Digital literacy survey: Outcome of reliability testing
Earlier this year we started the International Ethics Project, a collaboration between physiotherapy departments from several countries who intend offering an online course in professional ethics to...
View ArticleThe CONSORT guidelines for systematic reviews of RCTs
When I was at the WCPT conference last year I came across the CONSORT guidelines for the publication of systematic reviews of RCTS, which I’d never heard of before. I made a note to look it up and...
View ArticleAbstract for RCTs in educational research
There seems to have been a resurgence in calls for the use of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials in educational research lately. There’s a lot to like (in my opinion) about RCTs in...
View ArticleAction research as liberation
Kemmis & Mctaggert’s (1990) definition of action research is that it is about improving the lives of people through transformation. It is an emancipatory approach to the research process that does...
View ArticleOpenPhysio | A new physiotherapy education journal
I’m really excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on together with the folks at Physiopedia. Today we’re launching an open access, peer reviewed journal with a focus on physiotherapy...
View ArticleYou are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users...
We spend a lot of time focusing on the content of messaging systems as a means of identifying people but it looks like the metadata encoded alongside the content may be just as important when it comes...
View ArticleEmotions and assessment: considerations for rater‐based judgements of...
We identify and discuss three different interpretations of the influence of raters’ emotions during assessments: (i) emotions lead to biased decision making; (ii) emotions contribute random noise to...
View ArticleRead: Academic research
Many people think that “ivory tower” intellectuals make little difference in the world. But some of the highest impact people in history have been researchers, and if you have good personal fit with...
View ArticleWhat does scholarship sound like?
in this post I've tried to describe why podcasts are potentially a useful format for creating and sharing the production of new knowledge, presented a framework for determining if a podcast could be...
View ArticleSAAHE podcast on building a career in HPE
In addition to the In Beta podcast that I host with Ben Ellis (@bendotellis), I’m also involved with a podcast series on health professions education with the South African Association of Health...
View ArticleSurvey: Physiotherapy clinicians’ perceptions of artificial intelligence in...
We know very little about how physiotherapy clinicians think about the impact of AI-based systems on clinical practice, or how these systems will influence human relationships and professional...
View ArticleArticle: Which are the tools available for scholars?
In this study, we explored the availability and characteristics of the assisting tools for the peer-reviewing process. The aim was to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tools available...
View ArticleComment: Should we use AI to make us quicker and more efficient researchers?
The act of summarising is not neutral. It involves decisions and choices that feed into the formation of knowledge and understanding. If we are to believe some of the promises of AI, then tools like...
View ArticleResource: The Scholarly Kitchen podcast.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a “nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking,...
View Article#APaperADay: It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into...
This is my first attempt to share a short summary of a paper that I’ve read as part of my #APaperADay project, where I try to put aside the last 30-60 minutes of every day for reading and summarising...
View Article#APaperADay – The Last Mile: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Reality
“…implementation should be seen as an agile, iterative, and lightweight process of obtaining training data, developingalgorithms, and crafting these into tools and workflows.” Coiera, E. (2019). The...
View ArticleResource: Towards a curated library for AI in healthcare
I’ve started working on what will eventually become a curated library of resources that I’m using for my research on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on clinical practice. At...
View Article#APaperADay: Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify
Bordage, G. (2009). Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify. Medical Education, 43(4), 312–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03295.x Conceptual frameworks represent ways of thinking...
View Article#APAperADay: Twelve tips for getting your manuscript published.
Cook, D. A. (2016). Twelve tips for getting your manuscript published. Medical Teacher, 38(1), 41–50. I went through this article to present it for discussion at our departmental journal club meeting...
View ArticleOpen Source: Zotero (reference manager)
Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online...
View Article