Medical educators have a responsibility to teach students to communicate effectively, yet
ways to accomplish this are not well-defined. Sixty-five percent of medical schools teach …

Objective: Despite the increased emphasis on obesity and diet-related diseases, nutrition
education remains lacking in many internal medicine training programs. We evaluated the …

Background and Objectives: Our objective was to assess medical students' ability to care for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients and to identify potential deficiencies …

Standardized patients (SPs) are a widely used, valid, and reliable means of teaching and
evaluating healthcare providers (HCPs) across all levels of training and across multiple …

Purpose To prepare to develop a medical school curriculum on substance abuse disorders
(SADs), the authors conducted a review of the quality of the sparse published literature …

Background Physicians are encouraged to counsel obese patients to lose weight, but
studies measuring the quality of physicians' counseling are rare. We sought to describe the …

Background Physicians frequently report negative attitudes about obesity which is thought to
affect patient care. However, little is known about how attitudes toward treating obese …

BACKGROUND Physicians must effectively evaluate and treat obesity. To design a needs-
driven curriculum intended to improve patient outcomes, physicians were surveyed about …

This study examined the direct and indirect effects of medical clerkship students' prior
knowledge, self‐regulation and motivation on learning performance in complex multimedia …

BACKGROUND: Teaching and assessing the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME) competencies of Professionalism and Communication have proven to …