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Coaching for Clinician Educators

Branzetti, Jeremy. Love, Linda M.. Schulte, Elaine E. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Clinician educators (CEs) face manifold challenges, such as teaching under increasing clinical productivity pressures, satisfying evolving accreditation requirements, and combatting trainee and faculty burnout....
Source: allenpress.com

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses the challenges of communicating uncertain prognosis to patients and offers a framework and language that go past mortality statistics—addressing range of time left, loss...
Source: jamanetwork.com

How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?: “We’re the first generation of people who do really know what the cure for

How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?: “We’re the first generation of people who do really know what the cure for poverty is. It eluded people for a long, long time. The cure for poverty has a name, in fact. It’s called the empowerment of women.” - Christopher Hitchens
Source: thelifeyoucansave.org

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?"...
Source: techrepublic.com

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
Source: amazon.co.uk

How to spot the warning signs and prevent mass shootings: Research on the psychology of loneliness suggests we need to rethink

How to spot the warning signs and prevent mass shootings: Research on the psychology of loneliness suggests we need to rethink the mental health aspects of such crimes and empower communities
Source: newscientist.com