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A Radiographer explains an x-ray to a coal miner participating in screening. Patient education can include explaining the results of diagnostic tests. Patient education is a planned interactive learning process designed to support and enable expert patients to manage their life with a disease and/or optimise their health and well-being.
Simulated patient. In health care, a simulated patient ( SP ), also known as a standardized patient, sample patient, or patient instructor, is an individual trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have been successfully utilized for education, evaluation of health care ...
Having practiced medicine in a very busy family medicine clinic for more than 33 years, and having studied at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, then completing my ...
Health coaching. Health coaching is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical interventions and strategies to actively and safely engage client/patients in health behavior change. Health coaches are certified or credentialed to safely guide clients and patients who may have chronic conditions or those at moderate to high risk ...
Online patient education. Online patient education, also known as online patient engagement, is a method of providing medical information and education to patients using learning management systems delivered through the Internet. [1] It is a type of computer-based instruction and includes web seminars, downloadable materials, interactive ...
Poor clinical education (or lack thereof) for DID and other dissociative disorders has been described in literature: "most clinicians have been taught (or assume) that DID is a rare disorder with a florid, dramatic presentation." Symptoms in patients are often not easily visible, which complicates diagnosis.
A day patient (or day-patient) is a patient who is using the full range of services of a hospital or clinic but is not expected to stay the night. The term was originally used by psychiatric hospital services using of this patient type to care for people needing support to make the transition from in-patient to out-patient care. However, the ...
Patient Education and Counseling is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering patient education and health communication, especially counseling. It was established in 1979 as Patient Counselling and Health Education, obtaining its current name in 1983. It is the official journal of the European Association for Communication in Healthcare ...