Finding the sweet spot: Developing, implementing and evaluating a burn out and compassion fatigue intervention for third year medical trainees.

Medical trainees are at high risk for developing burnout. Introducing trainees to the risks of burnout and supporting identification and proactive responses to their 'warning' signs of compassion fatigue (CF) is critical in building resiliency. The authors developed and evaluated a burnout and CF program for third year trainees at a Canadian Medical School.

Development and Validation of a Set of Palliative Medicine Entrustable Professional Activities: Findings from a Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are routine tasks considered essential to a professional practice. An EPA can serve as a performance-based outcome that a clinical supervisor would progressively entrust a learner to perform.

Objective: Our aim was to identify, develop, and validate a set of EPAs for the palliative medicine discipline.

Oncology residents' perspectives on communication skills and shared decision making.

Shared decision making (SDM) and effective communication are essential components of cancer care. Residents in oncology-related specialties were surveyed about communication skills and SDM. The response rate was 77% (17/22), and 93% stated that communication skills were very important for their specialty.

Analysis of cigarette smoking habits of cancer patients referred to the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre.

Purpose: To review cigarette smoking among patients referred to the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre (NEORCC).

Methods: Database analysis of the smoking history information for patients referred to the NEORCC from 1991-1999 was performed.

Results: Data was available for 15,850 patients and 72.