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Overview

Shmuel Reis is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a specific focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, History, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research spans several main topics including:

  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Medical History and Research
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • History of Medical Practice
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • Innovations in Medical Education

Shmuel Reis has published articles in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Lancet
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Patient Education and Counseling
  • International Journal of Medical Education
  • Supportive Care in Cancer

Key papers authored or co-authored by Reis include:

  • "The Hamas massacre of Oct 7, 2023, and its aftermath, medical crimes, and the Lancet commission report on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust" (2024), published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • "Competency and confidence in ECG interpretation among medical students" (2022), published in International Journal of Medical Education
  • "Announcing the Lancet Commission on Medicine and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow" (2021), published in The Lancet
  • "Empathy and boundary turbulence in cancer communication" (2021), published in Patient Education and Counseling
  • "The Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: historical evidence, implications for today, teaching for tomorrow" (2023), published in The Lancet

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Reis has co-authored work with:

  • Hedy S. Wald
  • Sabine Hildebrandt
  • Tessa Chelouche
  • Volker Roelcke
  • Herwig Czech

Best Publications

  • Chapter 4. European guidelines for the management of chronic nonspecific low back pain.

    O. Airaksinen;J. I. Brox;C. Cedraschi;J. Hildebrandt

  • A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

    Clermont E. Dionne;Kate M. Dunn;Peter R. Croft;Alf L. Nachemson

  • Fostering and evaluating reflective capacity in medical education: developing the REFLECT rubric for assessing reflective writing

    Hedy S. Wald;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Julie Scott Taylor;David Anthony

  • Electronic medical record use and physician–patient communication: An observational study of Israeli primary care encounters

    Ruth Stashefsky Margalit;Debra Roter;Mary Ann Dunevant;Susan Larson

  • The impact of electronic medical records on patient–doctor communication during consultation: a narrative literature review

    Aviv Shachak;Shmuel Reis

  • Primary care physicians' use of an electronic medical record system: a cognitive task analysis.

    Aviv Shachak;Michal Hadas-Dayagi;Amitai Ziv;Shmuel Reis

  • Beyond the Margins: Reflective Writing and Development of Reflective Capacity in Medical Education

    Hedy S. Wald;Shmuel P. Reis;Shmuel P. Reis

  • A report from the Second International Forum for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain. Reexamining priorities.

    Jeffrey M. Borkan;Bart Koes;Shmuel Reis;Daniel C. Cherkin

  • Reflecting on reflections: enhancement of medical education curriculum with structured field notes and guided feedback.

    Hedy S. Wald;Stephen W. Davis;Shmuel P. Reis;Alicia D. Monroe

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychosocial factors in low back pain: directions for the future.

    Tamar Pincus;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Nick A S Kendall;Michael R Von Korff

  • Talking about the pain: a patient-centered study of low back pain in primary care.

    Jeffrey Borkan;Shmuel Reis;Shmuel Reis;Doron Hermoni;Doron Hermoni;Aya Biderman

  • How to Integrate the Electronic Health Record and Patient-Centered Communication Into the Medical Visit: A Skills-Based Approach

    Pamela Duke;Richard M. Frankel;Shmuel Reis

  • Computers in the clinical encounter: a scoping review and thematic analysis

    Noah H Crampton;Shmuel Reis;Aviv Shachak

  • Evaluating the impact of an evidence-based medicine educational intervention on primary care doctors' attitudes, knowledge and clinical behaviour: a controlled trial and before and after study.

    Kerem Shuval;Eldar Berkovits;Doron Netzer;Igal Hekselman

  • Paired interviews of shared experiences around chronic low back pain: classic mismatch between patients and their doctors

    Andrew Allegretti;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Shmuel Reis;Shmuel Reis;Frances Griffiths

  • Struggling to be self-directed: residents' paradoxical beliefs about learning.

    Melissa Nothnagle;Gowri Anandarajah;Roberta E. Goldman;Shmuel Reis

  • Electronic health record training in undergraduate medical education: bridging theory to practice with curricula for empowering patient- and relationship-centered care in the computerized setting.

    Hedy S. Wald;Paul George;Shmuel P. Reis;Julie Scott Taylor

  • Begin the BEGAN (The Brown Educational Guide to the Analysis of Narrative) - a framework for enhancing educational impact of faculty feedback to students' reflective writing.

    Shmuel P. Reis;Shmuel P. Reis;Hedy S. Wald;Alicia D. Monroe;Jeffrey M. Borkan

  • 'The Loss of My Elderly Patient:' Interactive reflective writing to support medical students' rites of passage

    Hedy S. Wald;Shmuel P. Reis;Alicia D. Monroe;Jeffrey M. Borkan

  • Grappling with complexity: Medical students' reflective writings about challenging patient encounters as a window into professional identity formation.

    Hedy S. Wald;Jordan White;Shmuel P. Reis;Angela Y. Esquibel

  • Advances in the field of low back pain in primary care

    Jeffrey Borkan;Maurits Van Tulder;Shmuel Reis;Mark L. Schoene

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Borkan
Jeffrey Borkan Brown University
Frances Griffiths
Frances Griffiths University of Warwick
David Karasik
David Karasik Bar-Ilan University
Susan H. McDaniel
Susan H. McDaniel University of Rochester Medical Center
Cleveland G. Shields
Cleveland G. Shields Purdue University West Lafayette
Adriaan Visser
Adriaan Visser Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Tamar Pincus
Tamar Pincus Royal Holloway University of London
Holger Ursin
Holger Ursin University of Bergen
Rachelle Buchbinder
Rachelle Buchbinder Monash University
Matthew K. Wynia
Matthew K. Wynia University of Colorado Denver

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