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Evaluation of the Cardiology program
18 September 2007
Released December 2006
Download the evaluation as Word doc or PDF.
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Open University using our Cardiology material
20 July 2007
The Open University is now using our Cardiology education material in their Understanding cardiovascular diseases (SK121) course.
Course summary
This course provides an introductory overview of the diseases of the heart and circulation. It starts with an introduction to cardiovascular diseases and the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system. Students will study the risk factors and the patterns and methods of prevention of these diseases in a global context. The course text, case studies, and multimedia will all show students the characteristic symptoms and pathology of peripheral vascular and coronary heart disease; their diagnosis using a variety of techniques; and subsequent medical, surgical and lifestyle management. The course will appeal to you if you�re a patient, health care worker, work in a profession allied to medicine, or just have a general interest in the subject.
The course has two presentations per year, one in September and the other in May.
More information and registration details here. Visit Distance Learning Open University.
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Type 2 with Diabetes UK
28 February 2007
Multi-ed has recently completed work with Diabetes UK to produce tailored Type 2 programs for the Asian community.
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Healthy Eating added to Cardiology patient programs
17 October 2006
Multi-ed has just updated all patient Cardiology programs, adding a Healthy eating section to Angina, Heart attack, Heart failure, Hypertension and the Palpitations program.
The new section covers:
- Healthy eating introduction
- A balanced diet
- Eating for a healthy heart
- What about my weight?
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Updated Healthy Eating section for Diabetes programs
09 October 2006
The Diabetes professional education program and the Type 1 and Type 2 patient education programs have had their Healthy eating (diet) sections completely reproduced and updated.
The new headings under Treatment are as follows:
Type 1 healthy eating
- Food choices: Introduction
- Carbohydrates
- Types of carbohydrate: Introduction
- Fast acting carbohydrates
- Medium acting carbohydrates
- Slow acting carbohydrates
- Eating patterns and amounts of carbohydrate
- Healthy eating
Type 2 healthy eating
- Food choices: Introduction
- Managing blood glucose and improving insulin resistance
- Short term effects on blood glucose
- Long term effects on blood glucose
- Managing blood pressure
- Managing cholesterol and prevention of damage to blood vessels
- Weight management
- Making changes in your food choices
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Cardiology updates and additions
19 September 2006
The Cardiology professional education program has had the following updates and additions:
Updates
- Basic Life Support animated guidelines (in the Toolkit).
Additions
- What is in-stent restenosis?
- What are drug eluting stents?
- What is dyssynchrony?
- What is Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT)?
- What is a biventricular pacemaker?
- How is a biventricular pacemaker implanted?
- What happens after a biventricular pacemaker is implanted?
- What are the complications?
- What are biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillators (Bi-V ICDs)?
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Open University using our Diabetes material
29 June 2006
The Open University is now using our Diabetes education in their Diabetes Care (SK120) course.
Course summary
This course provides an introductory overview of diabetes care, with the person with diabetes as the centre of focus. You will study medical, social, psychological and educational aspects of the condition of diabetes, and learn about its diagnosis, complications, treatment, lifestyle changes and the role of individuals within the diabetes ‘team’. It will appeal to students from a variety of backgrounds, including people with diabetes, health care workers and anyone interested in learning more about the condition.
More information and registration details here. Visit Distance Learning Open University.
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Multi-ed Medical supports the UN Resolution on Diabetes
09 June 2006
The time is right for a United Nations Resolution on diabetes
A United Nations Resolution on diabetes will focus world attention on the need to stop the growing diabetes epidemic through urgent action. The solutions require the attention of the global family of nations. To do nothing is no longer an option. Diabetes can only emerge from the shadows if the United Nations leads the global response and declares a Resolution on diabetes.
Diabetes is a global pandemic
Though it now affects more than 230 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 350 million by 2025, diabetes still lurks in the shadows. Diabetes is a growing epidemic that threatens to overwhelm healthcare services and undermine economies worldwide – especially in developing countries.
- Diabetes is a chronic disease marked by elevated blood glucose levels. In many countries in Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and the Caribbean, diabetes affects up to 20% of the adult population.
- Of the entire global adult population, more than five percent have diabetes.
- While diabetes kills as many people as HIV/AIDS, awareness of the disease is low and as a consequence the epidemic remains hidden.
An ominous rise in Type 2 diabetes will place a severe burden on medical services if left unchecked. Type 2 diabetes is due to the body’s resistance to insulin and is responsible for 90 to 95 percent of diabetes cases. Type 1 diabetes, which is characterized by a lack of production of insulin in the body, is also increasing alarmingly.
Indigenous populations worldwide are at risk of being wiped out because of their genetic risk for Type 2 diabetes. This combined with increased urbanization, high cases of obesity, sedentary lifestyles and stress is resulting in very high rates of diabetes in indigenous communities. With 50 percent of adults over the age of 35 in these groups worldwide having diabetes, the very existence of some of these communities is threatened. For many it is a race against time to turn the epidemic around.
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Website relaunch
08 May 2006
Multi-ed is delighted to announce the launch of their new website which boasts a new online shop and overall redesign. The site is much more concise and integrates well with the newly developed online education.
The site uses standards compliant CSS to address issues of useability and accessibilty as well as making the site printer friendly.
The site’s design is based on a hybrid layout: with fixed-width side columns for navigation and a liquid center column that expands to fill the browser window regardless of the size of the user’s screen or their choice of window resizing. Elements within the page are elastic so that they will stretch accordingly without breaking if the user chooses to enlarge the default text size.
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Redesigned educational programs
23 March 2006
The range of Multi-ed educational programs have been redesigned from the ground up. The new interface is now online enabled so users can login and view the rich content from any computer linked to the internet using their unique username and password. A cd-rom is no longer necessary but is still available upon request.
New features
- Online enabled: viewable on the internet through any browser, on any PC, laptops and Apple Macs.
- Can be installed on individual PCs or on a network of PCs or intranet.
- Small file sizes means fast download speed (less chance of a playback delay over the internet). Far less room is also taken up on the hard drive should you wish to install the program from a cd-rom.
- Accessible interface: keyboard shortcuts and arrow key navigation is available for convenience and people with impaired mobility.
- Larger buttons make it easier to navigate and makes the program ready to be used in touch-screen kiosks.
Other features
- Interactive education using animated diagrams and pictures with subtitles and voice-over.
- Guidelines – the programs for health care professionals incorporate the NSF, NICE and European Guidelines.
- Leaflets – the user can read and print out pdf quality leaflets.
- Toolkit – designed especially with the practice nurse in mind.
- Audit Trail – provides the ability to audit the education that has been delivered. A record of which animations have been viewed can also be printed out.
- Web links – extarnal online resources and website links are provided in one convenient location.
- Drawing tool in health care professionals’ programs: each animation can be paused – turning the cursor icon into a pen tool. This allows the health care professional the ability to add their own input to a particular part of the education by drawing on top of the on-screen diagrams and pictures.
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