Founded in 2006, TeachersPayTeachers speeds this lesson-plan prep work by monetising exchanges between teachers and enabling them to make faster connections with farther-flung colleagues. The site takes 15 per cent commission on most sales.The site’s popularity with
The students, who have been protesting for one year now are seeking an increase in stipend. They are often required to work for more than 24 hours at a stretch without having weekly offs or compensatory offs.
Ideally, physicians should have ready access to and be able to use their performance data to guide their CPD (continuing professional development) and ongoing practice improvement, and ultimately enhance patient care and outcomes…. We can also appreciate
Though ticking competencies off on an e-portfolio shows proficiency in a particular skill, it adds little to clinical experience. As a result, we come across many trainees with bulging CVs and e-portfolio ‘competencies’, but they lack clinical
The creation of medical ideas is a clever way of both acknowledging and permitting creativity in medicine. One of the logical consequences of expecting a highly educated workforce to follow guidelines and checklists meticulously is a tendency
Frugal Innovations talks about the ways to develop products using limited resources Navi Radjou said: ‘We have noticed that many foreign firms are changing the way they not only make their products, but also the manner in
By proposing a staggering, never-before increase of 10 000 medical seats in existing government medical colleges in five years, the Union Cabinet made a statement that it takes healthcare seriously…. To this end, the government has taken
Interview with Professor M.S. Valiathan, cardiac surgeon How long would it take for medical faculty development for such large-scale expansion? If you take a poll among medical doctors passing out MBBS on how many would you like
We not only need a quantitative increase in trained manpower but also improved effectiveness of existing methods in training. The availability of educational resources such as libraries, simulation centres and modern information technology tools at various centres
We are at the leading edge of a wave of innovations in the education of health professionals. Recently, massive open online courses (MOOCs), provided by companies such as Coursera, MIT-Harvard edX, Udacity and iTunesU, have captured much
