1 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA 2Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical School, ...

In this essay, the directors of an NEH Institute on "Medicine, Literature, and Culture" consider the lessons they learned by bringing humanities scholars to a teaching hospital for a month-long institute that mingled seminar discussions, outside speakers and clinical observations. In an exchange of letters, they discuss the productive tensions inherent in approaching medicine from multiple pers...

1Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology, Centenary Institute, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia; 2Central Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia; 3Department of Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 4Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Bond University, Queensland, Australia; 5Sydney Medical School—Public Health, University of S...

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When staff at a major Canadian teaching hospital were asked what they found meaningful and important in the working environment, they responded by identifying four specific areas: recognition, communication, workload management and learning environment. One area that was identified as a particularly good example of a successful "learning environment" strategy was the opportunity to participate ...

1Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 2Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, 53100 Siena, Italy 3EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI 02903, USA 4 Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island...