Impact and educational outcomes of a small group self-directed teaching strategy in a clinical neuroscience curriculum.

The complexity of the material being taught in clinical neuroscience within the medical school curriculum requires creative pedagogies to teach medical students effectively. Many clinical teaching strategies have been developed and are well described to address these challenges. However, only a few have been evaluated to determine their impact on the performance of students studying clinical neuroscience.

Pharmacological thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke treatment: Gender differences in clinical risk factors.

Background: In a stroke population, women have a worse outcome than men when untreated. In contrast, there is no significant difference in treated patients. In this study, we determined whether clinical variables represent a promising approach to assist in the evaluation of gender differences in a stroke population.