Clinical reasoning difficulties: a taxonomy for clinical teachers.

Background: Clinical reasoning is the cornerstone of medical practice. To date, there is no established framework regarding clinical reasoning difficulties, how to identify them, and how to remediate them.

Aim: To identify the most common clinical reasoning difficulties as they present in residents' patient encounters, case summaries, or medical notes.

[Creation and implementation of a remediation tool in a family medicine residency program].

Problem Being Addressed: As is true in most postgraduate medical education programs, about 10% of the residents in the family medicine residency program at Université de Montréal encounter considerable difficulties in developing their skills.

Objective Of Program: In order to more adequately support the program's teachers in diagnosing these difficulties and in designing, planning, and following up on a remediation strategy, the Residency Program Evaluation Committee devised a tool consisting of a sample remediation plan and a guide to its use.

Program Description: The remediation tool consists of 2 documents.

Risk factors for oral human papillomavirus in adults infected and not infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

Background And Objectives: To investigate in a cross-sectional study the determinants of oral human papillomavirus infection in 287 individuals who are sexually active.

Goal: To assess prevalence as well as risk factors for oral human papillomavirus infection.

Study Design: One hundred seventy-eight human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive (158 men and 20 women) and 109 human immunodeficiency virus-negative (73 men and 36 women) individuals were recruited consecutively from sexually transmitted disease-human immunodeficiency virus clinics and gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics.