Teaching mindfulness-based stress management techniques to medical learners through simulation

Teaching medical learners to appreciate “difficult” patients.

During their training, medical students and residents will meet many types of patients, and not all of them will be easy to deal with. Some will be dependent, self-destructive, vague, or noncompliant. Each time our learners meet these patients, they will experience their own range of emotions, from anger to frustration to uncertainty. As teachers and experienced clinicians, we often take for gr...

Teaching stress management techniques to a schizophrenic patient.

This paper describes a stress management training program used with a 26-year-old schizophrenic man attending an outpatient day care program. In a seven-session program the patient was taught to use various techniques in muscle relaxation and biofeedback to decrease anxiety and to cope with stress. The patient's improvement on 7 of the 20 items of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory demonstrated ...

Teaching Mindfulness Techniques to Nursing Students for Stress Reduction and Self-care

Mindfulness-based stress reduction lowers psychological distress in medical students.

BACKGROUND Medical students confront significant academic, psychosocial, and existential stressors throughout their training. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an educational intervention designed to improve coping skills and reduce emotional distress. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the MBSR intervention in a prospective, nonrandomized, cohort...

Teaching Word Stress to Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners Through Internet-Based Video Lessons

The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EF...