Do students develop better motivational interviewing skills through role-play with standardised patients or with student colleagues?
According to MITI scores, standardised patient role-plays are similar in effectiveness to student role-plays when teaching basic motivational interviewing skills for smoking cessation to Year 3 medical students.
The combination of GBE (240mg QD) and standard dose sorafenib (400mg BID) is safe and tolerable among patients with advanced HCC. Early signs of antitumor activity may warrant further development of this combination.