INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM FOR SECOND-YEAR HARVARD-MIT MEDICAL STUDENTS: PRACTICING COMMUNICATION SKILLS WITH VOLUNTEER PATIENTS GIVING IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK

Innovative curriculum for second-year Harvard-MIT medical students: practicing communication skills with volunteer patients giving immediate feedback

Nadaa B Ali,1 Stephen R Pelletier,2 Helen M Shields1 1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Center for Evaluation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Purpose: Medical students are expected to develop excellent communication skills.The purpose of our study was to create an innovative communication skills exercise using re

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Reconciling food security and biodiversity conservation: participatory scenario planning in southwestern Ethiopia

Social-ecological systems are complex and involve uncertainties emerging from interactions between biophysical and social system components.In the face of growing complexity and uncertainty, stakeholder engagement with the future is important to proactively manoeuvre toward desirable outcomes.Focusing on the interrelated challenges of food security

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Viral Communities of Shark Bay Modern Stromatolites

Single stranded DNA viruses have been previously shown to populate the oceans on a global scale, and are endemic in microbialites of both marine and freshwater systems.We undertook for the first time direct viral metagenomic shotgun sequencing to click here explore the diversity of viruses in the modern stromatolites of Shark Bay Australia.The data

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