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Simpson A, Feigenberg T, Clarke B, Gien L, Ismiil N, Laframboise S, Massey C, Ferguson S. Fertility-sparing treatment of complex atypical hyperplasia and low-grade endometrial cancer using oral progestin. Gynecol Oncol 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.04.224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Feigenberg T, Clarke B, Virtanen C, Letarte M, Kollara A, Rosen B, Bernardini M, Brown T, Murphy K. Nonascites-forming advanced-stage serous ovarian cancer is related to a superior epithelial antigen presentation and enhanced infiltrating T-cell response. Gynecol Oncol 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.04.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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McColl KA, Clarke B, Doran TJ. Role of genetically engineered animals in future food production. Aust Vet J 2013; 91:113-7. [DOI: 10.1111/avj.12024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/03/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Prunuske AJ, Wilson J, Walls M, Clarke B. Experiences of mentors training underrepresented undergraduates in the research laboratory. CBE LIFE SCIENCES EDUCATION 2013; 12:403-9. [PMID: 24006389 PMCID: PMC3763008 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.13-02-0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2013] [Revised: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Successfully recruiting students from underrepresented groups to pursue biomedical science research careers continues to be a challenge. Early exposure to scientific research is often cited as a powerful means to attract research scholars with the research mentor being critical in facilitating the development of an individual's science identity and career; however, most mentors in the biological sciences have had little formal training in working with research mentees. To better understand mentors' experiences working with undergraduates in the laboratory, we conducted semistructured interviews with 15 research mentors at a public university in the Midwest. The interviewed mentors were part of a program designed to increase the number of American Indians pursuing biomedical/biobehavioral research careers and represented a broad array of perspectives, including equal representation of male and female mentors, mentors from underrepresented groups, mentors at different levels of their careers, and mentors from undergraduate and professional school departments. The mentors identified benefits and challenges in being an effective mentor. We also explored what the term underrepresented means to the mentors and discovered that most of the mentors had an incomplete understanding about how differences in culture could contribute to underrepresented students' experience in the laboratory. Our interviews identify issues relevant to designing programs and courses focused on undergraduate student research.
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Bodnar D, Rashford S, Williams S, Enraght-Moony E, Parker L, Clarke B. The feasibility of civilian prehospital trauma teams carrying and administering packed red blood cells. Emerg Med J 2012; 31:93-5. [PMID: 23264606 DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility, limitations and costs involved in providing prehospital trauma teams with packed red blood cells (pRBCs) for use in the prehospital setting. METHODS A retrospective cohort study, examining 18 months of historical data collated by the Queensland Ambulance Service Trauma Response Team (TRT) and the Pathology Queensland Central Transfusion Laboratory was undertaken. RESULTS Over an 18-month period (1 January 2011-30 June 2012), of 500 pRBC units provided to the TRT, 130 (26%) were administered to patients in the prehospital environment. Of the non-transfused units, 97.8% were returned to a hospital blood bank and were available for reissue. No instances of equipment failure directly contributed to wastage of pRBCs. The cost of providing pRBCs for prehospital use was $A551 (£361) for each unit transfused. CONCLUSIONS It is feasible and practical to provide prehospital trauma teams with pRBCs for use in the field. Use of pRBCs in the prehospital setting is associated with similar rates of pRBC wastage to that reported in emergency departments.
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Clarke B, Sykakis E, Parmar DN. Cyclofenil as a possible cause of non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy. CASE REPORTS 2012; 2012:bcr-2012-007825. [DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-007825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Yap M, Cuartero J, Allo G, Pintilie M, Opfermann K, Fyles A, Murphy J, Kamel-Reid S, Clarke B, Milosevic M. The Prognostic Significance of Human Papilloma Virus and P16 in Patients With Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treated With Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.07.249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Soldan A, Clarke B, Colleran C, Kuras Y. Priming and stimulus-response learning in perceptual classification tasks. Memory 2012; 20:400-13. [PMID: 22436079 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.669482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Participants often respond more quickly and more accurately to a repeated stimulus compared to a non-repeated one, a phenomenon known as repetition priming. In semantic classification tasks priming appears to be largely attributable to the learning of stimulus-decision and stimulus-response associations, which allow participants to bypass many of the processes engaged during initial stimulus analysis. The current study tested whether stimulus-response learning plays a similarly dominant role in priming that occurs in perceptual classification tasks. Unfamiliar objects were used as stimuli to reduce the influence of semantic processes on priming and the task switched for all test trials to eliminate stimulus-decision learning. The results showed across-task priming as measured by reaction time facilitation and improved accuracy when the response remained the same during the encoding and test phases. When the response switched, similar levels of reaction time facilitation were observed, but priming as measured by accuracy was significantly reduced and no longer significant. These findings indicate that stimulus-response learning contributes to priming in perceptual classification tasks, but does not play a dominant role. Significant stimulus-level learning that is independent of the task and response also occurs and likely indexes facilitated perceptual processing of the objects.
