Category: academics
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Resistance is futile
It would seem that JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) is starting to take an interest in ehealth/health informatics topics. The current issue has several articles on use of computers in practice by physicians. I haven’t had a chance to read the articles yet, but are the titles about computers: Role of Computerized…
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Equity and eHealth
In yesterday’s class (Teaching in Higher Education), Dr. Rona Abramovitch lectured on the topic of discussion was “equity issues in teaching and the academy”. Without getting into too much detail, the overall point of the lecture was to create a more inclusive classroom by trying to accomodate different cultural, social, economic, religious, gender, racial,…. backgrounds.…
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Publication #1 – update
Ok, so it’s official. Here is the link to the article “What is eHealth (3): A systematic review of published definitions” (http://www.jmir.org/2005/1/e1/). Many thanks to my co-authors/friends/mentors (Carlos, Murray, and Alex). Okay – first one’s down, and now it’s time to focus on getting several others out there this year. It’s weird, but I thought…
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Planting seeds and making connections
Our “Monday morning discussion group” met yesterday. The plan was to discuss Ivan Illitch’s book, Medical Nemesis, but we ended-up discussing an opportunity that has opened up. One of our members is on the program committee for the eHealth2005 conference, and she asked about what services/events were geared toward students. Since there wasn’t anything officially…
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Grad student fun
I came across this funny comic site that’s about graduate student life. The artist writes in a Dilbert-like way that I find absolutely hilarious. It’s called “Piled higher and deeper” (www.phdcomics.com).
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The teaching portfolio
In yesterday’s class, Prof. Guy Allen gave a talk on how to prepare the teaching portfolio. The basic message that I got out of the talk was that you need to take care in preparing the document to communicate a particular message. He gave some helpful tips on what you should try to do: Use…
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Publication #1
Great news! My first article will be published later this month in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org). I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say any more at this time. I’ll post a link to the article once it’s officially released.
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Another teaching resource…
I came across another great online teaching resource called “facdev” (http://www.facultydevelopment.ca). It’s meant to be a resource for university faculty to upgrade their skills by participating in online learning units and reading about teaching.