Educational research has demonstrated that asking students to respond to reflection prompts can increase interaction between instructors and students, which in turn can improve both teaching and learning especially in large classrooms. However, administering an instructor’s prompts, collecting the students’ responses, and summarizing these responses for both instructors and students is challeng...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records have the potential to facilitate family history use by primary care physicians (PCPs) to provide personalized care. The objective of this study was to determine whether automated, at-the-visit tailored prompts about family history risk change PCP behavior. METHODS Automated, tailored prompts highlighting familial risk for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, a...

Learning by drawing involves learners construct an integrated verbal and nonverbal representation of the content to-be-learned. Despite considerable studies have investigated the effectiveness of drawing to support students’ comprehension of expository text, much remains unknown about drawing as a generative learning strategy. Specifically, successes of learning-by-drawing might be correlated w...

On 27 August The Observer newspaper in the UK published no less than four articles on allegedly serious dangers associated with the serogroup C meningococcal conjugate vaccine, introduced for routine use in this country about a year ago. First, a page one banner headline (“Meningitis jab deaths ‘cover-up’’’) heralded a report that at least 11 young people had died after receiving the new vaccin...

Analgesia prescribing is fundamental to a patient's journey, affecting length of stay and patient experience. Laminated prompts are used throughout the NHS Foundation Trust to aid doctors prescribing. A baseline questionnaire was carried out to gather doctors' prescribing habits and current ability to convert opioids to their morphine equivalent. Ninety three percent of doctors said they were m...