Play-back theatre, theatre laboratory, and role-playing: new tools in investigating the patient-physician relationship in the context of continuing medical education courses.

Aim: The aim of this study was to report on the validation of a role-playing approach, using play-back and theatre laboratory in the context of a continuing medical education (CME) course on predialysis and transplantation, to discuss the patient-physician relationship.

Methods: The course was developed with the help of a theatre director. The role-playing 2-day course was designed to be highly interactive for a small group (15-20 participants), based on a core of case reports (dialysis, transplantation, and return to dialysis after graft failure).

Continuing education in medicine: a useful tool for nurses' empowerment in renal transplantation.

Background: Continuing Education in Medicine (CEM) underlines the importance of updates and information for the health care team. Our aim was to describe the organization and results of a CEM course "educate to organ donation" that involved the nursing team in an educational experience with high school students. The course consists of theory (4 hours; the physician-patient relationship, the educational role of the nurse, the teaching policy, checklist, and results of a school education program) and practice (10 hours; the attendants join the teaching team in the classrooms and in the plenary session).

Making a movie on kidney transplantation: a medical school graduation thesis to explain kidney transplantation from students to students.

The aim of this study was to report on the production and the opinions of a video movie on transplantation and organ donation. The video was developed by a medical school student with the help of the students and teachers of a high school for applied arts. For this task, the making of the video was included in the high school program of the participating class.

Teenagers' point of view on living donor kidney transplantation: Cinderella or princess?

Unlabelled: Living kidney donation is an important clinical option, encountering different fortunes in the world.

Aim: To analyse the opinions of a large subset of older teenagers attending high school (7999 students, median age 18) on different aspects of living kidney transplantation.

Methods: Analysis of semistructured questionnaires submitted within an educational campaign on dialysis and transplantation in the high schools of Torino and its county (about 2,000,000 inhabitants).