Back to bedside manner: a trainee’s perspective on communication

Coronary microembolization: from bedside to bench and back to bedside.

Coronary microembolization from the erosion or rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque occurs spontaneously in acute coronary syndromes and iatrogenically during percutaneous coronary interventions. Typical consequences of coronary microembolization are microinfarcts with an inflammatory response, contractile dysfunction, and reduced coronary reserve. Apart from transient elevations of c...

From bedside to bench and back again.

Taking Humanism Back to the Bedside.

After attending The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s “Barriers to Sustaining Humanism in Medicine” symposium in 1996, Steve Miller and Richard Sarkin proposed a Traveling Fellows program for the foundation. The program was approved, and Steve and Rich served as the program’s 2 Traveling Fellows until their untimely death on October 19, 2004. Steve and Rich, both Council on Medical Student Education ...

A novel bedside communication tool.

Effective communication between patients, their families, their carers and health care professionals is paramount to the delivery of high quality care. Addressing the ideas, concerns and expectations of these groups may improve their healthcare experience. We propose that opening a new channel of communication between patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals on the wards would im...

How to conduct a successful workshop: The trainees’ perspective

OBJECTIVES To define the success of a medical workshop from the trainees' perspective, where a medical workshop is a scientific event with the aim of presenting updated knowledge and to teach medical skills to the participants. In surgical specialties, it contributes to the development and maintenance of surgical skills. METHODS Medline was searched for the previous 4 months to identify artic...