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Reusable Learning Objects: |  |
| Below is a catalogue of all RLOs that have been produced, are currently in the process of being produced, or are scheduled for future production: | |||||||||||
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| Acids, Alkalis & Bases: An Introduction | Jennifer Dandrea Ann Lawrie Rob McLeish |
Nottingham | A gentle introduction to the pH scale, the concept of indirect measurement and molecule dissocation into ions. It explains why pure water is netural (ph 7), why acids have a low pH value, and why alkalis and bases have a high pH value. | Paul Robertson | Released RLO Central |
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| Acids, Alkalis & Bases: Further Application | Jennifer Dandrea Ann Lawrie Rob McLeish |
Nottingham | Common acids, alkalis and bases. Dissociation of acids, alkalis and bases. Denaturation, neutralisation, combination of acids and alkalis and formation of salts. Prerequisites: Before using this RLO you shouild be familiar with ther pH scale, dissociation into ions and the definition of acids and alkalis. If in doubt, work through Acids, alkalis and bases: an introduction first. |
Paul Robertson | Released RLO Central |
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| Balancing fluid intake and output | Nottingham | Information in balancing fluids in children and infants | Concept | ||||||||
| Bioavailability | Nottingham | Introduction to the concept of the bioavailability of drugs | Released Nott. Web site |
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| Drug-receptor Interaction | Mark Foss | Nottingham | Introduction to the interaction of cell receptors with drugs | Gareth Peevers | RLO Peer Review | ||||||
| Drugs Acting at the Synapse | Nottingham | Describes the effect of drugs on the synapse | Under Development | ||||||||
| Exploring the Synapse | Nottingham | Describes the events during the transmission of an impulse across a synapse | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Half-life of Drugs (1) | Heather Wharrad | Nottingham | To understand the half-life of drugs and its relationship with volume of distribution and clearance | Fred Riley | Released Nott. Web site |
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| Half-life of Drugs (2) | Heather Wharrad | Nottingham | Fred Riley | Specification | |||||||
| Heart Conduction | Paul Bradley | Peninsula | Contraction of chambers and their ctrl by bundle of His and purkinje fibres. ECG associated with the beat in same window | Peninsula Team (Paul Russel) |
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| Inguinal hernia | James Oldham | Peninsula | This RLO has a series of pages detailing incidence, reason and 3D anatomy of inguinal hernia | Peninsula Team (Paul Russel) |
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| Lock and Key Hypothesis | Richard Windle | Nottingham | Introducing the "lock and key" analogy of drug-receptor interaction, whereby only drugs of a certain molecular shape will 'fit' with a cell membrane receptor | Ahmad Athamneh | RLO Peer Review | ||||||
| Plasma Proteins and Drug Distribution | Nottingham | Examining the role of plasma proteins in the distribution and retention of drugs in the body | Gareth Peevers | Under Development | |||||||
| Protein Synthesis | Tony Farine | Nottingham | Concept | ||||||||
| Regulation of Blood Glucose/Glucose Homeostasis | Tim Ford Fergus Doherty |
Nottingham | Understanding of homeostasis regulation of blood glucose concentrations | Specification | |||||||
| Renin-angiotensin System | Ann Lawrie | Nottingham | Concept | ||||||||
| Respiratory Ventilation: Anatomy and Mechanics | Heather Bull | Nottingham | Presents the purpose of ventilation, the anatomical parts involved, and the muscular activity that enables ventilation to take place at rest | Vivien Rolfe | Awaiting Development | ||||||
| Understanding First Pass Metabolism | Fiona Bath-Hextall | Nottingham | Description of first pass metabolism of orally-administered drugs in the liver and gastrointestinal tract | Fred Riley | Released Nott. Web site |
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| ACCE Framework | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | An introducton to the ACCE framework, a helpful model to emphasise the key components of a genetic test evaluation. | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Clinical Utility of Genetic Information | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | Covering the topic of clinical utility of genetic information. The object focuses on genetic information associated with colorectal cancer. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| DNA | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | Animated examples of the techniques developed for detecting, copying, and sequencing DNA. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Informed Consent | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | Explaining why consent is required in a treatment setting. It describes levels of consent, the need for informed consent and the history of informed consent. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Moral Theories | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | A description of the moral theories that are used to justify or clarify healthcare professionals' clinical decsions. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Patents | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | How drugs can be patented. The topics covered include: what is necessary for a patent, how to file for a patent and what can and cannot be patented. | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Penetrance | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | The probability of a person carrying a disease-associated genotype developing the disease within a given time frame. | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Pharmacogenomics | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | The study of genetic influences on an individual's response to drugs | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Using Twin and Adoption Studies | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | The use and effectiveness of twin and adoption studies to enrich our understanding of the contribution of genetics and environmental factors in disease causation. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Disease Susceptibility | Public Health Genetics Foundation | Cambridge | Linkage and gene-disease association studies to assess their usefulness in explaining why certain people suffer specific diseases and others do not. | Ugly Studios | Released RLO Central |
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| Birth-Prevalence | Cambridge | Understanding birth-prevalence as a special type of prevalence | Released RLO Central |
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| Incidence | Cambridge | An explanation of incidence as the measurement of disease frequency | Released RLO Central |
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| Incidence-Prevalence | Cambridge | An explanation of the relationship between incidence and prevalence with an interactive example | Released RLO Central |
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| NNT/NNH | Peninsula | Numbers needed to treat/numbers needed to harm | Peninsula Team (Paul Russel) |
Released RLO Central |
