Recording medical students' encounters with standardized patients using Google Glass: providing end-of-life clinical education.

Problem: Medical education today frequently includes standardized patient (SP) encounters to teach history-taking, physical exam, and communication skills. However, traditional wall-mounted cameras, used to record video for faculty and student feedback and evaluation, provide a limited view of key nonverbal communication behaviors during clinical encounters.

Approach: In 2013, 30 second-year medical students participated in an end-of-life module that included SP encounters in which the SPs used Google Glass to record their first-person perspective.

A novel approach to supporting relationship-centered care through electronic health record ergonomic training in preclerkship medical education.

Problem: How can physicians incorporate the electronic health record (EHR) into clinical practice in a relationship-enhancing fashion ("EHR ergonomics")?

Approach: Three convenience samples of 40 second-year medical students with varying levels of EHR ergonomic training were compared in the 2012 spring semester. All participants first received basic EHR training and completed a presurvey. Two study groups were then instructed to use the EHR during the standardized patient (SP) encounter in each of four regularly scheduled Doctoring (clinical skills) course sessions.

Patient factors associated with failure to diagnose tuberculosis in the emergency department.

Background: Emergency department (ED) presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) can be highly atypical and an ED visit might be the only health care interaction for high-risk patients.

Objective: Our objective was to identify patient factors associated with discharge without a diagnosis of TB during an infectious ED visit.

Methods: The study population consisted of 150 patients from 2000 to 2009 with 190 infectious ED visits.

Medical student training in domestic violence: a comparison of students entering residency training in 1995 and 2001.

Background: As domestic violence (DV) is frequently unrecognized by physicians, efforts to improve education on the topic have been undertaken.

Purpose: To assess changes in medical education about DV.

Methods: Incoming residents from 1995 (N = 52) and 2001 (N = 43) were surveyed regarding education and attitudes about DV.