OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility of a quality improvement programme aimed to enhance the client-centeredness, effectiveness and transparency of physiotherapy services by addressing three feasibility domains: (1) acceptability of the programme design, (2) appropriateness of the implementation strategy and (3) impact on quality improvement. DESIGN Mixed methods study. PARTICIPANTS AND S...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. PARTICIPANTS A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated...

Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI) are an increasingly popular tool for selecting entrants to undergraduate degree programs in dentistry in the United Kingdom. This article reports on the use of MMI to select dental students at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, over two successive admissions cycles (2011-12 and 2012-13). MMI provided an efficient means to discriminate between the performan...

Good teachers know their students, for to prepare an appropriate curriculum, they have to address their emotional, motivational, and cognitive needs. Knowing students—for example, Shameer, the author of the introductory quote—poses questions. “Who are our students?” “How can we find out about them and what their needs are?” “How do students understand themselves today as compared to yesterday a...

BACKGROUND Medication reconciliation can reduce medication errors and mortality. With limited availability of clinical pharmacists, it is important to determine the resources that will yield the most complete information about a patient's medication history. OBJECTIVE To identify the most time-efficient sources of information about medication history for use by clinicians in a pediatric care ...

INTRODUCTION Performance in an admission test and carefully conducted, structured interview provides a uniform basis for the assessment of applicants prepared in different systems of education for admission to an institute of higher professional learning. We studied the predictability of the system of education followed by the students prior to entrance into the Medical College, the admission t...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the reliability of a new sleep questionnaire (sHUNT-Q) used in the Nord Trøndelag Health Study 3 (HUNT 3) performed between 2006 and 2008. Six of nine items were modified from a Norwegian version of the Karolinska Sleep questionnaire (KSQ). Overall, 50,839 (54%) out of 94,194 invited participated in HUNT 3. In a randomly selected group of participant...

Background Orthopaedic surgery residencies and certain fellowships are becoming increasingly competitive. Several studies have identified important factors to be taken into account when selecting medical students for residency interviews. Similar information for selecting orthopaedic sports medicine fellows does not exist. Purpose To determine the most important factors that orthopaedic sport...

BACKGROUND Male infertility related to professional reprotoxic exposure has been assessed in several studies. Collaboration between occupational physicians and patients can yield information about the preventive measures that can be taken to avoid such exposure. The use of preventive measures is determined by the collaboration between reproductive medicine and occupational medicine and also by ...

PURPOSE To evaluate a physician's impression of a urinary stone patient's dietary intake and whether it was dependent on the medium through which the nutritional data were obtained. Furthermore, we sought to determine if using an electronic food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) impacted dietary recommendations for these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-six patients attended the Stone Clin...