More health care organizations are training physicians to talk to seriously ill patients about their goals, values — and prognoses — while there’s time to spare.
For all the talk about how 20-somethings desire and need learning experiences, the opposite is also true. There’s plenty to learn from them — and from how they learn.
The classic domains of educational objectives take into consideration the student’s “whole being” by including cognitive goals, affective goals and conative goals. Training programs throughout your practice will become more effective if you deliberat...
Of interest to physician leaders, this approach could lead to reduced costs in labor and diagnostic testing, with no significant differences in quality and safety, according to studies.
When a physician finds himself on the other side of the doctor-patient equation, it serves as a reminder that saying the proper things matter at every moment. Good intentions sometimes miss the mark.