PATHA's vision for transgender healthcare under the current health reforms.

Aim: The Aotearoa New Zealand healthcare system does not adequately meet the needs of transgender people. Due to healthcare reforms and increases in funding and awareness of transgender health, the Ministry of Health has met with the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) to discuss ways to improve the healthcare system. We developed a vision for a transgender healthcare document to enable a process for our members to collaborate and to increase transparency about what advice PATHA has provided to the Ministry.

Comparing the influence of 'describing findings to the examiner' or 'examining as in usual practice' on the students' performance and assessors' judgements during physical examination skills assessment.

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Background: Within assessment of physical examination skills, two approaches are common: "Describing Findings" (students comment throughout); and examining as "Usual Practice" (students only report findings at the end).

Improving the content of feedback.

Background: Feedback, although an important element of skills teaching, is not well regarded by students. This lack of regard may be perpetuated by the differing expectations of tutors and learners, by the weakness of the process and by the apparent irrelevance of its content to learners. We contend that the content of feedback is critical, and has previously been neglected.

The haemangioblast generates haematopoietic cells through a haemogenic endothelium stage.

It has been proposed that during embryonic development haematopoietic cells arise from a mesodermal progenitor with both endothelial and haematopoietic potential called the haemangioblast. A conflicting theory instead associates the first haematopoietic cells with a phenotypically differentiated endothelial cell that has haematopoietic potential (that is, a haemogenic endothelium). Support for the haemangioblast concept was initially provided by the identification during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation of a clonal precursor, the blast colony-forming cell (BL-CFC), which gives rise to blast colonies with both endothelial and haematopoietic components.