Friday, January 29, 2010

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  • VuMedi is a surgeon-only video sharing website where you can view, upload, and discuss surgical videos.
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  • EchoJournal: an echocardiography video sharing community.
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  • LearnersTV.com: A comprehensive site providing free video lectures, Animations, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures, ebook download links etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine etc… This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world.
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  • Sciencentral: It produces news videos on science research every week, which appears on American local TV news, and the web site. Here is the Youtube feed.
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  • Medi-Vision: The Medi-Vision™ Film Series aims to teach good clinical practice through expert case demonstrations on film; second to patient-side experience, we think this is the best way to become a better doctor. We keep the focus of our DVDs on observation, interaction and assessment skills and especially on history-taking, physical signs and the appropriate use of tests.
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  • Easy Medicine Videos: An online portal containing tenth of thousands of videos in all fields of medicine which are collected for you from all the online sources of videos to make it easy for Doctors, Nurses, medical students and all other health care professionals to find their needs of medical and surgical videos.
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  • The Doctor’s Channel: a Web site that allows doctors to learn from each other at their convenience. The time-saving site includes short one- to two-minute streaming video clips designed to get to the point, with insights and opinions from experts in 35 different specialties, as well as community and lifestyle features that help doctors stay on top of the latest news, ideas and information.
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  • Meddio: Programs are designed for medical professionals, patients, caregivers, and people who are just plain interested in learning about the key medical topics affecting all of us. Medical professionals can earn free continuing education credits by viewing in-depth interviews with their colleagues while patients and caregivers can learn more about the specific areas that impact them through engaging video segments featuring medical experts and their patients.

  • DAVE Project: The DAVE Project, an acronym for the Digital Atlas of Video Education, is a collection of teaching tools.

  • Eyetube: Eyetube is a web site created by a panel of experts to better educate ophthalmologists through the online archiving and sharing of videos.

  • SurgyTec: easily find videos and slideshows relevant to your specialism and interest.

  • Veezyon: Veezyon offers knowledge-based content from trusted partners and research tools designed to enhance your learning experience. We partner with leading universities, scientific research, art and music institutions to provide you trusted content under four main categories.
Medical/Dental Web Site Clients
   
Company
Specialty
San Diego Smile Center
Cosmetic dentistry
American Acupuncture Fertility & sports injuries
AviaraDx
Molecular diagnostics
La Jolla Center for Facial Plastic Surgery Rhinoplasty & cosmetic surgery
The Ongley Institute Noninvasive back pain relief
Biomatrica DNA storage solutions
Direct Dental Staffing
Dental office personnel
R. I. Chemical Biotechnology materials
Clinical Staffing Services Travel nurse assignments
Life Sci Technologies Life science database software
Physicians for Fitness Men's health advice
Rasayan Biotechnologies Antisense compounds
Life Science Industry Council Medical device trade group
Stress Relief LLC Medical device for back pain
PharmaScouts Executive/scientist recruiters
Children's Memorial Hospital Fundraising site (Chicago)

Dental & Medical Websites

medical diagnostics website
AviaraDx Molecular Medicine
Informational website created for novel molecular diagnostic tests used by physicians to personalize cancer treatment.
Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomes
January 18, 2010

Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomesIn the knowledge-to-action cycle, after the intervention related to knowledge translation has been implemented, uptake of knowledge should be monitored. This step is necessary to determine how and to what extent the knowledge is used by the decision-makers. Seventh of a seven-part series. Full article
PART 6: Selecting educational interventions for knowledge translation
PART 5: Developing and selecting interventions for translating knowledge to action
PART 4: Adapting clinical practice guidelines and assessing barriers to their use
PART 3: The knowledge-to-action cycle: identifying the gaps
PART 2: Knowledge creation: synthesis, tools and products
PART 1: Defining knowledge translation

PRACTICE

D-lactic acidosis and ataxia in a man with Crohn disease
January 18, 2010

D-lactic acidosis and ataxia in a man with Crohn diseaseA 49-year-old man presented to the emergency department with an eight-hour history of unsteady gait, impaired concentration, difficulty speaking and blurry vision, which had developed over the previous seven hours. During the preceding two days, he had been excessively thirsty and drank large amounts of water, cola and a sports drink. Full article


Birth outcomes in the Inuit-inhabited areas of Canada
Zhong-Cheng Luo MD PhD, Sacha Senécal PhD, Fabienne Simonet MS, and colleagues
January 25, 2010

Birth outcomes in the Inuit-inhabited areas of CanadaComparing the Inuit-inhabited areas to the rest of Canada, risk ratios were 1.5 for preterm birth, 1.7 for stillbirth, and 3.6 for infant mortality. The risk ratios and risk differences did not diminish over time and substantial excess mortality was observed for all major causes of infant death. Full article
COMMENTARY: Focus Inuit research agenda on best outcomes
RESEARCH: Food insecurity among Inuit preschoolers