Breaking Bad News: A Randomized Trial Assessing Resident Performance After Novel Video Instruction.

Introduction Delivering bad news to patients is an essential skill for physicians, which is often developed through patient encounters. Residents in our program participate in objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) on an annual basis to evaluate their skills in these scenarios. Our objectives were to develop an educational video and determine if an educational video provided to residents prior to OSCEs would improve performance.

Developing Dietetic Students' Confidence in Multicultural Communication through Flipped Learning.

In a Master of Dietetics program, cultural competence was originally taught with lectures of cultural food practices. Course evaluations reflected that students wanted more opportunities to practice multicultural communication skills whereas lecturers felt that students' personal inquiry of cultural competence could be strengthened. This study explores whether the combination of self-directed pre-class learning and in-class activities through flipped learning could address these instructional issues.

Implementation of technician-driven medication therapy management program in community pharmacies.

Objectives: Pharmacists have reported barriers in implementing medication therapy management (MTM) services into community pharmacy workflow. A community pharmacy grocery chain created an MTM training program with detailed workflow manual and templates intended as a turnkey operation for MTM implementation. To expand the use of this program, 20 community pharmacies were trained in January 2017.

Dynamic response due to behind helmet blunt trauma measured with a human head surrogate.

A Human Head Surrogate has been developed for use in behind helmet blunt trauma experiments. This human head surrogate fills the void between Post-Mortem Human Subject testing (with biofidelity but handling restrictions) and commercial ballistic head forms (with no biofidelity but ease of use). This unique human head surrogate is based on refreshed human craniums and surrogate materials representing human head soft tissues such as the skin, dura, and brain.

Text-to-speech technology effects on reading rate and comprehension by adults with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: This study's purpose was to examine the comprehension, rate and perceptions and reading preferences of adults with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) when reading passages with and without computerized text-to-speech (TTS) support.

Design And Methods: Nine adults with severe TBI read 24 passages in two conditions: with and without TTS support. The researchers compared reading rate and comprehension accuracy across conditions.