Sonographic training in rheumatology: a self teaching approach.

Ultrasonography in rheumatology: an evolving technique.

Ultrasonography (US) has proved to be an excellent technique for a quick, eYcient, and accurate evaluation of soft tissues involvement in rheumatic diseases. US is a powerful tool to look around or inside joints, or both, tendons, muscles, bursae, and nerves. Skin, salivary glands, parathyroids, and small and large vessels are other interesting targets of US in rheumatology. The main advantages...

The use of patient partners with back pain to teach undergraduate medical students.

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of teaching about back pain to medical students using trained patient partners (PP). METHODS An initial training programme for four PPs (two with sciatica and two with ankylosing spondylitis) followed by teaching to alternate groups of medical students at the Whittington Campus of the Royal Free and University College Medical School (RFUCMS). A control group of...

Energizing rheumatology training: put teaching back into the academic limelight.

Rheumatology clinicians’ experiences of brief training and implementation of skills to support patient self-management

BACKGROUND Self-management of arthritis requires informed, activated patients to manage its physical and psychosocial consequences. Patient activation and self-management can be enhanced through the use of cognitive-behavioural approaches, which have a strong evidence base and provide insight into the variation in outcome of patients with ostensibly the same degree of disease activity. However,...

The effects of train composition with brain learning approach based on the Educational self-efficacy and written ability of students

Purpose: Present study was conducted with the aim of the effects of teaching method of writing with brain-based learning on educational self-efficacy and written ability of female students in fifth grade of primary school. Materials & Methods: A quasi-experimental method with designing pre-test and post-test with unequal control group was used and to select the sample, the one-stage cluster sam...