This paper proposes communities of practice (CoP) as a process to build moral resilience in healthcare settings. We introduce the starting point distress that arises from ethical challenges when actions professional are constrained. examine how situations such current COVID-19 pandemic can exponentially increase professionals. Then, we explore help cope with distress. propose term collective capture shared capacity arising mutual engagement and dialogue group settings, towards responding...

In this article, we share our findings on patients’ experiences creating digital stories about living with advanced cancer, represented through found poetry. Over a period of 12 months, patients from the program “Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully” (CALM) completed their cancer. Digital are short, personalized videos that combine photographs, imagery, narration, music to communicate personal experience topic inquiry. Patient interviews were conducted storytelling process. Found poetry...

This study aimed to assess the range and intensity of psychosocial concerns experienced by women with cervical cancer their male partners. A cross-sectional survey assessed 26 couples where woman had invasive stage I-IV, up 2 years posttreatment, using a questionnaire widely used questionnaires. Respondents indicated about impact disease treatment as well general impact. Women partners expressed equal intensities concern regarding illness its treatment, rating sexuality, prognosis,...

The majority of healthcare professionals regularly witness fragility, suffering, pain and death in their professional lives. Such experiences may increase the risk burnout compassion fatigue, especially if they are without self-awareness a healthy work environment. Acquiring deeper understanding vulnerability inherent to will be crucial importance face these risks. From relational ethics perspective, role team is critical development values which can help cope with professionals. focus this...

ABSTRACT Background The evidence‐based Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) psychotherapeutic intervention was designed to address the complex needs of those with advanced cancer. Ample evidence supports efficacy CALM therapy; less is known about patient‐specific factors that influence initiation continuation sessions. Aims To gain understanding referral routes CALM. Methods An Interpretive Description framework concurrent triangulation mixed‐methods design used analyse baseline...

Of 184 female outpatients meeting the DSM-III-R criteria, for anorexia nervosa, bulimia or nervosa with bulimia, approximately 25% reported previous sexual abuse. Furthermore, abuse was associated greater psychological disturbance, measured by Eating Disorder Inventory and Attitudes Test. Sexual functioning did not differ among women who report This finding suggests that its correlates may affect severity rather than type of eating disorder.

Introduction Humanism has been identified as an important contributor to patient care and physician wellness; however, what humanism means in the context of medicine limited by opinion a focus on personal characteristics. Our aim was describe attitudes behaviours that enable clinicians integrate within clinical setting. Methods We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with ten faculty explore how they enact experience teaching. Interpretive description used analyze data...

With the increasing use of competency-based evaluations we now have more and better ways to identify performance deficiencies in our learners. Yet emphasis placed on identifying appears exceed that given improving these deficiencies.Here describe program at University Calgary for mentoring students with repeated deficiencies. We focus primarily key steps remediation, establishing a provides consistency accountability this process.A small cohort trainees persistent may need intensive...

We assessed the efficacy of Butafosfan, a component Catosal ® , in metaphylactic treatment stress pigs. Four 6‐week‐old female littermates were taken from 12 litters. They confronted with pig different litter for 2 h. There 24 pairs, each consisting confronting two unfamiliar pigs new pen. This housing provides good, but simple, model psychosocial that experience when housed large groups on farms. Immediately before being an pig, pairs injected subcutaneously at dose equivalent to 20 mg...

Background: Palliative care aims to improve suffering and quality of life for patients with life-limiting disease. This study evaluated an interdisciplinary palliative consultation team outpatients advanced cancer at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. traditionally offered medicine recently integrated a specialized psychosocial clinician. Historic patient-reported clinical outcomes were reviewed. There no priori hypotheses. Methods: A total 180 chart reviews performed in 8 sample months 2015 2016;...

By some estimates, the teacher-learner relationship explains roughly half of variance attributed to effectiveness teaching. Despite this, relationships largely have been ignored in educational literature.This qualitative pilot study sought identify factors supervisor-resident that hinder learning among University Toronto psychiatry residents.Thirteen postgraduate-year residents Years 2-5 and their supervisors were interviewed regarding interactions either assisted or adversely affected...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a complex and profound impact on the provision of palliative care globally. To support learning from providers researchers worldwide, Education Subcommittee International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) Palliative Care Special Interest Group developed webinar with presentations by discussion eight international leaders.Presentations were content rich; speakers used both quantitative (e.g., sharing recent statistical findings) qualitative narrative storytelling,...

Changes in personality and emotional status are common individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). The purpose of this study was to examine results based on the MMPI-2 before following application a statistical correction procedure (Gass, 1992). This done help determine changes scale score elevations when items containing actual physical symptoms identified statistically removed. Twenty-eight participants MS were administered MMPI-2, then retested 1 year later. Stability scores over time...