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| Prevalence | Cambridge | An explanation of prevalence as the measurement of a situation at one time | Dawn Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Observational Study Designs | Veena Rodrigues | UEA | Nigel Curson | Specification | |||||||
| Sensitivity and Specificity | Kerry Maunder |
Cambridge | Describes the different outcomes of a test, for people with or without a disease. The effect of varying the threshold on the sensitivity and specificity is also considered | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Classifications of Recreational Drugs | Tony Clamp Andrew Russell David Chappel |
Durham | A learner constructs their own rank ordering by different metrics of recreational drugs, including legal and illegal substances | Specification | |||||||
| Complex Ethical Decision Making | Andy Bond Dawn Leeder |
Westminster Cambridge |
Takes the learner on a journey through the stages and viewpoints that influence a complex dicision | Specification | |||||||
| Gateways to Health | Tessa Muncey Bob Hallawell |
Homerton School of Health Studies | A series of video clips of case vignettes to support the facilitation of IPL through PBL. These scenarios focus on problems that are commonly encountered by students in the early phases of training. | Neil D'Souza Li Wei Deng |
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| How to Talk to People who can Help you | Tony Bottiglieri Gerrie Jones |
Homerton | To enable participant to achieve their objectives when communicating with health and social care professionals | Specification | |||||||
| Understanding Models of Disability | Nottingham | A summary of the different ways disability can be viewed | Specification | ||||||||
| Why do we need Confidentiality? | Pamela Black Rebecca Tovey Alison Hall Marianna Gregson Penny Miller Christine Patch Mark Towriss |
Cambridge | Presents the principles of confidentiality and key concepts of consent, privacy, trust, public interest and disclosure. A generic case conference approach enables users to consider and respond to the potential disclosure of genetic, disease and behavioural information. | Alan Leeder | Released | ||||||
| Write Safe, Read Safe, B Safe | Katie Dann Helen Dobbins Richard Pitt |
Derby Nottingham |
Safe writing and interpretation of a prescription chart | Specification | |||||||
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| Risk Assessment in Manual Handling | UEA | Examines the risks involved in the manual handling of patients | Spencer Phillips | Released RLO Central |
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| Hand Hygiene | Alison Columbine | Nottingham | Practical hand hygiene techniques for infection control | Fred Riley | Released RLO Central |
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| Participant and Non-Participant Observation | Bruce Lindsay | UEA | Presents the choice between participant and non-participant observation and how it is based on the circumstances of the individual research project | Jo Bruce | Released RLO Central |
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| Using a Published Questionnaire | Paul Garrud | Nottingham | Specification | ||||||||
| Why a Questionnaire? | Nottingham | What questionnaires are good for; when alternative methods may be more suitable | Released RLO Central |
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| Acids, Bases and Buffers | Nottingham Cambridge |
Defining and explaining acids, bases, and buffers, from an ionic standpoint | Specification | ||||||||
| Pressure | Nottingham | Introducing basic concepts of physical pressure | Released Nott. Web site |
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| The Black Report and Inequalities in Health | Cambridge | Shows the persistence and complexity of the social class/health gradient | Released RLO Central |
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| Death | Cambridge | To explain the centrality of the knowledge of mortality and the need for its social integration. To consider different views of death, natural, magical and pathological. Examine the impact of modern technologies on the experience and expectations of death. Introduce the concept of 'social death' and its possible nocebo effect |
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| Doctor/patient Relations | Cambridge | Understanding various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship | Released RLO Central |
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| Gender and Health | Cambridge | To explain the distinction between sex and gender and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered power relations on medicine, health and illness | Specification | ||||||||
| International Classification of Function | Nottingham | Heather Bigley | Under Development | ||||||||
| Medicalisation | Kath Maguire | Cambridge | To explain the concept of medicalisation and the role of the medical model in the enforcing of social norms | Specification | |||||||
| Parsons' Sick Role | Cambridge | The concept, sources, criticisms and strengths of the sick role as developed by Talcott Parsons | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Social Capital | Kath Maguire | Cambridge | To understand the concept of social capital and how it might impact on health outcomes both positively and negatively | Specification | |||||||
| Social Class | Cambridge | Shows the persistence and complexity of the social class/health gradient | Alan Leeder | Released RLO Central |
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| Stigma Attached to STI and Condom use in the UK | Durham | A resource for destigmatising condoms by identifying mechanisms for promoting condoms and information about condoms | Dawn Leeder | Under Development | |||||||
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| Essential Maths for Health Professionals | Jenny Koenig | Cambridge | Scientific notation, amount and concentration, using logarithms. In easy, bite-size chunks. All you need to get up to speed with essential maths for health professionals. | Neil D'Souza-Mathew | Released RLO Central |
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| Levels of Measurement | Nottingham | An explanation of the four different levels of measurement | Released RLO Central |
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| Levels of Measurement - What you can and can't do Arithmetically | Nottingham | An explanation of the statistical operations that can be performed on the different levels of measurement | Released RLO Central |
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| Power and Sample Size | Manchester | An introduction to type I and type II errors with an interactive simulation to show the dynamic effects of variables on the power of the study | Released RLO Central |
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| Probability associated with inferential statistics | Nottingham | The concept of chance and probability and how this applies to the probability of sample errors affecting research results | Released RLO Central |
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| Recognising and interpreting Cross Tabular Data | Cambridge | To be able to recognise cross-tabulated nominal data and interpret it by calculating appropriate percentages, and using these percentages to draw appropriate graphs. | Released RLO Central |
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| Statistics for Dummies | Peninsula | An introduction to the basic elements of statistics | Peninsula Team (Paul Russel) |
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