An Expert Surveys the Assessment Landscape – Student Affairs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

An Expert Surveys the Assessment Landscape – Student Affairs – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
 This week, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, released “More Than You Think, Less Than We Need: Learning Outcomes Assessment in American Higher Education,” a report that describes how more than 1,500 colleges measure what students learn.

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Twitter could provide ‘innovative solutions’ for long-term conditions

Twitter could provide ‘innovative solutions’ for long-term conditions
Andy Pulman stated, “Twitter has evolved beyond its basic functionality to provide a variety of alternate uses, some of which are health-related and which might offer opportunities in relation to improving health.”
Twitter is a social networking software that allows users to post messages of less than 140 characters. [...]

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Grad Students do have a higher incidence of depression than does the general public

This is old but perhaps may be relevant to some of you.
Grad Students do have a higher incidence of depression than does the general public
Originally from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth

1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth
I’m not crazy about spiders but this is interesting. An 11 ft x 4 ft cloth was produced from only the silk from golden orb spiders. Over one million large spiders were collected from telephone poles in Madagascar.
“We had to find people who were willing to work with spiders,” [...]

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Why Leaves Change Color

This is a particularly good article explaining why leaves change color.
Rainbow on the Bough Outdoor Indiana Magazine, September 2005.

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H1N1 and Antibiotics

All the press about influenza, H1N1, and public health right now talks about using antibiotic ointments to protect yourself and others from the flu.
I haven’t seen anything yet, but I’m waiting for articles to start appearing about the potential dangers of overuse of antibiotic drugs and materials and their part in encouraging the growth of [...]

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Peer Review Problems in Medicine

http://acrlog.org/2007/09/14/peer-review-problems-in-medicine/ 
Even peer review is subject to the temptations of greed, competition, vanity, and jealousy. Peer review is a way to screen information, but it still doesn’t release you from the responsibility of thinking for yourself.

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JAMA — Abstract: Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students, September 23/30, 2009, Chretien et al. 302 (12): 1309

JAMA — Abstract: Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students, September 23/30, 2009, Chretien et al. 302 (12): 1309.
Sixty percent (47/78) of US medical schools reported incidents of medical students posting unprofessional online content.

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HHS guts health-care breach notification law, groups warn

HHS guts health-care breach notification law, groups warn
Privacy and civil rights advocates accused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of trying to neuter a landmark data breach notification law for health care organizations that is scheduled to go into effect next week. Original wording required patients be notified if their record is compromised. [...]

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Ardito, S. C. (2009). The medical blogosphere. Searcher, 17(5), 22-51.

 
Ardito, S. C. (2009). The medical blogosphere. Searcher, 17(5), 22-51.
About how social networking trends are changing searching for health information.

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