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Forget Hollywood, or Bollywood for that matter, now there is EdTalksWood – featured on the hills above Wellington. Coming up on March 26th at Te Papa is a one-day “EDtalks Symposium – Leading Minds, Creating Futures”. This symposium features sixteen 20 minute presentations focusing on current trends in learning enabled...
Internet access – a basic right
In the news today from the BBC is the headline: Internet access a fundamental right?, leading with a report about a poll that reveals almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right. The survey – of more than 27,000 adults...
Visit to Hwa Chong Institution
Today I had the opportunity to visit the Hwa Chong Institution, one of Singapore’s five Future Schools. This was one of the pre-conference sessions arranged as part of the ICTLT conference that I am attending in Singapore. The five Future Schools are Singapore’s response to recognising that students will use even...
The Learning@School conference held in Rotorua is over for another year, and as I tended to things around my home today after the week away, I spent time reflecting on what a wonderful event it was. With over 1300 delegates, including a significant number of principals attending with groups of...
Leading Learning in a digital world
Final day of the Learning@School conference and I had the opportunity to lead a session in the unconference area on leading learning in the digital age. There was a small, but intensely interested group from both primary and secondary school backgrounds that gathered to consider what is required of those...
Today I presented CORE’s ten trends for 2010 to an audience of around 400 delegates at the Learning@School conference in Rotorua. The ten trends are a collection of themes and issues that have been identified by CORE staff as trends in education that we imagine will impact on the work...
Life in the Fast Lane
Consider a 49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is being treated for pneumonia on the ward for three days but getting worse. An ICU review is performed on the ward and the following ECG is obtained. Related posts:Cardiovascular Curveball #003 Cardiovascular Curveball #001 Quiz...
In 1903, William Osler spoke to the students of the University of Toronto and told them of 'The Master Word of Medicine': "Though a little one, the master-word looms large in meaning. It is the 'Open Sesame' to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's ...
UCEM's Demographically Impartial Public & Social Health Improvement Taskforce have released the first in a series of lunchboxes designed to raise awareness of the importance of gas masks in preventing a range of miasmatic diseases such as syphilis and shame. Related posts:UCEM’s PR Supervisor Promoted UCEM to Save the NHS UCEM Promises Communication...
Not everyone is so blessed by fortune as to have teachers as inventive and inspiring as the great Tim Koelmeyer. Such was his prescience, he foresaw the day when the equanimity of his students would be ravaged by smells from hell. Indeed, he took steps to protect us, his eager...
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five #004
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia. Question 1 What is Albers-Schonberg Disease? Reveal Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1446062456'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1446062456')) Albers-Schonberg Disease is a type of osteopetrosis – a rare congenital disorder in which the bones become extremely dense, hard,...
A 10 year-old boy with a history of enuresis was BIBA to the ED after a first episode generalized tonic-clonic convulsion. He seemed tired in the morning but still attended his inter-school sports competition.While getting ready to compete he collapsed and had a self-limiting seizure (5 minutes duration). ... He...
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Emphysema and Airflow Obstruction Associated with Impaired Left Ventricular Filling
Very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes cor pulmonale - elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and secondary reductions in left ventricular filling, stroke volume, and cardiac output.The authors of this NEJM study hypothesized that emphysema, as detected on computed tomography (CT), and airflow obstruction are inversely related to left ventricular...
Hypertension is a "neglected disease" "Although hypertension is relatively easy to prevent, simple to diagnose, and relatively inexpensive to treat, it remains the second leading cause of death among Americans," said David Fleming, who led the study committee that wrote the report for the US Institute of Medicine. Hypertension is...
Twitter addiction: Could you get by without Twitter?
From BBC:A popstar gave up on social networking after a dinner party at which she realised she spent more time updating Twitter than interacting with her companions.Online communities like Twitter, where people follow each other without being acquainted in real life, can be brutal: "If you're going to broadcast as...
Low vitamin D levels in children associated with higher plasma glucose and lower HDL
A retrospective record review of pediatric outpatients (age, 2-18 years) included simultaneous measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH] D) and fasting plasma glucose or 25(OH) D and a lipid panel.25(OH) D levels were inversely correlated with fasting plasma glucose levels. Lower 25(OH) D levels were also associated with lower serum high-density...
Vehicle Exhaust = Second-hand Smoke?
From the NYTimes:Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children and may cause new respiratory illnesses and heart problems in adults, even resulting in deaths.The meta-analysis included 700 peer-reviewed studies on varying aspects of motor vehicle emissions and health. It found “evidence of a causal relationship,” but not proof...
Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a health center via a shared spreadsheet
From Google Docs Blog: "It is difficult to keep track of which patients are in which rooms, how many patients are in the waiting room, and how far the doctors are falling behind with their patients for the day. If patients were late, canceled their appointments, or the waiting room was...