Pelvic examination skills training with genital teaching associates and a pelvic simulator: does sequence matter?
When using simulation to teach the pelvic examination to novices, standardized patients seem to be the better initial training experience, reducing student anxiety and improving learner engagement with subsequent mechanical simulation practice of psychomotor skills.
One quarter of patients with SSc have calcinosis at some time during their illness. Our data confirm a strong association of calcinosis with digital ulcers, and support a novel association with osteoporosis.