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Overcoming Communication Challenges: Training Family Medicine Interns Amidst Covid-19, Ny'nika T. Mcfadden, Connie C. Leeper, Catanya G. Stager, Amanda H. Wilkerson

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Introduction

Assessing and addressing possible deficiencies in medical school training is important for residency programs. Due to virtual rotations and low patient volumes, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical students’ opportunities to practice patient communication. Communication skills are essential for medical students and residents. Continuous participation in communication training can increase the self-efficacy of healthcare professionals. Due to the likely impact of COVID-19, we designed and implemented a tailored workshop that focused on increasing 16 incoming family medicine interns’ level of comfort communicating with patients and their families.

Methods

Sixteen incoming family medicine interns participated in the workshop during orientation in …

Antecedents To Mobbing, Anita Lois Lane

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The research examines possible antecedents to mobbing behavior. Mobbing typically occurs following a bullying incident. Dyadic Power Theory (Dunbar, 2004) is applied to the behaviors associated with this phenomenon. Indirect Interpersonal Aggression can be perceived as a communicative strategy to demonstrate control attempts. Those who lack in self-assurance may be more apt to join in with the mob and cultivate mobbing episodes in the adult world. Emerging adults are entering vocational spheres in large numbers. Becoming aware of unethical communicative behaviors that lead to severe workplace and individual consequences is the focus of this study.

Humor And Social Support: An Investigation Of The Influence Of Humor On Evaluations Of Supportive Messages, Miranda Rachel Morgan

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this thesis study was to discover whether person-centered supportive messages utilizing affiliative humor were more likely to create positive outcomes than supportive messages that did not utilize these strategies. Receiving high quality social support when distressed has been associated with numerous positive outcomes. Research explaining different factors which influence supportive message outcomes can aid both laypersons and practitioners attempting to provide support to distressed individuals. To this end, this examination sought to explore whether the addition of affiliative humor can enhance the effectiveness of supportive messages. Three hypotheses were tested using a 2(scenario: academic, housing) x 2(person-centeredness: …

Trait And Situational Variables Affecting Communication Channel Preferences In College Students, Britt Alan Frye

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

As more and more interpersonal communication is being conducted via mediated communication channels, important theoretical questions about the impact of this shift in the use of communication media are raised. This study began the process of exploring the implications of the shift in channels used in interpersonal communication situations by examining several factors that previous research has linked to important aspects of relationship development and maintenance. Specifically, respondents were surveyed about their preferred channel of communication in four types of interpersonal communication situations that reflect varying levels of interpersonal comfort in association with communication locus of control scale (CLOC) scores. …

Connecting The Dots: Implicit Commonalities Among Cultural Morphogenesis, Structuration, And Market Economics, Stephen D. Cooper

Communications Faculty Research

Perhaps the central foundational issue of our time is the relationship of human agency and social structure. If human actors are constrained by the rules and rhetoric of the social system, how is it that those actors can yet bring about radical change in that social system? A similar puzzle exists in economics: how is it that individual transactions both maintain and transform the marketplace? This paper begins to identify common ground implicit in the work of Margaret Archer, Anthony Giddens, and Friedrich Hayek. Emergence, change, reproduction, time, agency, power, and knowledge are themes which can be read in these …

0549: Byron T. Morris Papers, 1775-1989, Marshall University Special Collections

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Wayne County, West Virginia, resident, newspaper columnist. Collection consists of correspondence, family histories, some primary sources, and a collection of newspapers, 1775-1880's. Also part of the gift were books, genealogy materials, and bound volumes of the Wayne County News. Also contains numerous clippings written by Evelyn Scyphers Jackson about Boyd County Kentucky families.

0463: William D. Birke Papers, 1925-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia newspaper publisher. Collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, certificates and an autograph letter signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the William D. Birke Papers, 1925-1973 here.

0140: Tessa Sweazy Webb Letter, 1936, Marshall University Special Collections

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Letter from Columbus, Ohio, newspaper columnist to Charles Stater of Huntington, West Virginia, commenting on her columns and on poetry published in the newspaper.

0141: Elizabeth Meriwether Letter, Marshall University Special Collections

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This letter was found in George Edmonds’ [Elizabeth Meriwether] “Facts and falsehoods concerning the war on the South” published in Memphis in 1904. The letter is addressed to Lyon G. Tyler commenting on his purchase of six copies of her book “Facts and Falsehoods”; and asks him to read “The Master of Red Leaf.”

0121: Banner Printing Company Papers, 1902-1904, Marshall University Special Collections

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The papers of the Banner Printing Company are comprised primarily of minutes of the board of directors of the company from January 1902 until July 1904. There are also items of correspondence and some financial papers of the Huntington, West Virginia firm.

0158: Rena Burnett Autograph Book, 1889-1902, Marshall University Special Collections

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Autograph book containing notes addressed to Rena Burnett. Includes hand-drawn illustrations and colored pencil notes. Also included is a newspaper clipping with a photograph that includes the Huntington High School graduating class of 1896, of which Burnett was a member.