Despite the common practice of involving inpatients in the teaching of medical students little is known about the experience for patients. This study investigated inpatients’ willingness, motivations and experience with participation in medical student bedside teaching.
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This update covers education and training actions.
This update covers education and training actions.
This Health Literacy e-learning takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. It introduces the importance of health literacy and covers teach back, chunk and check, using simple language, using pictures and routinely offering help. The content relates to both clinical and non-clinical settings and may be used as a refresher for team members or as an introduction for colleagues who are interested in health literacy.
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The clinical collection is available here and topic areas include dermatology, gynaecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, medicine (general), nursing, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics, pharmacology and surgery.
The nursing collection is available here and topic areas include nursing research and theory, pharmacology, nursing management, evidence-based nursing, home care nursing and leadership.
The psychology collection is available here and topic areas include psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology and more.
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NHS Providers, the NHS Confederation, the Local Government Association and NHS Clinical Commissioners have led a programme of work to help share learning from the vanguards with the rest of the health and care system. This is a compilation of a series of briefings, reports, case studies, podcasts and blogs which consider the key achievements and legacy of the vanguards.
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Guidance on how to protect yourself, what you should expect from your employer and what to do if you have concerns.
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Digital assessment is becoming more and more popular within medical education. To analyse the dimensions of this digital trend, this research investigated how exam questions (items) are created and designed for use in digital medical assessments in Germany.
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Free e-learning from Health Education England on Coronavirus. Courses include Guidance from the NHS and Government and Infection Prevention and Control.
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Clinical empathy has been associated with positive outcomes for both physicians and patients such as: more accurate diagnosis and treatment, increased patient satisfaction and compliance, and lower levels of burnout and stress among physicians. International studies show mixed results regarding the development of empathy among future physicians associating medical education with decline, stability or increase in empathy levels. These mixed results are due to several study limitations. In Denmark, no investigation of Danish medical students’ empathy trajectory has yet been conducted wherefore such a study is needed that optimizes the study design of earlier studies.
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