Teaching and learning in medicine
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As medical students become more active in online social networking (OSN), there are increasing concerns regarding violations of patient privacy and a lack of professionalism. ⋯ Residents say they were not prepared to mentor students without additional guidance but were more confident than faculty members that they had the knowledge to do so.
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The field of health literacy has closely examined the readability of written health materials to optimize patient comprehension. Few studies have examined spoken communication in a way that is comparable to analyses of written communication. ⋯ In this study, physicians spoke significantly more and used more complex language than the patients.
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Medicine has struggled to integrate a new generation of social media technologies. Rather than focusing on the promise of these emerging tools, the academic literature is replete with admonishments of how social media pose a danger to medical professionals, and guidelines regarding social media are written with expectations of misuse rather than consideration of positive application. ⋯ The views and practices of current trainees can provide important insight into the proactive role social media can play in the delivery of more effective health care during an era in which social media usage is invariably increasing for medical professionals and patients.
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Standardized patients (SPs) portray emotionally intense roles that can have unintended deleterious effects including burnout. ⋯ Education to enhance mindfulness and positive reappraisal offers a way to offset the adverse effects of portraying intense emotional patient experiences.
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Simulation is an effective tool for teaching medical students in cardiac arrest management. ⋯ Students in a modified longitudinal simulation-based ACLS curriculum demonstrated better proficiency in learning ACLS compared to a traditional curriculum.