Herbert I. Schiller, a teacher, writer and critic who studied the subject of communication, died on Jan . 29in La Jolla, Calif.
The Rev. Walter Jackson Ong, a Jesuit scholar of language and its evolution as a means of communication, died on Aug. 12 in St . Louis
Dr. L. Bryce Boyer, a psychoanalyst who advanced the concept of countertransference in doctor-patient communication, died on Aug. 9 in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Tingye Li, an electrical engineer whose calculations in the early 1960s helped guide the development of the laser and propel the dizzying increase in the speed of fiber-optic communication, died on Dec. 27 in Snowbird, Utah.
Carl Sagan, a titan of scientific study and communication, died in 1996, leaving behind an expansive legacy of research and education.
The UPCE curriculum seems to have the potential to foster self-efficacy in the following domains: willingness to accompany a dying patient, competence in communication with dying patients and their relatives, and knowledge and skills in PC.
Results are summarised in Table 4. Legend: (2) Willingness to accompany dying patients; (3) Self-estimation of competence in communication with dying patients and their relatives; (4) self-estimation of knowledge and skills in PC; (5.1) Attitude towards death of self; (5.2) Attitude towards dying of self; (5.3) Attitude towards death of others; (5.4) Attitude towards dying of others.
As independent variables we assessed five constructs essential for PC: (1) attitude towards PC, (2) willingness to accompany a dying patient, (3) self-estimation of competence in communication with dying patients and their relatives, (4) self-estimation of knowledge and skills in providing PC and finally (5) attitude towards death and dying of self and others.
From the five constructs under investigation three showed statistically significant differences comparing the IG pre and post: (2) willingness to accompany a dying patient, (3) self-estimation of competence in communication with dying patients and their relatives and (4) self-estimation of knowledge and skills in PC.
Nonetheless he made additional trips to the beachhead in waist-deep water, establishing vital radio communication, before dying of his wounds.
