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Notes from practice, teaching and research.

I’m Antony Willman, a general practitioner, medical educator and primary care researcher. This is where I share evidence, educational resources and reflections on the work of medicine.

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  • The Familial Risk of Autism

    On the way to a leaving lunch the other day, I was tuned into Radio 4 listening to an article on Autistic Spectrum Disorder and the lengths to which some parents will go to help their children. One mother interviewed was spending up to £700…

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  • Teachers & Social Networking

    British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 43 No 5 2012 754-769 As part of my assignment on learning technologies, I have done some literature searches. My intent is to critically evaluate a series of articles which look at the impact of Social Media on education.…

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  • Mastering Your Risk – MPS course

    The Medical Protection Society run a series of educational courses which are free to members (or a modest fee for non-members).  I have been on three of them now & have found all of them particularly useful.  The most recent one I attended was the…

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  • Top 100 tools for learning

    This list is a pretty comprehensive list of, as the title suggests’ the top 100 tools for learning.  Funnily enough Twitter is number 1 which does not surprise me.  There is an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of social media here with some comments afterwards. Unfortunately…

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  • Social Networking and Learning

    This editorial is worth reading if only to whet the appetite for what is happening in SNS (Social Networking Services).  It is from the British Journal of Educational Technology (Vol 43, Issue 5; Sept 2012).  Unfortunately it is not free access. However one of the…

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  • Resources

    I have added a new resources page. This will carry permanent links to downloadable teaching and education tools for all to use.

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  • June Meeting – Patient Safety

    The June meeting used the Patient Safety – learning from Human Error module.  This was a really useful module as it was less didactic and the members really got into it. The examples from other industries and professions was a good way at analyzing what…

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  • Welcome

    Welcome to the first blog entry of our PBSGL Blog!  I would appreciate it if you can spend a bit of time reading through this as a an invite to participate. This blog has two purposes.  I unashamedly am using you as my Guinea Pigs…

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  • Test

    Testing 123

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