Cognitive load theory (CLT) is a theory of instructional design based on an experimentally derived model of cognitive architecture and focuses on the ease with which novel information is processed by working memory, which has limited capacity
Burnout: a sustained response to chronic work stress with emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and perceived lack of personal accomplishment
Dr John A. Durkan specialist in orthopedic and sports medicine. Eponymously affiliated with Durkan's test in carpal tunnel syndrome
Time to review the descriptions and eponymythology of the forgotten signs associated with Graves orbitopathy - the signs of Dalrymple, Stellwag, von Graefe, Möbius and Joffroy...
In case the noodling post hasn’t already made you afraid of getting in the water, here is yet another thing to worry about with regards to catfish. Catfish have multiple spines, and if you weren’t aware of that already then…
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This is a great little piece was written by UK-based emergency medicine registrar Dr Matt Edwards
No, I haven’t switched to writing a CAM blog. I’ve covered natural remedies before, simply because that may be all you have at hand in the back country. This isn’t one of those situations. I don’t expect you to pull…
Robert Kienböck (1871-1953) was an Austrian radiologist and pioneer in radiotherapy. Eponymously associated with Kienböck's disease - avascular necrosis of the lunate bone
Kienböck Disease: Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis) of the lunate leading to abnormal carpal motion. Descriebd 1910 by Robert Kienböck (1871-1953)
I’ve written here before about austere wound care, and one of the important comments I received was “irrigate with water clean enough to drink.” That’s a very valid point, as you don’t want to introduce new pathogens into the wound.…
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