Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/664769 | DOI Listing |
BMC Med Educ
December 2024
Graduate Program in Child and Adolescent Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background: Effective communication with patients and their families is a fundamental skill for medical students to cultivate during their undergraduate training. However, communicating with pediatric patients presents unique challenges. This study investigated the perceptions, attitudes, and confidence levels of undergraduate medical students regarding communication skills in pediatrics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Med Open
December 2022
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA 21205.
Background: Compared to the general population, physicians have been shown to be less engaged in civic participation and less likely to vote. However, perspectives of current trainees on health advocacy remain under-explored.
Objective: To investigate perspectives on a physician led voter registration initiative and identify current beliefs of physicians in training and medical students regarding physician health advocacy.
J Gen Intern Med
February 2023
UT Health San Antonio-Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, USA.
Introduction: Providers' communication skills have a significant impact on patients' satisfaction. Improved patients' satisfaction has been positively correlated with various healthcare and financial outcomes. Patients' satisfaction in the inpatient setting is measured using the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Med Educ
June 2021
Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12401 E 17th Avenue, Mailstop F782, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Background: There are limited competency-based educational curricula for transitions of care education (TOC) for internal medicine (IM) residency programs. The University of Colorado implemented a virtual interdisciplinary conference call, TEAM (Transitions Expectation and Management), between providers on the inpatient Acute Care of the Elder (ACE) unit and the outpatient Seniors Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital. Residents rotating on the ACE unit participated in weekly conferences discussing Seniors Clinic patients recently discharged, or currently hospitalized, to address clinical concerns pertaining to TOC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev
March 2021
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, Box 49, East Meadow, NY, 11554, USA.
Introduction: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are vulnerable to adverse-drug events from cardiovascular drugs.
Aim: To evaluate awareness and knowledge for appropriate dose adjustment of cardiovascular drugs in CKD patients among Internal Medicine house-staff (IMHS).
Methods: Cross-sectional convenience sample survey in Fall 2015 among 341 IMHS from multiple academic institutions in the suburban New York City metropolitan area.
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!