Background: To enable coordinated palliative care delivery, all clinicians should have basic
palliative care skill sets (‘generalist palliative care’). Specialists should have skills for …

Mrs N. is an 80-year-old woman with Alzheimer dementia first diagnosed 7 years ago. Her
disease has progressed and she is now bed-bound and dependent in all her activities of daily …

The burden of cognitive impairment appears to increase with progressive renal disease,
such that the prevalence of dementia among those starting dialysis, or those already …

Purpose Though medical education podcasts are fast gaining popularity, they are overwhelmingly
focused on teaching the medical expert role of physicians. We explored how medical …

Outcomes 1. Describe unique barriers that Chinese North American patients with advanced
cancer face in expressing emotions and discussing future planning. 2. Identify empathic …

I read with interest the article by Suri et al.[1] on the harms and benefits of sharing ‘‘tragic
knowledge’’with patients. However, I want to clarify that there have been no good studies to …

The gaseous phytohormone ethylene C 2 H 4 mediates numerous aspects of growth and
development. Genetic analysis has identified a number of critical elements in ethylene …

This action research investigated the use of Past Tense Board Game (PTBG) to enhance Year
Four pupils‟ mastery of simple past tense in writing. The research was conducted in a sub…

Ethics and professionalism are recognized as essential components of the training and
education of healthcare professionals. In addition to enhancing the training and education of …

Discovering hierarchical regularities in data is a key problem in interacting with large
datasets, modeling cognition, and encoding knowledge. A previous Bayesian solution---Kingman's …