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View article: Palliative care in surgery: Where are we at?
Palliative care in surgery: Where are we at? Open
Background: Palliative care should be delivered alongside surgical care for adults with serious illness. Yet, most do not routinely integrate palliative principles in their surgical practices. Objectives: This study aims to examine barrier…
View article: How patients experience nurse-doctor collaborative care at specialist clinics: A qualitative study
How patients experience nurse-doctor collaborative care at specialist clinics: A qualitative study Open
Introduction Patient experience of interprofessional collaboration in primary care has been well-studied but not in specialist clinics. Our qualitative study aimed to understand patients’ experience of a nurse-doctor collaboration at three…
View article: Dropping the baton: Cognitive biases in emergency physicians
Dropping the baton: Cognitive biases in emergency physicians Open
Introduction Clinical medicine is becoming more complex and increasingly requires a team-based approach to deliver healthcare needs. This dispersion of cognitive reasoning across individuals, teams and systems (termed “distributed cognitio…
View article: Assessing context and readiness of emergency medicine physicians to promote evidence-based imaging referral guidelines: a mixed-methods study
Assessing context and readiness of emergency medicine physicians to promote evidence-based imaging referral guidelines: a mixed-methods study Open
Background Assessment of context and readiness to change are key components in the implementation of imaging referral guidelines. Purpose In line with JBI’s (formerly known as the Joanna Briggs Institute) approach to evidence implementatio…
View article: The impact of human cadaveric dissection on professional identity formation in medical students
The impact of human cadaveric dissection on professional identity formation in medical students Open
Background As technology advances, some schools are moving away from human cadaveric dissection to teach anatomy, leading to concern regarding the possible loss of a professional identity building experience. This study explored the role o…
View article: Measuring Interprofessional Collaboration’s Impact on Healthcare Services Using the Quadruple Aim Framework: A Protocol Paper
Measuring Interprofessional Collaboration’s Impact on Healthcare Services Using the Quadruple Aim Framework: A Protocol Paper Open
Despite decades of research on the impact of interprofessional collaboration (IPC), we still lack definitive proof that team-based care can lead to a tangible effect on healthcare outcomes. Without return on investment (ROI) evidence, heal…
View article: Refocusing SoTL – Myopia, Context Lenses and Ecological Systems Theory
Refocusing SoTL – Myopia, Context Lenses and Ecological Systems Theory Open
10.29060/TAPS.2023-8-2/PV2842
View article: <p>Strategic Paragraphing 2.0: Techniques for Enhancing Inter-Paragraph Coherence</p>
Strategic Paragraphing 2.0: Techniques for Enhancing Inter-Paragraph Coherence Open
Most of us pay attention to intra-paragraph coherence: the idea that the sentences within a paragraph should logically develop a single idea. But we forget, or we struggle to master inter-paragraph coherence: the idea that paragraphs shoul…
View article: Language Discordance Between Students and Patients: Impact on Clinical Learning
Language Discordance Between Students and Patients: Impact on Clinical Learning Open
Background The clinical education of medical students relies on having direct patient experiences, which can be challenging when the patient population speaks multiple languages. In Singapore, students regularly encounter patients with who…
View article: http://www.smj.org.sg/article/institutional-ethnography-primer
http://www.smj.org.sg/article/institutional-ethnography-primer Open
This review introduces a qualitative methodology called institutional ethnography (IE) to healthcare professionals interested in studying complex social healthcare systems. We provide the historical context in which IE was developed, and e…
View article: ‘It’s going to change the way we train’: Qualitative evaluation of a&nbsp;transformative faculty development workshop
‘It’s going to change the way we train’: Qualitative evaluation of a transformative faculty development workshop Open
Introduction Relatively little is known about faculty development (FD) activities that help participants achieve sustainable behavioral change. This qualitative study evaluated the medium- to long-term impact of a FD workshop informed by t…
View article: Visualizing faculty development impact: A&nbsp;social network analysis
Visualizing faculty development impact: A social network analysis Open
Faculty development programs have tended to focus on low levels of evaluation such as participant satisfaction rather than assess the actual changes that training has brought about in the workplace. This has prompted scholars to suggest us…