“Practicing” Medicine without Risk

"Practicing" medicine without risk: students' and educators' responses to high-fidelity patient simulation.

PURPOSE To understand the responses of medical students and educators to high-fidelity patient simulation, a new technology allowing "practice without risk." METHOD Pilot groups of students (n = 27) and educators (n = 33) were exposed to a simulator session, then surveyed with multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Open-ended comments were transcribed and coded. They were analyzed for recu...

Practicing medicine Abbreviations

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Practicing Evidence-Based Stroke Medicine.

The practice of evidence-based medicine depends on several steps: a basic science derived understanding of disease pathophysiology, epidemiological research, and the results of well-conducted and appropriately analyzed randomized clinical trials (RCTs). The approval of new therapies by regulatory agencies is also based largely on RCT determination of the safety and therapeutic efficacy of drugs...

Practicing biochemistry without a licence?

among the many revealing sidelights cast on the culture of molecular biology in craig Venter’s book A Life Decoded, there was one that particularly struck me. He describes his first en counter with Jim Watson, who was interested in some of the research Venter had presented. “that explains everything,” Watson said. “you are a biochemist.” Venter took this as a compliment, only later realizing th...

Practicing and teaching family medicine in India.