Research Project Description: The key to building high-quality healthcare lies with good medical leadership. Physicians play a critical role in the healthcare team and medical graduates are expected to “provide leadership skills that enhance team functioning, the learning environment, and/or the healthcare delivery system”, as described by The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). [...]

Research Project Description: Medication adherence is defined as the extent that the medication taken reflects prescribed intention. Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) published a guide advising to develop novel strategies in order to improve medication adherence. The objective of this project is to design, develop and promote a web platform and smartphone application [...]

Research Project Description: Reducing medication errors remains a significant challenge. Medication errors compromise patient safety and significantly increase health care costs. An important contributor to medication errors is irrational prescribing, which may stem, at least partly, from a poor understanding of pharmacology. Indeed, it remains a challenge for educators to prepare medical students to [...]

Research Project Description: Empathy is key to effective communication between patients and health care practitioners and has been shown to positively affect health outcomes and patient satisfaction as well as to improve patient safety. Communicating with patients is the most frequent practice by health care providers, however communications skills training in undergraduate health care [...]