Taking Humanism Back to the Bedside

Taking Humanism Back to the Bedside.

After attending The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s “Barriers to Sustaining Humanism in Medicine” symposium in 1996, Steve Miller and Richard Sarkin proposed a Traveling Fellows program for the foundation. The program was approved, and Steve and Rich served as the program’s 2 Traveling Fellows until their untimely death on October 19, 2004. Steve and Rich, both Council on Medical Student Education ...

Coronary microembolization: from bedside to bench and back to bedside.

Coronary microembolization from the erosion or rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque occurs spontaneously in acute coronary syndromes and iatrogenically during percutaneous coronary interventions. Typical consequences of coronary microembolization are microinfarcts with an inflammatory response, contractile dysfunction, and reduced coronary reserve. Apart from transient elevations of c...

Taking Computing Back to School

In this paper, we discuss the use of a kind of videoconferencing technology generally referred to as an “Access Grid” to connect universities with local schools and colleges. We report on successful trials of the Open Source form of this videoconferencing technology that are part of the “Taking Computing back to school” project due to be completed in July. The project is part-sponsored by both ...

From bedside to bench and back again.

Back to basics: tackling the challenges to bedside teaching

Correspondence: rizwan Dewji Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK tel +44 020 7589 5111 Email [email protected] Dear Editor In recent times, there has been a declining trend in bedside teaching as part of the medical teaching curriculum. It is clear that this fundamental issue presents a potential barrier to the development of both curren...