Problem Based Learning for Business – Fat Cat Pay

Fat Cat Pay – worth every million? is the latest topic added to the Problem Based Learning section of biz/ed. Fat Cat Pay makes me angry (and not just because I’m a poorly paid librarian).  I just don’t believe in the economic arguments for it (and I have a business background, before you ask).  The web site includes useful guides for educators and students.

Pain Talk

Run by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, Pain Talk provides an online forum for anyone interested in acute, chronic or palliative pain management. There are lots of resources including handy calculators for BMI, weight management, analgesia scales etc, news of the latest developments on the web and a useful media watch service, looking at what the papers are saying about pain management.

International Review of Economics Education

 

The latest issue of the International Review of Economics Education is available at no charge online. Produced by the Higher Education Academy Economics Network, this issue includes papers on reading groups as a teaching method, teaching contingent valuation and operationalising the threshold concept of opportunity cost.

Healthcare in Britain: how are we doing?

      

We’re coming up to Christmas, so it must be time for looking back and taking stock. Lo! and Behold! that’s just what the NHS and the Health Commission have done. Take a look atthe following reports on the state of healthcare in the UK:

Review of Children’s Services: from the Healthcare Commission, the first in a series of four reviews of different aspects of healthcare. Assesses services in relation to the National Service Framework for Children and Young People’s Services.

Annual Health Check 2006/2007: again from the Healthcare Commission, this report assesses and rates the NHS across standards of safety, patient focus and clinical effectiveness.

State of Healthcare 2006: the Healthcare Commission’s report to parliament on “the provision of healthcare by or for NHS bodies”

NHS Reference Costs 2005/2006: details of what the NHS spends their money on, from the Department of Health.

And finally, looking to the future:

NHS Operating Framework for 2007/2008: health service priorities, key reforms and financial objectives for the year ahead, from the Department of Health.

Design Dictionary

Design Dictionary is a nice looking online dictionary of design, available in English or Italian (which is encouraging). It covers designers, products, firms, design terms, materials, organisations, books, magazines and schools.

National Knowledge Week: Bipolar Disorder

11th-18th December 2006 is the National Knowledge Week for Bipolar Disorder. The National Library for Health’s Specialist Library for Mental Health has produced a range of resources to help you cut through the large amount of information available. The site provides a good treatment overview, and ‘brief evidence-based summaries for individual treatments’ including drugs and talking therapies. Essential for anyone with an interest in bipolar disorders.

Internet for Social Policy and Social Work

Good old Intute, the people who help you find quality information on the Internet, have just published two new Internet tutorials. Each one is aimed at HE and gives you lots of info on successfully searching the web and locating sites that are worth using. Take a look at the Internet Tutorial for Social Work and the Internet Tutorial for Social Policy for more.

Research Issues in Art, Design and Media

Research Issues in Art, Design and Media is an annually published e-journal.

It is published by the Research Training Initiative (RTI), a project based at UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), which aims to develop and support research education and training in art, design and media.

Emergency care

 

Need to know about pre-hospital and emergency care? Then these are the sites for you:

Ambulance Services: from the Information Centre, statistics about NHS ambulance services in England 2005-6. Over 6 million emergency calls for ambulances are made each year- good work people!

British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS): the charity that co-ordinates schemes and individuals involved in immediate care across the UK. Contains sections for nurses and paramedics.

Emergency Medicine Journal: Don’t forget that the leading international journal for emergency medicine is available online. The most recent issue and everything over a year old is free, going back to 2000.

Game Studies – free online scholarly journal

Game Studies is a free online international journal of computer game research. Archives of past articles are available. Looks really good!