This case demonstrates the significance, and ongoing relevance of mycobacterial infections, especially in patients who have recently been started on immunosuppression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Implicit attitudes are outside of conscious awareness and are thought to affect automatic responses outside of one's deliberate control, with the potential to impact physician-patient relationships.
Objective: To measure the nature and extent of implicit biases towards depression in internal medicine and psychiatry residents.
Design: Descriptive and comparative study.
Background: Physician biases toward mental conditions such as depression have been shown to adversely affect medical outcomes.
Objective: To explore the relationship between residents' explicit bias toward depressed patients and their clinical skills on a cardiac case during an objective structured clinical exam (OSCE).
Design: Prospective parallel randomized controlled study.