A multistate program to educate physicians

Physicians' intention to educate about emergency contraception.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to examine the intention of academic primary care physicians to educate women about emergency contraception (EC) and whether differences in their intention varies with patient situation, knowledge and attitudes about EC, gender, or specialty. METHODS As part of a larger cross-sectional survey about intention to prescribe EC with 96 faculty physician...

Interventions to Educate Family Physicians to Change Test Ordering

The purpose is to systematically review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to change family physicians' laboratory test-ordering. We searched 15 electronic databases (no language/date limitations). We identified 29 RCTs (4,111 physicians, 175,563 patients). Six studies specifically focused on reducing unnecessary tests, 23 on increasing screening tests. Using Cochrane methodology 48.5% of stud...

The game as an educative pretext: educate and educate oneself in a health formation program

This article is focused on a game-based educative experience, developed with students of the 1 year of the Medicine program of a federal public educational institution. The game was used as a privileged strategy to approach the students’ communication, spontaneity and sensitiveness in the health education process. Through this game, it was possible to approach the theme “the students’ mental he...

A Generic Program for Multistate Protein Design

Some protein design tasks cannot be modeled by the traditional single state design strategy of finding a sequence that is optimal for a single fixed backbone. Such cases require multistate design, where a single sequence is threaded onto multiple backbones (states) and evaluated for its strengths and weaknesses on each backbone. For example, to design a protein that can switch between two speci...

To educate or not to educate? That is the question!