Teaching

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Teaching communications and professionalism through writing and humanities: reflections of ten years of experience.

Both professionalism and interpersonal communication are core competencies for emergency medicine residents as well as residents from other specialties. The authors describe a weekly, small-group seminar lasting one year for emergency medicine residents ...
David P Sklar, David Doezema, Steve McLaughlin, Deborah Helitzer (Acad Emerg Med, 200211)
teaching-communications-professionalism-writing-humanities.asp

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Effect of an educational intervention about breastfeeding on the knowledge, confidence, and behaviors of pediatric resident physicians.

OBJECTIVE: Breastfeeding is the preferred nutrition for infants, but many pediatricians report inadequate training to advise mothers who breastfeed. This study was designed to examine the effect of an educational intervention on pediatric residents ...
Karin M Hillenbrand, Pamela G Larsen (Pediatrics, 200211)
effect-educational-intervention-breastfeeding-knowledge-confidence.asp

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Cross-year peer tutoring experience in a medical school: conditions and outcomes for student tutors.

AIMS: To examine the features of cross-year peer tutoring and to explore their relationships to learners characteristics and educational outcomes from the student-tutor perspective. METHOD: The records of 447 final year medical students were examined to ...
Dejano T Sobral (Med Educ, 200211)
cross-year-peer-tutoring-experience-medical-school-conditions.asp

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What is effective supervision and how does it happen? A critical incident study.

OBJECTIVES: To identify the key features of supervision from the perspectives of educational supervisors and specialist registrars. DESIGN: Critical incident study. Telephone interviews were conducted with selected informants representing a range of ...
David Cottrell, Sue Kilminster, Brian Jolly, Janet Grant (Med Educ, 200211)
effective-supervision-happen-critical-incident-study.asp

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Breaking bad news in obstetrics and gynecology: educational conference for resident physicians.

To educate the Obstetrics and Gynecology residents about how to conduct conversations about poor prognoses, a panel discussion was scheduled, with patient-educators teaching about their experiences receiving bad news. The resident physicians reported ...
J Romm (Arch Women Ment Health, 200211)
breaking-bad-news-obstetrics-gynecology-educational-conference.asp

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Toward a national consensus: teaching radiobiology to radiation oncology residents.

PURPOSE: The ASTRO Joint Working Group on Radiobiology Teaching, a committee composed of members having affiliations with several national radiation oncology and biology-related societies and organizations, commissioned a survey designed to address ...
Elaine M Zeman, Joseph R Dynlacht, Barry S Rosenstein, Mark W Dewhirst, (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 200211)
toward-national-consensus-teaching-radiobiology-radiation-oncology.asp

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Educational reform: problem-based learning at Chang Gung University, an overview.

Problem-based learning is an educational method characterized by utilization of problems involving patients as a context for students to learn problem-solving skills and acquire knowledge about basic and clinical science. It is a core curriculum in the ...
Wen-Jin Cherng (Chang Gung Med J, 200211)
educational-reform-problem-based-learning-chang-gung-university.asp

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Covert communication in classrooms, clinics, courtrooms, and cubicles.

Interpersonal expectancy effects refer to the phenomena whereby one persons expectation for another persons behavior comes to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The author examines the history and diversity of this area of inquiry, showing that the ...
Robert Rosenthal (Am Psychol, 200211)
covert-communication-classrooms-clinics-courtrooms-cubicles.asp

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Conflicting perspectives on shamans and shamanism: points and counterpoints.

Shamans communities grant them privileged status to attend to those groups psychological and spiritual needs. Shamans claim to modify their attentional states and engage in activities that enable them to access information not ordinarily attainable by ...
Stanley C Krippner (Am Psychol, 200211)
conflicting-perspectives-shamans-shamanism-points-counterpoints.asp

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A turn-key transportable eye-tracking instrument for clinical assessment.

This paper describes a combined instrument (eye tracker and target generator, both head mounted, with integrated data analysis) that tests parameters of saccadic eye movement and fixation control to give insight into the status of functional brain ...
Klaus Hartnegg, Burkhart Fischer (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200211)
turn-key-transportable-eye-tracking-instrument-clinical-assessment.asp