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"Posterdocuments.com was born out of the need to help people access posters from academic conferences for viewing and printing at their convenience. Search our site by conference name, author name, or area of specialty (e.g. diabetes)."

"A simple teaching technique that helps students learn; now there's something few teachers would pass up! This particular technique involves a four-question set that gets students actively responding to the material they are studying. They analyze, reflect, relate, and question via these four prompts:"

"The authors present principles derived from three basic theories of human cognition that may help to guide clinicians' instruction of parents and patients."

"We are seeing more patients with fewer doctors in the United States; our time spent at the hospital is limited by duty hours; there are increasing demands on documentation for medico legal purposes. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much of the horizon to fix these issues. So what are we to do? Here are some things that may be helpful and things that work for me:"

"Being aware of which communication style should be adopted when facing more difficult patients is important for physicians; it can help prevent patient reactions of dissatisfaction, mistrust, or non-adherence that can be detrimental to the process of care."

"Growing up in a family run care home, Andy Bradley discusses how his experiences with the elderly have helped him to better understand how we can provide compassionate care within our institutions."

"There are three types of empathy (Goleman, 2007): Cognitive: knowing how another person feels and what they might be thinking Emotional: physically feeling what another person is feeling Compassionate: not only understanding a person's situation and feeling with them, but being moved to help them"

"Here, I would like to draw on my experience as a learner as well as an educator, together with the available literature, to draw up a simple 12-step teaching strategy that should help the ward round serve the dual purpose of teaching medical students and junior doctors."

"This report focuses on how clinical teachers can facilitate the learning process to help learners make the transition from being diagnostic novices to becoming expert clinicians"

"A structured residency-based curriculum facilitates resident demonstration of SBP and practice-based learning and improvement. Residents gain knowledge and skills though this enterprise and hospitals gain access to trainees who help to solve ongoing problems and meet accreditation requirements."

"Our experience with the calculators shows that it helps surgeons improve the quality of care they provide their patients because it improves shared decision making and patient-centered informed consent."

"Those planning medical curricula would be wise to engage their colleagues from philosophy and educational psychology to help elucidate these ideas and to learn how to construct longitudinal mentorship programs. The conceptual basis of these programs need to acknowledge that the boundary between being and doing is porous and that, through a maieutic process, mentors can catalyze and guide personal transformations in learners.

"In a larger context, however, such activities may help to enhance our ability to interpret stories, and to see patients in the context of their own story, which is what makes the care of patients a human and humane endeavour. "

"If you are considering developing this approach with and for colleagues for whom you have educational responsibility, it might help to consider the following 12 questions."

This page provides help if you want online and distance learning health degree programs that will prepare you for a career in health and medical professions.

A health care administration degree provides the skills and knowledge that you require to help ensure that your organization has strong  management and administration.  This page gives you more information about what is involved in studying online masters and PhDs in health care administration, where you can study them, and the job and salary prospects after completion.

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The NNT offers a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact on one person. The concept is statistical, but intuitive, for we know that not everyone is helped by a medicine or intervention - some benefit, some are harmed, and some are unaffected. The NNT tells us how many of each.

Guideline Objective(s) * To provide helpful guidance to primary care providers serving individuals who are homeless * To contribute to improvements in both quality of care and quality of life for these patients