A one-day communication workshop for internal medicine residents

Teaching the internist to see: effectiveness of a 1-day workshop in bedside ultrasound for internal medicine residents

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence supports the use of bedside ultrasound for core Internal Medicine procedures and increasingly as augmentation of the physical exam. The literature also supports that trainees, both medical students and residents, can acquire these skills. However, there is no consensus on training approach. AIM To implement and study the effectiveness of a high-yield and ...

Improving communication skills--a randomized controlled behaviorally oriented intervention study for residents in internal medicine.

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether patient-centered communication skills can be taught to residents in Internal Medicine by using a time-limited behaviorally oriented intervention. METHOD Residents working at the Department of Internal Medicine were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG; N = 19) or a control group (CG; N = 23). In addition to 6 hours of standard medical education per ...

A One - Day Workshop for Teaching Cognitive Systems Engineering Skills

Personal health care of internal medicine residents

INTRODUCTION Medical residents, as part of their job to balance the demands of their work with caring for themselves so as to be mentally, emotionally, and physically sound to stay clinically competent. While regulatory and legislative attempts at limiting medical resident work hours have materialized but have yet to attain passage, there are fairly little data looking into how residents cope u...

Program of 2015 Dpd Workshop Day One

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization of partial differential equations. I will present SPH discretization of the stochastic and deterministic Navier-Stokes and Advection-Diffusion-Reaction equations, implementation of various boundary conditions, and time integration of the SPH equations, and discuss applications of the SPH method for m...