Background Patients presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain should be managed according to guideline recommendations. Serious games can be used to train clinical reasoning. However, only few studies have used outcomes beyond student satisfaction, and most of the published evidence is...
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Physicians reported less burnout and emotional exhaustion after receiving short-term professional coaching, according to a pilot trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Counseling Reduces Physician Burnout Anita Slomski. JAMA. 2019;322(16):1544 This editorial in JAMA comments on the recent paper:...
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Complexity in the evaluation of medical education - how would you evaluate this one? I am really enjoying putting together the 'current topics and controversies' week at the end of our module on 'evaluation' in the MSc/PgDip Medical Education programme at University of South Wales - though I am now...
Whole grain cereals for cardiovascular disease | Cochrane "There is insufficient evidence from RCTs of an effect of whole grain diets on cardiovascular outcomes or on major CVD risk factors such as blood lipids and blood pressure. Trials were at unclear or high risk of bias with small sample sizes and...
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Pokemon Go: Exercise impact 'short-lived' - BBC News: Research suggests playing Pokemon Go only had a short-term impact on players' increased activity.
Source: bbc.co.uk
No Long-Term Survival Benefit from Endovascular Repair of AAA Versus Open Repair: By Kelly Young
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm carries lower short-term but higher long-term mortality risks than open repair, according...
Source: jwatch.org