Promoting Social Accountability Through Interprofessional Continuing Development

  The June 2008 supplement of the Journal of Interprofessional Care is a special issue entitled Promoting Social Accountability Through Interprofessional Continuing Development: An Experience of the Canadian Medical Schools. There are two articles in particular that might interest readers of this blog [subscription required]:
Fleet LJ, Kirby F, Cutler S, Dunikowski L, Nasmith L, Shaughnessy [...]

Safe Surgery Saves Lives: WHO Surgical Checklist

The World Health Organization has issued its report on its Global Patient Safety Challenge in surgery, which involves the use of a checklist before surgery. Yesterday’s Globe & Mail reported on the use of the checklist in the University Health Network in Toronto, which comprises three major hospitals.  In the video clip below, UHN’s surgeon-in-chief [...]

IOM Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute

The Institute of Medicine has formed a Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute.
An ad hoc IOM committee is undertaking a review of issues in continuing education of health care professionals (in particular physicians and nurses) that are identified from the literature and from data-gathering meetings with involved parties. Based on this [...]

Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education (CACHE) Web Site

Welcome to the latest version of the Web site of the Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education/Association canadienne d’éducation médicale continue (CACHE/ACEMC)!  This site has been around for a number of years, and was created by Fred Murray of Calgary, Alberta.  CACHE/ACEMC recently hired Dave Jackson, also of Calgary, who has mounted the site on [...]

Banished Words

 
Since 1976 the Lake Superior State University has issued its annual list of banished words. Here is their introduction for the 2008 offering:

Lake Superior State University “maverick” word-watchers, fresh from the holiday “staycation” but without an economic “bailout” even after a “desperate search,” have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from [...]

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences

    This is a a peer-reviewed, Open Access publication of Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. The July 2008 issue contains a number of articles of interest to medical educators:
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences July 2008; 24(7)
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Articles:

Neuroplasticity and Critical Thinking [editorial by Dr. Peter H. Harasym, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of [...]