Simon Barnes, director of TLC Education, said: "Our partnerships mean that we can help improve examination grades and build confidence in students of all ages and abilities".
The instrument is accompanied by a manual listing the criteria for 'excellent' communication skills (SE Appendix: Addendum - introduction, follow-up consultation, request for help, physical examination, diagnosis, management, evaluation of consultation, exploration, emotions, information provision, summarising, structuring and empathy).
LLiang, FG and YNW helped histological examination and immunohistochemistry staining.
JK and MK consulted the patients as clinical geneticists and helped with examination of relatives.
The authors thank Oskar Grüter of the Swiss Braunvieh Association for providing the pedigrees and contacting the owners, the owners for allowing us to examine their cows, Roman Ruf for help with the examinations and Dr. Chris Winder Waelchli for translating the manuscript.
They help perform routine examinations such as scanning chromosome preparations in order to identify abnormalities in number or shape.
Her forensic examinations help detectives determine whether people are trying to disguise their writing by using their non-dominant hand, whether they are ill or illiterate or whether they were educated in Europe or the U.S., she said.
We thank our technical assistants Jette Dierich, Nga Nguyen, Angelika Kissmann and also Joseph Saragusty, Guido Fritsch, Claudia Wiese, Friederike C. Oertel for their care of the animals and their help during the examinations, as well as Wolfgang Richter for building the animal enclosure and Verena Wolfram for correcting the manuscript.
Many thanks to the staff of the Laboratory of Immunology for help in laboratory examinations and sample storage.
We thank Mariann Bøllund and the Greenhouse cohort study team for the skilled help with child examinations and the database.
