No One Ever Told Me I had to Teach This Stuff! (P17)

I wish someone had told me …

Regular retinal examinations are essential for identifying diabetic retinopathy and applying timely laser treatment before significant vision is lost. This is known as retinal screening and is a key part of the care of all diabetes patients. However, non-attendance at eye clinic for screening has been recognised as an independent risk factor for poor visual outcome from diabetic retinopathy.1 I...

Destination memory: stop me if I've told you this before.

Everyone has recounted a story or joke to someone only to experience a nagging feeling that they may already have told this person this information. Remembering to whom one has told what, an ability that we term destination memory, has been overlooked by researchers despite its important social ramifications. Using a novel paradigm, we demonstrate that destination memory is more fallible than s...

"I was told that my first duty was to forget physiology, which had no relation to medicine".

THERE HAS BEEN much recent commentary on integration in health care professional education (6). This commentary is of importance to physiology education as integration often touches on integration between preclinical and clinical sciences. There are different forms of integration, from horizontal to vertical to spiral, and different theories underpin our thinking about integration, from constru...

Educational strategies to reduce diagnostic error: can you teach this stuff?

Diagnostic error typically involves both system-related and cognitive root causes. Educational interventions are proposed to address both of these dimensions: In regard to system-related origins, education should focus on communication skills, including handoffs. In regard to cognitive shortcomings, educators need to consider both normative approaches to decision making, as well as the 'flesh a...

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