Reflective practice by health professions educators to enhance learning and teaching: AMEE Guide No. 166.

Reflective practice is an essential aspect of the professional development of all health professions educators, with the intention to enhance both learning and teaching. This Guide presents an overview of reflective practice for educators and provides a practical and developmental reflective practice approach for health professions educators. The importance of structured thinking frameworks to stimulate greater understanding of both learning and teaching situations is highlighted.

Incivility in healthcare: the impact of poor communication.

Incivility is a common issue within healthcare in the UK and internationally. Experienced by at least one-third of staff within the UK National Health Service, incivility has been demonstrated to have significant negative implications on both patient care and healthcare staff. These include contributing to direct medical errors, diagnostic inaccuracy and team communication, with a large associated cost burden, while for staff it has significant negative impacts on retention, productivity and morale.

Dyspraxia in clinical education: a review.

Background: The stereotype of the student with dyspraxia as 'clumsy and disorganised' may cause clinical teachers to be concerned about the student's performance in a clinical environment; however, if it is understood that dyspraxic students possess many strengths, as well as weaknesses, it may be that some stereotypical myths will be dispelled and more effective support offered to them. This review considers research surrounding the experiences of students and health professionals with dyspraxia within higher education (HE), alongside the personal experiences of EW, in order to inform the development of clinical teachers with respect to their support for learners with dyspraxia.

Findings: A literature review found five relevant articles.

Widening participation in medicine: what, why and how?

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Widening Participation (WP) is 'the process of encouraging underrepresented socioeconomic groups to apply for Higher Education'.

Bayesian decision procedures for dose-escalation based on evidence of undesirable events and therapeutic benefit.

In this paper, Bayesian decision procedures are developed for dose-escalation studies based on bivariate observations of undesirable events and signs of therapeutic benefit. The methods generalize earlier approaches taking into account only the undesirable outcomes. Logistic regression models are used to model the two responses, which are both assumed to take a binary form.

Survivin as a therapeutic target for radiation sensitization in lung cancer.

Expression of survivin is elevated in most malignancies, especially in radiation-resistant cell lines. In this study, we investigated how radiation affects survivin expression in primary endothelial cells as well as in malignant cell lines. We found that 3 Gy significantly reduced survivin protein level in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) but not in tumor cell lines.

Constitutive expression of BCL-X(L) in the T lineage attenuates collagen-induced arthritis in Bcl-X(L) transgenic mice.

Objective: To determine if inhibition of T cell apoptosis through constitutive expression of Bcl-X(L) in the T lineage influences inflammatory arthritis in the mouse collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model.

Methods: The incidence and severity of arthritis were quantified in Bcl-X(L) transgenic mice and nontransgenic littermates after immunization with type II collagen (CII). To correlate T cell responses with disease phenotype, antigen-specific T cell proliferation was measured by (3)H-thymidine incorporation.