Shared decision making about palliative chemotherapy: A qualitative observation of talk about patients' preferences.

Background: Particularly at the end of life, treatment decisions should be shared and incorporate patients' preferences. This study examines elaboration and preference construction.

Aim: To examine the values, appraisals and preferences that patients express, as well as the oncologists' communicative behaviour that facilitates these expressions in consultations on palliative chemotherapy.

Self-evaluation and peer-feedback of medical students' communication skills using a web-based video annotation system. Exploring content and specificity.

Objective: Self-evaluation and peer-feedback are important strategies within the reflective practice paradigm for the development and maintenance of professional competencies like medical communication. Characteristics of the self-evaluation and peer-feedback annotations of medical students' video recorded communication skills were analyzed.

Method: Twenty-five year 4 medical students recorded history-taking consultations with a simulated patient, uploaded the video to a web-based platform, marked and annotated positive and negative events.

[Trust of Turkish and Arabic ethnic minority patients in their Dutch oncologist].

Objective: To examine the nature of the trust that Turkish and Arabic ethnic minority patients suffering from cancer have in their oncologist, and to explore how this trust is established.

Design: We interviewed 9 cancer patients with Turkish and Arabic backgrounds about the trust they have in their oncologist. Semi-structured qualitative interviews.