Improving the feedback process in medical education

Feedback in clinical medical education.

In the setting of clinical medical education, feedback refers to information describing students' or house officers' performance in a given activity that is intended to guide their future performance in that same or in a related activity. It is a key step in the acquisition of clinical skills, yet feedback is often omitted or handled improperly in clinical training. This can result in important...

Feedback is good or bad? Medical residents’ points of view on feedback in clinical education

Introduction: Feedback is very important in education and can help quality in the training process and orient the trainees in clinical contexts. This study aimed to assess the residents’ points of view about feedback in clinical education at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.Methods: The sample of this study included 170 medical residents attending medical workshops in Shiraz University of ...

Improving Health by Investing in Medical Education

The antibody-mediated targeted delivery of cytokines to sites of disease is a promising avenue for cancer therapy, but it is largely unexplored for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions. Using both radioactive and fluorescent techniques, the human monoclonal antibodies L19 and G11 (specific to two markers of angiogenesis that are virtually undetectable in normal adult tissues) were f...

Improving the medical decision-making process.

Commentary: Improving The Medical Decision-Making Process

I want to argue the case for the evaluative clinical sciences and the need to support a national program to assess the outcomes of medical care. For too long, and at peril to the welfare of patients and the public as well, we have neglected that essential part of medical science whose job it is to establish the validity of clinical theory and help physicians and patients reach the right decisio...