Best Practices in Patient Education: Medical Students' Perceptions and Implementations.

Effective patient education can help achieve better clinical outcomes, especially when a patient is managing a chronic illness. Despite patient education being an important skill in the professional formation of physicians, little is known about medical students' perceptions and implementations of such strategies. After completing a chronic illness educational module, second-year medical students were asked to rate the importance of specific patient education strategies and to assess their use of said strategies in the module's project assignment.

Airborne Exposure of the Cornea to PM Induces Oxidative Stress and Disrupts Nrf2 Mediated Anti-Oxidant Defenses.

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of whole-body animal exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) with an aerodynamic diameter of <10 μm (PM) in the mouse cornea and in vitro. C57BL/6 mice were exposed to control or 500 µg/m PM for 2 weeks. In vivo, reduced glutathione (GSH) and malondialdehyde (MDA) were analyzed.