Background Poor communication skills can potentially compromise patient care. However,
as communication skills training (CST) programs are not seen as a priority to many clinical …

Background Recognizing that physicians may struggle to achieve knowledge, skills,
attitudes and or conduct at one or more stages during their training has highlighted the …

Background Journeying with patients throughout their cancer trajectory and caring for them
at the end of life can lead to emotional and moral distress in oncologists, negatively …

To enhance patient care in the inevitable conditions of complexity that exist in contemporary
healthcare, collaboration among healthcare professions is critical. While each profession …

The advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) has fostered a shift in basic analytic
strategies of a gene expression analysis in diverse pathologies for the purposes of research …

Abstract Background Patients' stories provide Palliative Care physicians with a glimpse into
the former's lives and their psycho-emotional, sociocultural, and contextual considerations …

Introduction Incentive-linked prescribing, which is when healthcare providers accept
incentives from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing promoted medicines, is a form of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Although guidelines call for the presence of pediatric
ethics consultation services (PECS), their existence in children's hospitals remains …

Background. A key renovation of doctoral programs is currently ongoing in Italy. Public
health and its competencies may play a pivotal role in high-level training to scientific …

Purpose Professional identity development (PID) has become an important focus of medical
education. To date, contributions of basic science education to physician PID have not been …