BACKGROUND Interactive media are effective tools in teaching and allow for self-directed study, which develops skills for life-long learning among health professionals. With this type of study, the learner can review material at his/her own pace and target areas that require emphasis. Pediatric residents require an accurate understanding of developmental milestones in children of various ages a...

Background: Rapid weight gain in infancy is associated with a higher risk of obesity in children and adults. A high relative reinforcing value of food is cross-sectionally related to obesity; lean children find nonfood alternatives more reinforcing than do overweight/obese children. However, to our knowledge, there is no research on how and when food reinforcement develops. Objective: This stud...

Die von K. Rockenbauch et al. sorgfältig zusammengestellten Videobeispiele „Kommunikation in der Medizin“ auf einer DVD sind für den Kommunikationsunterricht in der studentischen medizinischen Ausbildung gedacht. Anhand von 10 Beispielen mit Ärzt/inn/en und Schauspielpatient/inn/en (SP) werden typische Konsultationsund Beratungssituationen gezeigt, die in der ärztlichen Praxis häufig auftreten ...

BACKGROUND Caregivers are a vital resource in the care of transplant candidates or recipients. However, few strategies have been tested that attempt to decrease the stress and anxiety they commonly encounter. OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility of using mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques to decrease stress and anxiety in caregivers of lung transplant candidates/recipients who ...

The curriculum vitae (CV) has been the traditional method for radiologists to illustrate their accomplishments in the field of medicine. Despite its presence in medicine as a standard, widely accepted means to describe one's professional career and its use for decades as an accomplice to most applications and interviews, there is relatively little written in the medical literature regarding the...