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Technology enhanced learning in emergency medicine
Get PDFEducation is integral to the practice and delivery of Emergency Medicine in the UK. The staffing structures, the complexity of the workload and the need to deliver a service 24-hours a day require a high-quality learning environment.
This thesis describes my work in using web-based technologies to enhance the learning experience of emergency medicine trainees and consultants. It describes three overlapping themes of innovation.
Theme 1 describes the development of the BestBets approach to evidence-based medicine in emergency care. The papers and websites presented describe how the principles of evidence-based medicine were adapted, developed and published to provide a practical and pragmatic approach suitable for the acute care environment.
Theme 2 describes how Virtual Learning Environments provided a solution to the challenges of teaching and learning with a chronologically and geographically distributed workforce.
Theme 3 describes how I have used the latest social media technologies to enhance learning on a global scale. It describes how local learning can be shared amongst a diverse range of learners using social media tools. This theme charts how my projects on the St. Emlyn’s platform have advocated for the Free Open Access Medical Education movement. It also describes how I have created a symbiotic relationship between modern and traditional publishing mechanisms to promote the academic outputs of local and international publishing collaborations.
In this thesis I describe the narrative of educational development alongside and in some cases in the mutual support of technological innovation. I reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of the learning narrative and also on the methodological approach to the analysis of the three main themes.
Central to my work is how I have developed my skills to now lead the social media projects for the St.Emlyn’s group and in the establishment of my recognition as a leader in the area of technologically enhanced emergency medical education
Are you a SCEPTIC? SoCial mEdia Precision and uTility in Conferences
Get PDFWe analysed Twitter feeds at an emergency medicine scientific conference to determine the (1) accuracy of disseminated educational messages and the (2) use in providing rapid feedback to speakers. Most speakers were happy for key messages to be tweeted, and the majority of tweets (34/37) represented these accurately. It is important that speakers and conference organisers consider Twitter use and its potential benefits and disadvantages
The Impact of Online Social Networks on Decision Support Systems
Get PDFPrevious research on this matter had already determined that many
concepts are encompassed by both online social networking and decision support
systems research. Due to the large number of concepts and using clustering
techniques, we were able to determine four concept clusters, namely: the
technical infrastructure, online communities, network analysis and knowledge
management. Then, we intended to gain further knowledge on how those
concepts influenced DSS related research and the contribution of each cluster to
the support of the phases of decision-making process. We also wanted to perceive
the interconnections among the concept clusters themselves, for which we used
structural equation modeling techniques.
The obtained results evidence that not only online social networks are being used
as a technical infrastructure to support the three decision making phases and to
support knowledge management and online communities, but also that the other
clusters only regard the intelligence phase of the decision process.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
An Emergency Medicine Research Priority Setting Partnership to establish the top 10 research priorities in emergency medicine
Get PDFPopulation and hierarchy of active species in gold iron oxide catalysts for carbon monoxide oxidation
Get PDFThe identity of active species in supported gold catalysts for low temperature carbon monoxide oxidation remains an unsettled debate. With large amounts of experimental evidence supporting theories of either gold nanoparticles or sub-nm gold species being active, it was recently proposed that a size-dependent activity hierarchy should exist. Here we study the diverging catalytic behaviours after heat treatment of Au/FeOx materials prepared via co-precipitation and deposition precipitation methods. After ruling out any support effects, the gold particle size distributions in different catalysts are quantitatively studied using aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). A counting protocol is developed to reveal the true particle size distribution from HAADF-STEM images, which reliably includes all the gold species present. Correlation of the populations of the various gold species present with catalysis results demonstrate that a size-dependent activity hierarchy must exist in the Au/FeOx catalyst
Refreshing the emergency medicine research priorities
Get PDFopen access articleThe priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the James Lind Alliance (JLA). Much has changed in the last 5 years, not least a global infectious disease pandemic and a significant worsening of the crisis in the urgent and emergency care system. Our aim was to review and refresh the emergency medicine research priorities
Zero point survey: a multidisciplinary idea to STEP UP resuscitation effectiveness
Get PDFThe primary survey assessment is a cornerstone of resuscitation processes. The name itself implies that it is the first step in resuscitation. In this article, we argue that in an organized resuscitation the primary survey must be preceded by a series of steps to optimize safety and performance and set the stage for the execution of expert team behavior. Even in the most time critical situations, an effective team will optimize the environment, perform self-assessments of personal readiness and participate in a preemptive team brief. We call these processes the ‘zero point survey’ as it precedes the primary survey. This paper explains the rationale for the zero point survey and describes a structured approach designed to be suitable for all resuscitation situations
Environmental determination or organizational design: An exploration of organizational decision making under environmental uncertainty
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