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Treating Mycoplasma genitalium (in pregnancy): a social and reproductive justice concern
Antimicrobial Resistance is a threat to individual and to population health and to future generations, requiring “collective sacrifices” in order to...
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Factors influencing research productivity among Syrian medical professionals amidst conflict: a case-control study
BackgroundMedical research productivity is globally increasing, with a lagging progress in third-world countries due to significant challenges,...
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Administration of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s virtual APPLIED Examination: successes, challenges, and lessons learned
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Board of Anesthesiology transitioned from in-person to virtual administration of its APPLIED...
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An evaluation of sample size requirements for develo** risk prediction models with binary outcomes
BackgroundRisk prediction models are routinely used to assist in clinical decision making. A small sample size for model development can compromise...
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Online vs. face-to-face interactive communication education using video materials among healthcare college students: a pilot non-randomized controlled study
BackgroundThis study aimed to examine whether online interactive communication education using video materials was as effective as face-to-face...
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Regulated Pandemic Spaces: Spatial Crises in COVID Comics
Close-reading sequential comics and cartoons such as He Zhu’s “Lockdown,” Rivi Handler-Spitz’s “Morning Commute,” Yang Ji’s “Quarantine,” and Thi...
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Self-Threatening Extortionists Constitute a Problem for Utilitarians, Not Contractualists
Johann Frick has claimed that morality requires that we (in many cases) should give in to the demands of rational agents who attempt to extort us by...
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Evaluating the effects of comprehensive simulation on central venous catheterization training: a comparative observational study
BackgroundSimulation-based training (SBT) is vital to complex medical procedures such as ultrasound guided central venous catheterization (US-IJCVC),...
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“This was never about a virus”: Perceptions of Vaccination Hazards and Pandemic Risk in #Covid19NZ Tweets
In this paper, we draw on qualitative methods from the medical humanities and quantitative approaches from corpus linguistics to assess the different...
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Understanding the capacity development of faculty development programs: a sequential explanatory mixed methods study
BackgroundFaculty development programs can bring about both individual and organizational capacity development by enhancing individuals’ attitudes,...
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Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return
This paper develops a challenge to standard libertarian views that is based on an imagined neuroscientificdiscovery that is incompatible with...
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Epistemic benevolence
I make the case that what gets called epistemic paternalism isn’t correctly labelled as such. This mislabelling is problematic for two reasons....
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Using the classic trolley problem to teach AI students and researchers about their role as moral agents, and why they should be subject to moral scrutiny
Thiscommentary proposes a means of teaching students – particularly computer science students – about their role as moral agents, who, on account of...
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Artificial intelligence-based graded training of pulmonary nodules for junior radiology residents and medical imaging students
BackgroundTo evaluate the efficiency of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted diagnosis system in the pulmonary nodule detection and diagnosis...
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Biden’s Executive Order on AI: strengths, weaknesses, and possible reform steps
In recent years, numerous AI ethics and government initiatives have emerged globally. The E.U.’s AI Act and the Biden Administration’s Executive...
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Robots and reactive attitudes: a defense of the moral and interpersonal status of non-conscious agents
Traditional debates about the moral status of Artificial Intelligence typically center around the question of whether such artificial beings are, or...
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Let’s talk about work: pilot study of an education program on discussing work participation with cancer patients for general practitioners in training
BackgroundCancer patients report that they lack support from healthcare providers when it comes to returning to or maintaining employment. In the...
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Toward an Ethics of Ambiguity in Critical Work and Organizational Psychology: From ‘Blank’ to ‘Troubled’ Subjectivity
In recent years, a scholarly movement has taken hold that is critical of work and organizational psychology (WOP). Referred to as critical work and...
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Perceived competence and related factors affecting the development of the clinical competence of nursing students at two university sites in Namibia: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundEnsuring that nursing students graduate with the required clinical competence in nursing is a global challenge. To address this challenge,...