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Shahin R, Rank C, Kinniburgh B, Jolly A, Al-Bargash D, Clarke B, Ofner M, Gilbert ML. P1-S2.57 Using an online survey to investigate risk behaviours and social networks in a syphilis outbreak among men who have sex with men in Toronto. Br J Vener Dis 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050108.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Smylie L, Clarke B. S10.1 Addressing sexual health in Canada. Br J Vener Dis 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050102.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Smylie L, Lau P, Lerch R, Kennedy C, Bennett R, Clarke B, Diener A. P1-S3.02 The economic burden of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Canada. Br J Vener Dis 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050108.135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Everitt CWF, DeBra DB, Parkinson BW, Turneaure JP, Conklin JW, Heifetz MI, Keiser GM, Silbergleit AS, Holmes T, Kolodziejczak J, Al-Meshari M, Mester JC, Muhlfelder B, Solomonik VG, Stahl K, Worden PW, Bencze W, Buchman S, Clarke B, Al-Jadaan A, Al-Jibreen H, Li J, Lipa JA, Lockhart JM, Al-Suwaidan B, Taber M, Wang S. Gravity Probe B: final results of a space experiment to test general relativity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:221101. [PMID: 21702590 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.221101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Gravity Probe B, launched 20 April 2004, is a space experiment testing two fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity (GR), the geodetic and frame-dragging effects, by means of cryogenic gyroscopes in Earth orbit. Data collection started 28 August 2004 and ended 14 August 2005. Analysis of the data from all four gyroscopes results in a geodetic drift rate of -6601.8±18.3 mas/yr and a frame-dragging drift rate of -37.2±7.2 mas/yr, to be compared with the GR predictions of -6606.1 mas/yr and -39.2 mas/yr, respectively ("mas" is milliarcsecond; 1 mas=4.848×10(-9) rad).
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Dixit A, Nair S, Williams P, Wiper A, Clarke B, Deaton C, El-Omar M, Fraser D, Khattar R, Mahadevan V, Neyses L, Ordoubadi F, Mamas M. 37 Decrease in mace rates associated with drug eluting stent use in patients with diabetes undergoing PCI in large diameter coronary arteries. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300198.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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MacKintosh M, Tower C, Clarke B, Vause S. Anhydramnios secondary to angiotensin II converting enzyme inhibitors: A reversible condition? J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2010; 30:865-6. [DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2010.501411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Blakaj D, Zhang H, Mehta K, Clarke B, Guha C, Spierer M. Radiation Therapy and Marfan Syndrome: A Case Presentation with a Clinical and Molecular Biology Correlation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.1549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Baaten B, Clarke B, Strong P, Hou S. Nasal mucosal administration of chitin microparticles boosts innate immunity against influenza A virus in the local pulmonary tissue. Vaccine 2010; 28:4130-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2005] [Revised: 04/01/2010] [Accepted: 04/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Luscombe-Marsh N, Brennan I, Clarke B, Clarson J, Lange K, Horowitz M, Feinle-Bisset C. Comparative effects of fat, protein and carbohydrate, and increasing protein loads, on appetite and energy intake in lean and obese men. Appetite 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.04.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Hamid T, Lazz-Onyenobi G, Griffiths L, Clarke B, Mahadevan SV. 096 Endovascular stenting for native coarctation of the aorta using the CP Numed covered stent: Abstract 096 Table 1. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.196071.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Clarke B, Kennelly S, Shanley D, Hogan-Lowe D, McCormack PME. Does HIPE data capture the complexity of stroke patients in an acute hospital setting? IRISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 2010; 103:23-24. [PMID: 20222391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The Hospital Inpatient Enquiry (HIPE) system is currently used as a principle source of national data on discharges from acute hospitals. The Casemix Programme is used to calculate funding for patient care (HIPE activity and Specialty Costs Returns). Th coding is usually undertaken by clerical personnel. We were concerned that the medical complexity of our stroke patients was not captured by the process. The aims of this study were to compare activity coded by HIPE coding staff and medical staff in consecutive stroke patients discharged from the hospital. One hundred consecutive discharged patients with stroke as primary diagnosis were coded by clerical staff [usual practice] and by medical staff. We compared the coding and any differences. We calculated the financial comparison of subsequent differences in Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) and Relative Values (RVs). Clinician coded DRGs resulted in a higher assigned RV in 45 cases. The total RV value for HIPE using clerical coding was 595,268.94 euros and using medical coding was 725,252.16 euros. We conclude that medical input is useful in detailing the complications arising in stroke patients. We suggest that physicians should assist in the HIPE coding process in order to capture clinical complexity, so that funding can be appropriately assigned to manage these complex patients.
