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"The principles, developed by a committee of nurse leaders and patient advocates, are meant to guide the provider community in developing patient engagement models and quality and safety interventions that support and encourage the patient and family to become partners in their care. The development of the principles, and the organization, is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."

portal to allow patients to share stories and experiences and get support

Series of videos on Aboriginal perspectives of death

"Central to an effective response is a code of conduct that establishes unequivocally the expectation that everyone is entitled to be treated with courtesy, honesty, respect, and dignity. The code must be enforced fairly through a clear and explicit process and applied consistently regardless of rank or station.Creating a culture of respect requires action on many fronts: modeling respectful conduct; educating students, physicians, and nonphysicians on appropriate behavior; conducting performance evaluations to identify those in need of help; providing counseling and training when needed; and supporting frontline changes that increase the sense of fairness, transparency, collaboration, and individual responsibility."

Families are an immense resource in the care, treatment and recovery of individuals with co-occurring mental health and addiction problems. However, they often have limited access to the resources, information and help that they need to be supportive to the ones they love. This six-week online course for health care providers explores the needs of families affected by concurrent disorders as well as the strategies that health care providers can use to empower families and ensure that their experiences are more positive. The recommended pre-requisite for this course is the Concurrent Disorders Core Course.

"AFMC and the Norlien Foundation have partnered to provide funding and support for the development of a suite of e-learning tools on early brain and biological development and addictions for undergraduate medical education. The suite of resources includes virtual patients, a primer (e-textbook), and podcast series. Topics that are addressed include core concepts of early child development, epigenetics, intervention and treatment strategies, and system responses to addiction."

"The Patient Safety Curriculum Guide provides teaching and information tools to support patient safety learning. The Curriculum Guide comprises two parts. Part A is a teachers' guide designed to introduce patient safety concepts to educators. It relates to building capacity for patient safety education, programme planning and design of the courses. Part B provides all-inclusive, ready-to-teach, topic-based patient safety courses that can be used as a whole, or on a per topic basis. There are 11 patient safety topics, each designed to feature a variety of ideas and methods for patient safety learning. "

These study findings have several implications for university-level teaching. First, they support the notion that it is important to "break-up" lectures with periods of active learning, not only because of increased attention during such activities, but also because of the indirect boost in attention that can occur during lecture periods immediately following such activities. Second, these findings should encourage instructors to reflect on their expectations regarding student attention in their classrooms.

"All adults were asked which group is more helpful when they need certain types of information or support: health professionals like doctors and nurses or peers like fellow patients, friends, and family."

"Solid buildings require foundations; sure they are not pretty and no one sees them and they are hard to dig, but it is the foundation that supports all else. "

"There is a growing body of research within specific scientific teaching communities that supports and validates the new approaches to teaching that have been adopted. "

"Nine organizations involved in postgraduate medical education and experts from across Canada have joined together to produce a groundbreaking report outlining pan-Canadian principles, key findings, recommendations and metrics to inform decision-making about resident duty hours across the country. Supported by Health Canada, the final report, Fatigue, Risk and Excellence: Towards a Pan-Canadian Consensus on Resident Duty Hours, includes five principles and detailed recommendations that are intended to outline a path forward that optimizes patient care and training for the 21st century."

"To describe the essential components of the medical model of substance use disorders. To delineate the interviewing skills necessary to screen effectively for substance use and abuse. To understand the high rate of psychiatric and medical co-morbidity and more effectively screen patients for these disorders. To demonstrate skills for evaluating patients' stage of change, readiness to accept the diagnosis, and readiness to undertake behavior change. To clearly and supportively recommend treatment to patients with substance use disorders. To describe the skills required for addiction prevention counseling. To define the skills that help set respectful limits on patient requests for prescription medication. To demonstrate awareness of how physician/clinician attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders impact recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. To demonstrate knowledge of substance use disorder treatment standards and the ability to recommend appropriate referrals."

"Being in the hospital after major surgery is no fun. On top of dealing with pain, patients have uncertainty. They also have to worry about getting all the information they need to support their recovery. That's not always easy in the hospital; things happen quickly and doctors and hospital staff are often really busy. Doctors at Mayo Clinic may have a solution to this issue. They're giving iPads to heart surgery patients to see if a new iPad app can make hospital stays easier and more satisfying."

"This is a new interactive tool commissioned by the Department of Health to support health professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child."

"Of course, cognitive simulation and cognitive rehearsal are important for improving physician performance in any specialty of medicine-surgical and non-surgical alike-no matter what the proportion of cognitive and procedural services. And simulation applications that could support the teaching and assessment of expert judgment would be valuable to medical education programs across all disciplines and throughout the continuum of medical education."

"ACLS Advisor Includes the New AHA ACLS Guidelines. ACLS Advisor helps you learn basic life support and ACLS. The cardiology decision engine advises the exact action that should be performed. Defibrillator energy dosages and resuscitation drug dosages are given."

"The richness of the informal curriculum in a longitudinal rural placement powerfully influenced students' intentions to practise rurally. It provided an important context for learning and evolving notions of professionalism and rural professional identity. This richness could be reinforced by developing formal curricula using educational activities based around service-led and interprofessional learning. To overcome the contextual barriers, the rural workforce development model needs to focus on socialising medical students into rural and remote medicine. More generic issues include student selection, further expansion of structured vocational training pathways that vertically integrate with longitudinal rural placements and the maintenance of rurally focused support throughout postgraduate training."

"We identified five empirically supported intervention principles that should be used to guide and inform intervention and prevention efforts at the early to mid-term stages. These are promoting: 1) a sense of safety, 2) calming, 3) a sense of self- and community efficacy, 4) connectedness, and 5) hope."

"Since the goal of those involved in medical education and patient care is to perform at the highest possible level, we offer twelve practical tips for making the best use of feedback in order to support learners of all levels."