A cost-effective program to give video/audiotape feedback

How to give and receive 
feedback effectively

Giving and receiving effective feedback are skills that are central in healthcare settings http://ow.ly/zZ1C30eVrH1.

How to give an effective presentation.

Introduction When asked for a definition of CME (continuing medical education), many physicians will describe a short course with instructors presenting didactic lectures to large groups of physicians sitting for long hours in a hotel conference room in rows of narrow tables. The lecture is the staple format of CME course instruction. Lectures have been viewed as a poor method to promote the de...

Effective use of real-life events as training strategy in a nursing degree program for give hope to cancer patients

Evidence-based strategies that help office-based teachers give effective feedback.

(Fam Med 2005;37(9):617-9.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Alison Dobbie, MD, of the University of Kansas and James Tysinger, PhD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio review current reports in the literature on the need for feedback and on effective strategies to give feedback. Based on these reports, they offer suggestions on how the office-based teacher can...

Could a federal program to promote influenza vaccination among elders be cost-effective?

BACKGROUND Influenza-related mortality predominately and disproportionately impacts the elderly. Rates of annual influenza vaccination among the elderly are approximately 65%, far below the Healthy People 2010 target of 90%. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of a 10-year federal program to promote influenza vaccine, intended to increase vaccination rates among persons > or = 65 years old. M...