Background Sexual harassment has become a national concern and one that is increasingly
recognized in the field of medicine. Although there are reports of the sexual harassment of …

OBJECTIVE: Oral presentation skills are central to physicianphysician communication;
however, little is known about how these skills are learned. Rhetoric is a social science which …

The language people use both makes possible and constrains the thoughts they can have.
More than just a vehicle for ideas, language shapes ideas--and the practices that follow from …

Parisian options are barrier options for which the knock-in/knock-out feature is only activated
after the price process has spent a certain prescribed, consecutive time beyond the barrier. …

This discussion was selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco. Taken from a transcription, it has been edited by …

Methods Data Sources. In 1996 and 1997 we studied case-presentation learning using non-participant
observation and discourse-based interview techniques. Our subjects were third-…

Objective: To determine whether raters using the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Resident Evaluation Form can detect differences among residents in clinical competence. …

A bilateral oophorectomy at the time of elective hysterectomy is often performed to prevent
ovarian cancer. The assumption that endogenous estrogen can be easily replaced with …

Since 2001, Medical Education has published a selection of structured, short reports of
innovations in medical education in its November issue. This ‘Really Good Stuff’was the …

Interns are expected to teach medical students, yet there is little formal training in medical
school to prepare them for this role. To enhance the teaching skills of our graduating students …