BACKGROUND Anecdotes abound about doctors' personal illness experiences and the effect they have on their empathy and care of patients. We formally investigated the relationship between doctors' and medical students' personal illness experiences, their examination results, preparedness for clinical practice, learning and professional attitudes and behaviour towards patients. METHODS Newly-qua...

The discussions from a patient-led session at a national home haemodialysis conference are described. A number of discussion themes are described, together with patients' views on technical and social aspects of home dialysis. Issues highlighted included the preparation for home systems and the role of intrinsic motivation to change regimens and practice. A number of conclusions are drawn from ...

in this article inorder to identify variables related to employee’s psychological empowerment in qom education organization, at first, psychological empowerment and it’s components (trust, impact, self-determination, meaning, competence) are set as a dependent variable and participative management, training, fostering personal mastery experiences , amotional erousal, connecting to outcomes, hav...

The current research was designed to examine objective and contextual factors related to the appraisal of potentially sexually harassing situations. Working female participants (n = 208) from a mid-sized southwestern university completed a workplace experiences survey in small groups. The majority of participants were Hispanic/ Latina (77.9%). We predicted that characteristics of personal haras...