"Who's watching?": Exploring patients' acceptance of having their consultations livestreamed for educational purposes.

Shortages of clinical placements are an ever-increasing global challenge. Livestreaming clinical experiences to remotely-located learners shows promise in addressing this challenge. However, little is known about the acceptability of livestreamed clinical experiences for patients.

Livestreaming clinical experience to remotely located learners: A critical narrative review.

Context: Medical education relies on real patient learning (RPL) to provide medical students with essential clinical experience. However, growing demand for clinical placements continues to be a challenge in providing sufficient RPL opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic forced academic institutions to rethink the delivery of traditional clinical training and innovations in online clinical learning experiences, specifically livestreamed clinical experiences, have emerged which show promise in addressing the capacity limitations of traditional placements.

Duration of palliative care before death in international routine practice: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Early provision of palliative care, at least 3-4 months before death, can improve patient quality of life and reduce burdensome treatments and financial costs. However, there is wide variation in the duration of palliative care received before death reported across the research literature. This study aims to determine the duration of time from initiation of palliative care to death for adults receiving palliative care across the international literature.

Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain.

Neuropathic pain in cancer is common and debilitating. It is important to differentiate neuropathic pain from other cancer-related pains as it is associated with worse pain outcomes and requires different treatment strategies. This review summarises recent updates to pain classification, aetiology, pain assessment and current recommendations for treatment in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain.