Wikipedia and YouTube

Wikipedia is good reference for definition sources for medical education students but not for research learning. Most medical students have to have a research base in particular specialties resulting in detailed and advanced study. Wikipedia does not give enough resources for medical students complete these study concentrations. Therefore, I would not use Wikipedia a resource completely. 

I would on the other hand, I would  include YouTube as a medical student tool for learning. YouTube gives a huge amount of room for medical school resource sharing and provide visual imagery to enhance retrieval of stored information. The integration of YouTube also creates a unique way for educational content online learning and collaboration through real-life situations and observation. 

I don't necessarily teach with YouTube but my involvements with assisting medical faculty with their educational teachings, I have found the YouTube and popular method for e-learning and online education and research learning.

Although anyone can upload to YouTube, medical teaching and learning is somewhat reliable based on various copyright protections and permissible medical education filing sharing considerations.

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The following are my added RSS reader Blog selections:

- Patient engagement in the digital health era. I selected this blog partially with our current study topics for this class about engaging collaboration using technologies and also because of my related job involvements with designing learning using new technologies for Continuing Medical Education.I found it even more relating because it describes a new technology method for learning engagement with is new app (mHealth apps). This is form of digital technology is another developing initiative towards performance improvements for medical doctors and other healthcare professionals. From reading this blog I can see the enhancing trends of developing medical e-learning and digital technologies for research and medical e-learning educational communities.

- Trends in Online Learning: #FOAMED.   This blog is of interest to me because it again it my current educational research interests. It involves medical educational learning trends about free open access for online medical education delivery. This trend study of open access for learning  is inclusive of blogs, twitter chats, and other social media tools. From this blog, I found in really interesting with the fact that this form of open source learning delivery is actually being used by health care professionals for effective teaching delivery. This blog also supports my interest toward online medical education advances and development to enhance online medical education teaching practices. 

- Online distance learning: reflections on practice. This particular blog gave personal insight with using the current methods of distance education for delivering instruction as compared to past traditional medical educational delivery. Sarah Henderson is the originator of this blog gives her personal expertise as the Program Director and lead at the University of Edinburgh's Distance Learning Masters program in Pain Management. Her reflections gave me relating insight toward the developing directions of online learning in Higher Education and more specifically at a heath care learning institution. I agree with and support her reflection of the changes with medical online learning to be ongoing and promising for future health care learning.

The following are my related 5 twitter follow:

- Mike Cadogan‏@sandnsurf is a ER physician and co-founder of #FOAMED who tweet about medical open access learning teaching and learning. 

- Natalie Lafferty@nlaffert  is an open learning practitioner and tweet about medical teaching and learning using free open access learning education 

-  twitfrg@twitfrg this twitter is ran by Sophie Bishton who gives learning delivery through twitter to medical students 

- Esther Barsom@EstherBarsom tweets about medical research and education using videoconsultancy

- Digital MedCom@DigMedCom- this twitter post about healthcare social media and healthcare.


Reflection:  I have not really used twitter or RSS blogging as tools for learning. I have used twitter in the past personally and for another class but did not find it personally interesting. As I am using both in this class in more detail, I can see both as good resources for obtaining information. 

I think that I gravitate more toward twitter only because I have used it prior to this class and it seem to be a current popular and common tool for social media, networking and communication. 

A couple of things that I would want to improve for my information gathering are better learning structuring of information and better networking communication engagement,