The underperformance in examinations of UK medical students from ethnic minorities could be partly down to a psychological phenomenon called 'stereotype threat', according to new UCL research ...
... of almost 2,600 breast MRI exams performed during a four-year period at the SCCA found three crucial patient and lesion characteristics ... , if confirmed by more research, could be beneficial because MRI exams are so sensitive that they reveal cancerous and non ...
... in an era of impending retirements. But fairness perceptions were not related to exam performance. Candidates who did better ... . "Anxiety is complex – it can both help and hurt exam performance." Anxiety management techniques should ...
... of diagnostic interpretation (i.e., exams performed to evaluate a clinical breast lump) was unknown ... facility characteristics were associated with facility interpretive performance of diagnostic mammograms. After adjustment for patient and radiologist ...
... , performed at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, included 89 CTA exams ... diagnosis to pulmonary embolism in 59 percent of the exams performed. “The two most common alternative diagnoses ...
... of Illinois have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the bedside worked better than an MRI ... time for an MRI can be several hours or more, physicians can perform all three eye-movement tests in a minute ...
The Department of Health will spend an estimated $1 million to have an Ontario firm review about 30,000 radiology exams performed by a former Grand Falls-area radiologist during the past three years.
Sometimes, a simple bedside exam performed by a skilled physician is superior to a high-tech CT scan, a Loyola University Health ...
... a significant decrease in the number of unnecessary or inappropriate studies being performed. The number of unnecessary X-ray exams performed was reduced by 83 percent between January 2008 ...
... you that some psychological processes are affecting women's performance on exams and how powerful those influences are." This new experiment ... -affirming essays improved the affirmed women's exam performances by alleviating their anxiety related to being seen ...
... . Flach and colleagues analyzed images from 89 exams performed on 50 suspected drug mules over a three-year period at University Hospital. The study ... containers, the increased ionizing radiation associated with the exam is a concern when imaging people who are presumably healthy ...
... fear, according to the article, "Writing about Testing Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom." The article appears in the Jan ... . "Choking is a serious problem, given that poor exam performance affects students' subsequent academic ...
... from 650 consecutive screening MRI breast exams performed on women between September 2007 and December 2008 at Rhode Island Hospital. The women, who ranged ...
... the results of 22 reports comparing the academic performance of 23,742 medical students and UK ... be dismissed as atypical or local problems. While exam performance is by no means the only marker of good ...
... were a baseline MRI exam, serving as an initial point of measurement, and a second MRI performed a year ... ." By combining results of the baseline MRI and the MRI exam performed one year later, the researchers were able ...
