Have You Had Your Feedback Today?

Have you had your feedback today?

Feedback is an essential component of medical education and adult learning; however, there are several challenges inherent in measuring the feedback directed at medical students. The authors describe the use of a daily e-mail questionnaire to gather information from medical students about the feedback they receive.

Have you had your mammogram, doctor?

Have You Tested Your Goldmann Tonometer Today?

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the only known modifiable risk factor for glaucoma. Besides being a cornerstone in glaucoma management, accurate measurement of IOP forms an important component of routine ophthalmic evaluation. Despite the innovation of various newer tonometers, Goldmann applanation tonometer is still considered the Gold standard for IOP measurement. However, there are several rep...

Knowledge and Evidence You Should Have Had

Epistemologists focus primarily on cases of knowledge, belief, or credence where the evidence which one possesses, or on which one is relying, plays a fundamental role in the epistemic or normative status of one’s doxastic state. Thus one’s belief might be rational, or justified, or amount to knowledge (if true and other conditions are met); or in a partial belief framework, one’s credence migh...

"How did you sleep last night? Have you eaten today?".

Correspondence and reprints: Maya Harel-Sterling, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. E-mail [email protected] Accepted for publication June 24, 2013 Stepping into a stranger’s home on a medical visit was a new and humbling experience. During a recent medical school elective in social paediatrics, I had the opportunity to make several such home visits. It was challenging and e...