Does preliminary evaluation of `` interpreter '' role play in teaching communication skills to medical undergraduates?
The workshop positively influenced students' perceived communication skills, but the "Interpreter" role was less effective than the "Observer" role in achieving this. Future studies should examine whether interpreter role plays introduced later in the medical programme are beneficial.
After 6.5 years of follow-up one-fifth of a group of HIV-infected IDU had died without being diagnosed with AIDS. This phenomenon seriously limits the number of HIV-infected IDU that may ever be diagnosed with AIDS and should be considered by HIV infection epidemic modellers. The new case definitions for AIDS will limit the number of recorded cases of pre-AIDS death.