Background This is the third update of a review that was originally published in the
Cochrane Library in 2002, Issue 2. People with cancer, their families and carers have a high …

More than 100 years ago, Osler inspired educators to consider health professions education
(HPE) as intricately reliant on patients. Since that time, patient involvement in HPE has taken …

The hidden curriculum (HC) in health professional education comprises the organizational
and institutional contexts and cultural subtexts that shape how and what students learn …

How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed
to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future. Our world is built on an array …

Background This paper responds to previously published debate in this journal around the
use of sociolinguistic methods in communication skills training (CST), which has raised the …

Healthcare learners can gain necessary experience working with diverse and priority
communities through human simulation. In this context, simulated participants (SPs) may be …

In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically
successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of …

This study aims to provide framework for considering fidelity in the design of simulator
training. Simulator fidelity is often characterised as the level of physical and visual similarity …

We describe our more than 10 years' experience working with actors and provide a “how-to”
guide to recruiting, auditioning, hiring, training, and mentoring actors for work as simulated …

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile
piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care …