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Fastbleep Blog

  1. A new year…

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    The 2011/12 academic year starts today. We’re really excited about what the new year will bring for Fastbleep, as the rate of development over the last ten months has been amazing. Here’s a preview of some of what we’ve got planned: 1. Fastbleep Notes The Notes project has a new...
  2. Clinical Teacher

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    Day-long intensive teaching skills masterclass We will be running another Clinical Teacher masterclass: Sun 9 Oct – Book Tickets Now Venue: Education North, Royal Manchester Infirmary Unique opportunity to develop teaching skills in a supportive environment. “I was able to find out new ways of teaching, and to practise giving...
  3. Introducing the Fastbleep Academy

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    In medical school? Qualified as a doctor? Fastbleep are excited to announce the development of our new project, the Fastbleep Academy, and we are looking for medical students, doctors and organisations to be interviewed and contribute information about different aspects of medicine. The Vision Medical schools are renowned for accepting...
  4. Clinical Governance & Audit Seminar

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    Seminar Overview An overview of clinical governance, and the role that clinical audit plays. Oriented towards students carrying out an audit project option, this will cover how to design, carry out and report an audit. Where: Lecture Theatre A, University Place When: 6pm, Tues 17 May Speaker Profiles Audit Officer,...
  5. Academic Seminar Series

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    Fastbleep is running a series of ten academic seminars. These are primarily aimed at fourth year students undertaking their Project Option, but many of them will be useful to students from other years too. The seminars will be delivered by various professionals, including doctors, PhD students and university representatives. All...
  6. Writing for Publication

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    Speaker Biography Professor Tim Dornan Tim Dornan is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Education at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He studied medicine and history and philosophy of science at Cambridge and qualified as a doctor from Oxford in 1975. After postgraduate posts in Oxford and Nottingham, he...
  7. Critical Appraisal Seminar

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    Seminar Overview An overview of how to critically appraise studies for a literature review. Covers basic science papers, clinical studies and qualitative research. Slides Critical Appraisal Overview Webcasts   Critical Appraisal Masterclass Part 1 from Fastbleep on Vimeo. Speaker Profiles James Durrand James is a final year medical student, who...
  8. Retention of basic science knowledge

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    Here’s a paper to consider this week: Custers EJFM, ten Cate OTJ. Very long-term retention of basic science knowledge in doctors after graduation. Med Educ. 2011; 45(4): 422-430. Journal | Pubmed It’s an interesting one examining the frequent complaint that biomedical knowledge quickly declines post-graduation from medical school.