Medical Education Through Distance Learning: How Does it Work?

Learning under stress: how does it work?

The effects of stress on learning and memory are not always clear: both facilitating and impairing influences are described in the literature. Here we propose a unifying theory, which states that stress will only facilitate learning and memory processes: (i) when stress is experienced in the context and around the time of the event that needs to be remembered, and (ii) when the hormones and tra...

medical education: how does it flourish as a scientific discipline?

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Medical education: how does it flourish as a scientific discipline?

The bishop's vicar: how does it work?

Sr. Weisenbeck is president and chairwoman, leadership council, Congreation of the Sisters of theThird Order of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, La Crosse, Wis. Adiocesan bishop may assign his oversight for particular apostolic activities to persons called episcopal vicars. Canon 476 articulates the conditions for appointment, and the vicar's duties and authority. "As often as the good gover...

Projective Identification: How Does It Work

Projective identification is a clinical enactment and part of the common currency of the psychoanalytic process that occurs especially around the difficult nodal points at the deepest levels of our psychic organization that seem resistant to change. Neurophysiological studies of pre-symbolic, unconscious emotional systems offer a biological explanation for the clinical experience of resistance ...