Teaching Medical Students Clinical Anesthesia.

There are many reasons for evaluating our approach and improving our teaching of America's future doctors, whether they become anesthesiologists (recruitment) or participate in patient management in the perioperative period (general patient care). Teaching medical students the seminal aspects of any medical specialty is a continual challenge. Although no definitive curricula or single clinical approach has been defined, certain key features can be ascertained from clinical experience and the literature.

Role-modelling in the operating room: medical student observations of exemplary behaviour.

Context: Training future doctors to develop an appropriate professional persona is an important goal of medical student education and residency training. Most medical education research paradigms on professionalism have focused largely on lapses (e.g.

Use of the Synera patch for local anesthesia before vascular access procedures: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Objective: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, paired study compared the Synera patch, a drug delivery device comprised of an eutectic mixture of lidocaine (70 mg) and tetracaine (70 mg) whose onset is accelerated by a controlled heating device, with placebo. The objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of Synera in inducing local anesthesia before a vascular access procedure.

Design: Before the vascular access procedures, adult volunteers randomly received a concurrent application of Synera and placebo to the right and left antecubital surfaces.