Lessons Learned Coaching Teachers in Behavior Management: The PBIS Coaching Model.

There is growing interest in coaching as a means of promoting professional development and the use of evidence-based practices in schools. This paper describes the PBIS coaching model used to provide technical assistance for classroom- and school-wide behavior management to elementary schools over the course of three years. This tier-two coaching model was implemented within the context of school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and tested in a 42-school randomized controlled trial.

Online professional networks for physicians: risk management.

Background: The rapidly developing array of online physician-only communities represents a potential extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to physicians. These online communities provide physicians with a new range of controls over the information they process, but use of this social media technology carries some risk.

Questions/purposes: The purpose of this review was to help physicians manage the risks of online professional networking and discuss the potential benefits that may come with such networks.

The internet and the physician-patient relationship.

Background: Since the emergence of the public Internet in the early 1990s, the healthcare industry has been struggling to understand how best to utilize this resource. During the last decade there has been an increase in both the interest and participation by healthcare providers in the Internet space, but many observers continue to push for more development of healthcare resources to better support the provider-patient relationship.

Questions/purposes: This paper will review the historical development of the Internet, the core concepts that have driven the emergence and evolution of the Internet as a mass medium of information exchange, and how the healthcare industry can harness the Internet to improve the provider patient relationship.

Computer-based patient education: observations on effective communication in the clinical setting.

Computer-based patient education materials are becoming more widely used in an attempt to increase the efficacy and efficiency of the delivery of health care. This paper discusses the authors' experiences in designing and implementing interactive multimedia presentations for patient education in an orthopaedic surgery office setting. Content must be chosen carefully to effectively educate without alienating the patient; simple graphics and animation are best for conveying complex medical and surgical concepts.