Epidemiologist & Clinical Fellow @EdinburghUni | #Neurosurgery trainee @NorthBristolNHS | @SUTURE_UK | Views are my own 🇭🇰🏴✝️
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Michael McPoon retweeted
This second article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to deciding on the target of the certainty rating, and rating down certainty of evidence due to imprecision.
bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024…
Michael McPoon retweeted
PROBAST+AI is out!
This is "a comprehensive tool that allows to assess the trustworthiness, value, fairness, quality, risk of bias and applicability of prediction models" (probast.org)
bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2024…
Michael McPoon retweeted
Causal Inference: What If. Miguel A. Hernan, James M. Robins. CRC Press, July 30, 2025, 312 Pages. routledge.com/Causal-Inferen…
Michael McPoon retweeted
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race…
Happy #BurnsNight from all of us here at the RSNO – slàinte!
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#AddressToAHaggis
Michael McPoon retweeted
Good to see promise made by @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk promise re Regulation of NHS managers now out for Consultation
Please contribute if you can
Worth cascading for further views @NHSConfed @NHSEmployers @HSJEditor @NHSEngland @HSJnews
Link:
consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/67…
Michael McPoon retweeted
A victory for patient safety: our case against the GMC over their failure to properly regulate Associates is now heading straight to the High Court!
Mr Justice Chamberlain ruled it raises serious issues for patients and he granted us permission and expedition.
bit.ly/AUgoahead
Michael McPoon retweeted
Are you looking to improve your skills in writing funding applications?
Our training course for reviewing has recently been revamped and covers reviewing in all contexts for NIHR research funding programmes, plus skills and activities required at different levels and stages of research.
Learn more about the course ⬇️ peopleinresearch.24livehost.…
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Michael McPoon retweeted
Really interesting piece in BMJ.
Promoted by @trishgreenhalgh
bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q137…
We ignore this research at the cost of patient safety (and vicarious liability).
PATIENTS DESERVE BETTER
Michael McPoon retweeted
"If others won't lead, we will."
Today @DrPhilBanfield announced we are launching legal action against the GMC, over MAPs and the use of the term ‘medical professionals’.
Here's why ⬇️📣 #ARM2024
There's not long until the polls open on 4 July. To ensure party leaders listen to doctors' views on MAPs this general election, join me and add your name to the BMA's open letter to party leaders.
It only takes a few minutes! #PatientsNeedDoctors #GE2024 activism.bma.org.uk/page/152…
Michael McPoon retweeted
Online course: "Introduction to Data Science & Machine Learning" (18-19 June 2024). Free of charge to all academics.
This @ARCHER2_HPC course, delivered by EPCC staff, will give a short introduction to data science before focusing on machine learning.
archer2.ac.uk/training/cours…
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Obviously wider implications but...
1 in 10 of the top 100 ‘best’ scientists are named Michael or Eric, but only 3% are female, according to @guide2research. Putting aside the obvious flaws of the H-index, these numbers are disheartening. Thanks to @mbeisen for sharing. research.com/scientists-rank…
ALT Infographic showing that 3 in 100 “best” scientists in the world are female and 10 in 100 are named Michael or Eric.
Michael McPoon retweeted
10 tips on how we write papers (1/3) @Matter_CP
#paperwriting #scientificwriting #writingtips #writing #researchtips #PhD #phchat #Academia #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #medx #Meded
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Michael McPoon retweeted
ASiT and the Surgical Specialty Training Organisations have released a joint statement in response to a recently published in The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England
What should be the #priorities in delivering surgical care?
Share with us your thoughts
🔗 tinyurl.com/ASJSM24
Michael McPoon retweeted
We look forward to welcome Professor Andrew King to host our next free online talk in academic neurosurgery on May 15th at 7pm!
Sign up below before the the deadline to confirm your spot>>>>>>
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Michael McPoon retweeted
Important message below but infuriating #AI field has to 'discover' this rather than being guided by long-standing stats literature
eg, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
by @GSCollins says:
'Categorising continuous predictors is ... inefficient & should not be used in model development'
AI models perform better when trained on underlying measurements rather than the associated diagnoses, because dichotomizing data loses information that is useful in training AI models. Read the Case Study by @amey_vrudhula, BS, et al.: nejm.ai/3PjiqeI
ALT Case Study The Impact of Task Set-up in Algorithm Design: Regression versus Classification Figure 1. Classification versus Regression Model Calibration.