The Anywhere Museum : Genres of Teachable Moments

Teachable moments and missed opportunities for smoking cessation counseling in a hospital emergency department: a mixed-methods study of patient-provider communication

BACKGROUND While primary care medical clinics have been the most common setting for the delivery of advice about smoking cessation, the hospital emergency department (ED) is a valuable context for counseling medically underserved tobacco users. We conducted a secondary analysis based on a larger audio-recorded study of patient-provider communication about pain and analgesics in the ED. Within a...

Teachable moments for promoting smoking cessation: the context of cancer care and survivorship.

BACKGROUND There has been a call for comprehensive cancer care that gives greater consideration to changing lifestyle risk factors such as smoking to improve prognosis and long-term health. Cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship offer challenges and opportunities ("teachable moments") to promote smoking cessation. METHODS This review provides a rationale for the importance of smoking c...

Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Menâ•Žs Legal Socialization

Combining Crisis Management and Evidence-Based Management: The Queensland Floods as a Teachable Moment

Natural disasters, such as floods, provide teachable moments for students to learn about crisis management. The authors argue that evidence-based management offers a pedagogical tool for leveraging these teachable moments to deepen student learning about the management challenges of crisis situations. An emerging area in management education, evidence-based management involves using best availa...

A teachable moment communication process for smoking cessation talk: description of a group randomized clinician-focused intervention

BACKGROUND Effective clinician-patient communication about health behavior change is one of the most important and most overlooked strategies to promote health and prevent disease. Existing guidelines for specific health behavior counseling have been created and promulgated, but not successfully adopted in primary care practice. Building on work focused on creating effective clinician strategie...