Our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package has been shortlisted in the Johnson & Johnson Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education category of this year’s RCM Midwifery Awards.

The package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives. Using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline, together with other published evidence, students are provided with an enhanced insight about what kind of support is effective, empowering and valued, and what support is regarded as unhelpful, detrimental and disempowering. They are then encouraged to critically evaluate and challenge current practices that influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, as well as reflect on their own practice and attitudes to breastfeeding.

An edited version of the package should be appearing on the Healthtalkonline site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section. Once this is up and running I’ll post a link to it from here.

RCM Midwifery Awards

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A glowing review of version 2.0 of the Blausen Human Atlas application (£11.99 at the iTunes store in the UK) from Notes from the Clinic. The only caveat seems to be that you need to be in range of Wireless Internet to fully appreciate the videos.

The Blausen Human Atlas website describes the iPhone application as providing point-of-care access to 3D animations of common medical treatments and conditions, with accompanying narration derived from the world’s largest award winning medical animation library.

Source : mobihealthnews twitter feed

Notes from the Clinic: Blausen Human Atlas App

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Hugh Grant (whose mother died of pancreatic cancer) has been helping to raise awareness of Healthtalkonline with one of the creators Dr Ann McPherson on BBC Breakfast…..

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Nice to see the Daily Telegraph writing about Healthtalkonline (formerly Dipex). If you haven’t visited it yet, the site lets you share in other people’s experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people’s experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

We have links to this site through the work we have been doing on our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package and have been working recently on providing them with an edited version of the package which should be appearing on their site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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NHS Choices videos are now available to patients via YouTube….

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Source : Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre E-Bulletin

An example of mobile personal learning with a doctor and patient….

“Rather than trying to explain procedures with patients using just words, he now carries his phone around and shows them actual video clips of the procedures to help them understand what he’s trying to convey”

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Source : OL Weekly

University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in videos on YouTube related to vaccination and immunization….. an extract from the Journal of the American Medical Association is available online

Sources : Memex and Slashdot