Health Sciences (UMHS) & the International University of Nursing (IUON) ~ St. Kitts & Nevis WI ...