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Hamid T, Rose S, Clifford A, Homa S, Garratt C, Clarke B, Cooper P, Fitzpatrick A, Petkar S, McHugh C. FP35-WE-01 Value of long term cardiac rhythm monitoring by an implantable ECG loop recorder (ILR) in patients presenting to the neurologist with transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC). J Neurol Sci 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(09)70450-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Davison A, Barton NH, Clarke B. The effect of coil phenotypes and genotypes on the fecundity and viability of Partula suturalis and Lymnaea stagnalis: implications for the evolution of sinistral snails. J Evol Biol 2009; 22:1624-35. [PMID: 19523040 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01770.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Why are sinistral snails so rare? Two main hypotheses are that selection acts against the establishment of new coiling morphs, because dextral and sinistral snails have trouble mating, or else a developmental constraint prevents the establishment of sinistrals. We therefore used an isolate of the snail Lymnaea stagnalis, in which sinistrals are rare, and populations of Partula suturalis, in which sinistrals are common, as well as a mathematical model, to understand the circumstances by which new morphs evolve. The main finding is that the sinistral genotype is associated with reduced egg viability in L. stagnalis, but in P. suturalis individuals of sinistral and dextral genotype appear equally fecund, implying a lack of a constraint. As positive frequency-dependent selection against the rare chiral morph in P. suturalis also operates over a narrow range (< 3%), the results suggest a model for chiral evolution in snails in which weak positive frequency-dependent selection may be overcome by a negative frequency-dependent selection, such as reproductive character displacement. In snails, there is not always a developmental constraint. As the direction of cleavage, and thus the directional asymmetry of the entire body, does not generally vary in other Spiralia (annelids, echiurans, vestimentiferans, sipunculids and nemerteans), it remains an open question as to whether this is because of a constraint and/or because most taxa do not have a conspicuous external asymmetry (like a shell) upon which selection can act.
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Mitro P, Kirsch P, Gajek J, Zysko D, Mazurek W, Ruiz GA, Chirife R, Tentori C, Nogues M, Grancelli H, Nur-Mammadova G, Mustafaev I, Gajek J, Zysko D, Mazurek W, Sredniawa B, Cebula S, Musialik-Lydka A, Kowalczyk J, Sliwinska A, Sedkowska A, Wozniak A, Kalarus Z, Pietrucha AZ, Wojewodka-Zak E, Bzukala I, Wnuk M, Mroczek-Czernecka D, Konduracka E, Piwowarska W, Peppes V, Kontomerkos D, Parisi T, Dimopoulos M, Antoniou A, Freitas JP, Santos RM, Boomsma F, Maciel MJ, Iacoviello M, Forleo C, Guida P, Ciccone MM, D'andria V, Sorrentino S, Panunzio M, Favale S, Candeias R, Silva J, Santos A, Marques N, Jesus I, Gomes V, Gajek J, Zysko D, Mazurek W, Olendrzynski LUK, Kramarz EK, Kubik LK, Zysko D, Gajek J, Mazurek W, Tahir T, Rose S, Garratt C, Clarke B, Cooper P, Fitzpatrick A, Petkar S, Fuca G, Dinelli M, Gianfranchi L, Corbucci G, Alboni P, Leiria TLL, Kus T, Godin B, Ayala-Paredes F, Lemieux A, Sturmer ML, Stanczyk A, Gatzoulis K, Karystinos G, Gialernios T, Sotiropoulos H, Sideris S, Dilaveris P, Arsenos P, Stefanadis C, Maggi R, Kohno R, Abe H, Otsuji Y. Poster Session 4: Syncope. Europace 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Clarke B, McCluggage WG. Iatrogenic lesions and artefacts in gynaecological pathology. J Clin Pathol 2008; 62:104-12. [DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2008.061424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Clarke B. XXXIV. Notes on the Structure and Affinities of Batideae, Callitrichaceae, Vochysiaceae, and Cassytheae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00112.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hewlett S, Clarke B, O'Brien A, Hammond A, Ryan S, Kay L, Richards P, Almeida C. Rheumatology education for undergraduate nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students in the UK: standards, challenges and solutions. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2008; 47:1025-30. [PMID: 18443005 PMCID: PMC2430217 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Rheumatological conditions are common, thus nurses (Ns) occupational therapists (OTs) and physiotherapists (PTs) require at least basic rheumatology knowledge upon qualifying. The aim of this study was to develop a core set of teaching topics and potential ways of delivering them. METHODS A modified Delphi technique was used for clinicians to develop preliminary core sets of teaching topics for each profession. Telephone interviews with educationalists explored their views on these, and challenges and solutions for delivering them. Inter-professional workshops enabled clinicians and educationalists to finalize the core set together, and generate methods for delivery. RESULTS Thirty-nine rheumatology clinicians (12N, 14OT, 13PT) completed the Delphi consensus, proposing three preliminary core sets (N71 items, OT29, PT26). Nineteen educationalists (6N, 7OT, 6PT) participated in telephone interviews, raising concerns about disease-specific vs generic teaching and proposing many methods for delivery. Three inter-professional workshops involved 34 participants (clinicians: N12, OT9, PT5; educationalists: N2, OT3, PT2; Patient 1) who reached consensus on a single core set comprising six teaching units: Anatomy and Physiology; Assessment; Management and Intervention; Psychosocial Issues; Patient Education; and the Multi-disciplinary Team, recommending some topics within the units receive greater depth for some professions. An innovative range of delivery options was generated plus two brief interventions: a Rheumatology Chat Show and a Rheumatology Road Show. CONCLUSIONS Working together, clinicians and educationalists proposed a realistic core set of rheumatology topics for undergraduate health professionals. They proposed innovative delivery methods, with collaboration between educationalists, clinicians and patients strongly recommended. These potential interventions need testing.
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