A Tale of Two Countries: Innovation and Collaboration Aimed at Changing the Culture of Medicine in Uruguay.

This is a case study of a program to address professionalism at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. We describe a five-year ongoing international collaboration. Relevant characteristics of the context, the program components, activities, and results were analyzed.

Effects of gendered behavior on testosterone in women and men.

Testosterone is typically understood to contribute to maleness and masculinity, although it also responds to behaviors such as competition. Competition is crucial to evolution and may increase testosterone but also is selectively discouraged for women and encouraged for men via gender norms. We conducted an experiment to test how gender norms might modulate testosterone as mediated by two possible gender→testosterone pathways.

Use of interactive theater and role play to develop medical students' skills in breaking bad news.

Creative arts have been increasingly implemented in medical education. This study investigated the use of interactive theater and role play with professional actors in teaching breaking bad news to medical students. The objectives were to explore the contexts, approaches, experiences, and reactions in giving and receiving bad news.

Increasing patient acceptance of medical student participation: using interactive theatre for faculty development.

Background: Interactive theatre (IT) has been used to train faculty the skills and strategies to address challenging dynamics in educational settings.

Purpose: This study described the development, implementation, and evaluation of an IT approach to improve preceptors' skills for increasing patients' acceptance of medical student participation in clinical care.

Methods: Focus groups were conducted with faculty, residents, medical students, and clinic staff to discuss issues related to patients declining medical student participation.

Use of interactive theater for faculty development in multicultural medical education.

Background: The development of critical consciousness, anchored in principles of social justice, is an essential component of medical education.

Aim: In order to assist faculty instructors in facilitating small-group discussions on potentially contentious issues involving race, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class, a faculty development workshop was created.

Methods: The workshop used 'Forum Theater' techniques in which the audience was directly involved in determining the course of a simulated classroom discussion and conflict.