Training junior faculty to become clinical teachers: The value of personalized coaching.

Junior clinical faculty require institutional support in the acquisition of feedback and clinical supervision skills of trainees. We tested the effectiveness of a personalized coaching versus guided self-reflection format of a faculty development program at improving faculty skills and self-efficacy. Participants were evaluated both before and after the program using a four-station Objective Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE).

Medical students as feedback assessors in a faculty development program: Implications for the future.

: Little is known about simulated students' ability in assessing feedback received in Objective Structured Teaching Encounters (OSTEs). We aimed to assess to which extent students' perceptions matched objective analysis regarding quality of received feedback, to explore what elements of feedback they emphasized and what they learned about feedback.: In this mixed-method study, 43 medical students participated as simulated residents in five OSTEs at Geneva University Hospitals.

Medical students' professional identity development from being actors in an objective structured teaching exercise.

Introduction: Medical students develop professional identity through structured activities and impromptu interactions in various settings. We explored if contributing to an Objective Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE) influenced students' professional identity development.

Methods: University clinical faculty members participated in a faculty development program on clinical supervision.

Combined effects of temperature changes and metal contamination at different levels of biological organization in yellow perch.

In this study, we measured the effects of temperature (9°C, 20°C, and 28°C), metal contamination (cadmium and nickel) and their interaction on yellow perch (Perca flavescens) using liver enzymatic and transcriptomic endpoints and biometric indices. Kidney metal concentrations increased with a rise of temperature. The biometric indices analysed (Fulton condition factor, pyloric cæca, hepatosomatic and gonadosomatic indices) generally decreased with an increase of temperature but not with metal contamination.

Transcriptional response of yellow perch to changes in ambient metal concentrations-A reciprocal field transplantation experiment.

Recent local adaptation to pollution has been evidenced in several organisms inhabiting environments heavily contaminated by metals. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms underlying adaptation to high metal concentrations are poorly understood, especially in fishes. Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) populations from lakes in the mining area of Rouyn-Noranda (QC, Canada) have been faced with metal contamination for about 90 years.