BACKGROUND Problem-based learning is recognised as promoting integration of knowledge and fostering a deeper approach to life-long learning, but is associated with significant resource implications. In order to encourage second year undergraduate medical students to integrate their pharmacological knowledge in a professionally relevant clinical context, with limited staff resources, we develope...

INTRODUCTION The use of facilitators for quality improvement in general practice has accelerated during the past decade. As general practitioners (GPs) or pharmacists have typically been used as facilitators, there is a lack of knowledge of how other professionals function as facilitators. This article explores the experiences and assessments of GPs and nurses participating in a project in whic...

Inhibition of Return (IOR) is a difficulty in processing stimuli presented at recently attended locations. IOR is widely believed to facilitate foraging of a visual scene by decreasing the probability that gaze will return to previously fixated locations. However, there is a lack of clear evidence in support of the foraging facilitator hypothesis during scene search. The original R. M. Klein an...

BACKGROUND Solute carriers (SLCs) are membrane bound transporters responsible for the movement of soluble molecules such as amino acids, ions, nucleotides, neurotransmitters and oligopeptides over cellular membranes. At present, there are 395 SLCs identified in humans, where about 40% are still uncharacterized with unknown expression and/or function(s). Here we have studied two uncharacterized ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a voluntary sector based befriending scheme in improving psychological wellbeing and quality of life for family carers of people with dementia. DESIGN Single blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Community settings in East Anglia and London. PARTICIPANTS 236 family carers of people with primary progressive dementia. INTERVENTION Contact wi...

This article examines the influences of situational factors on user behaviour in usability tests. Sixty participants carried out two tasks on a computer-simulated prototype of a mobile phone. Employing a 3 x 2 mixed experimental design, laboratory set-up was varied as a between-subjects variable (presence of facilitator and two non-interactive observers, presence of facilitator or no person pre...

OBJECTIVE To test the impact of physician education and facilitator assisted office system interventions on cancer early detection and preventive services. DESIGN A randomised trial of two interventions alone and in combination. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Physicians in 98 ambulatory care practices in the United States. INTERVENTIONS The education intervention consisted of a day long physician m...