W. Jerjes

Whose Voice Sounds Professional? Accent, Fluency, and the Politics of Communication Assessment in Health Professions Education.

Phenomenon: Communication is among the most valued domains in health professions education, yet communication assessment is rarely neutral. Across bedside teaching, workplace-based assessment, objective structured clinical examinations, narrative evaluations, and teaching evaluations, "good communication" can quietly b...

Primary Care Signals and Diagnostic Pathways Before Incident Heart Failure: A Systematic Scoping Review

Introduction Heart failure may be preceded by non-specific symptoms or indicators recorded in primary care, although these records do not necessarily represent heart failure or missed diagnosis. We mapped quantitative evidence on prediagnostic signals, investigation, referral, diagnosis setting and outcomes. Methods We...

Closure debt: the hidden educational deficit of fragmented clinical training.

Collagenated Xenogeneic Versus Autogenous Bone Grafts for Ridge Reconstruction: A Prospective Study

Within the limitations of this prospective comparative study, onlay grafting with bovine bone blocks demonstrated clinically acceptable outcomes for horizontal ridge augmentation, with resorption rates comparable to autogenous grafts.