Nodding and napping in medical lectures: an instructive systematic review.
A comprehensive, international systematic review, spanning more than 100 years of data collection, suggests that soporific lectures at medical meetings are common, annoying and persistent. Low lights and boring material are prominent risk factors for nodding off during presentations. Extreme remedial measures are warranted.
Rockwood
Kenneth
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Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Patterson
Christopher J
CJ
Hogan
David B
DB
D001887:Boredom; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D012890:Sleep; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic