A novel curriculum for the Same-Sex Marriage Act and Patient Right to Autonomy Act (SMPRA) module based on two new laws in Taiwan: a mixed-methods study.

Background: The establishment of laws has had a tremendous impact on holistic medical care. The Patient Right to Autonomy (PRA) Act and the Same-Sex Marriage Act have been passed in Taiwan, and both have sparked intense societal debate. The Same-Sex Marriage Act and PRA Act (SMPRA) teaching module was created for the Gender, Medicine, and Law (GML) course of the medical curriculum.

Fostering guardians for frontline medical disputes: a government-led medical dispute mediator training program in Taiwan.

Background: Mediation is increasingly used for medical dispute resolution, and the particularity of such mediation necessitates specialized training. In response to the promotion of compulsory mediation ahead of a legislation in Taiwan, we invited experts with an interdisciplinary team to design a case-based mediator training workshop. Our study aimed to investigate the learning outcomes of trainees and analyze their perspectives.

Programme of triple-I mediator education (TIME) to improve medical disputes in clinical settings in Taiwan: a Delphi study.

Objectives: To establish a training programme to cultivate trainee mediation skills through time investment, skill incorporation and formation of in-house mediation services.

Design: A four-round consensus conference was conducted by a number of seasoned experts selected in the manner of purposive sampling to determine core competences and relevant curricula through the modified Delphi process.

Setting: Responses collected from enrolled experts through four rounds of the Delphi process from 11 November 2018 to 17 May 2019.

Developing an innovative medical ethics and law curriculum-constructing a situation-based, interdisciplinary, court-based learning course: a mixed methods study.

Background: Traditional lecture-based medical ethics and law courses deliver knowledge but may not improve students' learning motivation. To bridge this theory-to-practice gap and facilitate students' learning effectiveness, we applied situated-learning theory to design an interdisciplinary court-based learning (CBL) component within the curriculum. Our study aimed to investigate students' learning feedbacks and propose a creative course design.

Association of short sleep duration and trabecular bone score.

Short sleep duration has been found to be associated with bone health deterioration by using bone mineral density (BMD). Only a few attempts have been made to assess the association of sleep duration and bone by utilizing the trabecular bone score (TBS). The aim of this study was to examine the association between sleep duration and TBS from a national database.