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  1. The role of paramedics has expanded significantly over the past two decades, requiring advanced skills and education to meet the demands of diverse healthcare settings. In 2021, the academic requirements for p...

    Authors: Megan E. Worsfold, Clare Jouanny, Ela Hamer, Stian A. Mohrsen, Patryk Jadzinski and Mick Harper
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:368
  2. Psychometrics plays a vital role in evaluating educational research, including the analysis of multiple-choice exams. This study aims to improve the discriminatory ability of the “Médico Interno Residente” (MI...

    Authors: Eduardo Murias Quintana, José Rodríguez Castro, Fernando Sánchez Lasheras, Juan Vega Villar, Jose Juan Curbelo García, María Cadenas Rodríguez and Jaime Baladrón Romero
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:367
  3. As an important medical personnel training system in China, standardized residency training plays an important role in enriching residents’ clinical experience, improving their ability to communicate with pati...

    Authors: Juan Zhang, Hong Chen, Xie Wang, Xiaofeng Huang and Daojun Xie
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:366
  4. Introducing students to the "planetary health lenses" perspective is crucial. Comprehensive strategies for teaching this perspective are lacking, especially in the domains of "interconnection within nature (IW...

    Authors: Rafaela Brugalli Zandavalli, Airton Tetelbom Stein and Tatiana Souza de Camargo
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:365
  5. Clinician teachers (physicians who teach in clinical settings) experience considerable psychological challenges in providing both educational training and patient care. This study aimed to determine the preval...

    Authors: Arunee Tipwong, Nathan C. Hall, Linda Snell, Parinya Chamnan, Matthew Moreno and Jason M. Harley
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:361
  6. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a critical diagnostic tool in various medical settings, yet its instruction in medical education is inconsistent. The Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) proto...

    Authors: Lukas Martin Müller-Wirtz, William M. Patterson, Sascha Ott, Annika Brauchle, Andreas Meiser, Thomas Volk, Ulrich Berwanger and David Conrad
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:360
  7. Nowadays, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, electronic learning (eLearning) has become a necessity in education. eLearning can be either synchronous, where classes are conducted in real-time, or asynchro...

    Authors: Amal A. Alghamdi, Ghada F. Alyousif, Amani M. AlQarni, Fatma H. Amer, Taghreed O. Alfadhel, Rawan N. Almutairi, Shatha M. Almutairi, Anwar D. Almutairi, Nouf A. Hakami and Kholoud. Al Ghamdi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:358
  8. Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a congenital disease with an incidence of 4 out of 10,000 live births, therefore proper education of its treatment is essential. Understanding the disease and the wide array o...

    Authors: Imre J. Barabas, Daniel Vegh, Olivia Bottlik, Patrik Kreuter, Istvan Hartyanszky, Bela Merkely and Daniel Palkovics
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:357
  9. Cricothyrotomy is a lifesaving surgical technique in critical airway events. However, a large proportion of anesthesiologists have little experience with cricothyrotomy due to its low incidence. This study aim...

    Authors: Ying Zhou, Huibin Gao, Qianyu Wang, Juan Zhi, Quanle Liu, Weipeng Xia, Qirui Duan and Dong Yang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:356
  10. Consultations with children and their families are complex and require soft skills. However, there is a gap in the medical curriculum concerning these skills, especially as encounter training is often adult-ce...

    Authors: Vivianne Izabelle de Araújo Baptista, Liliane Pereira Braga, Ádala Nayana de Sousa Mata, Bruno Oliveira Carreiro, Luiz Paulo Gomes dos Santos Rosa, Hécio Henrique Araújo de Morais, George Dantas de Azevedo and Simone Appenzeller
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:355
  11. Writing multiple choice questions (MCQs) for the purpose of medical exams is challenging. It requires extensive medical knowledge, time and effort from medical educators. This systematic review focuses on the ...

    Authors: Yaara Artsi, Vera Sorin, Eli Konen, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Girish Nadkarni and Eyal Klang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:354
  12. Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP’s) represent a valuable tool for gathering knowledge and summarising the latest trends in medicine and dentistry. Blended education has been found, even before the COVID-19 pa...

    Authors: Irena Duś-Ilnicka, Anna Paradowska-Stolarz, Marta Mazur, Małgorzata Radwan-Oczko, Andrea Perra, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Laura Sterian Ward, Nicola Alberto Valente, Elena Firkova, Teodora Karteva, Lucia Miralles Jorda, Pedro de Sousa Gomes and Marzena Dominiak
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:352
  13. Simulation-based training is effective for ultrasound (US)-guided procedures. However, commercially developed simulators are costly. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of a hand-made phantom for US-gu...

    Authors: Chien-Tai Huang, Chih-Hsien Lin, Shao-Yung Lin, Sih‑Shiang Huang and Wan-Ching Lien
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:351
  14. Clinical practicum is crucial for strengthening nursing students' clinical competence. However, nursing students often experience considerable stress during clinical practicum, and so they employ coping strate...

    Authors: Li-Hung Tsai, Lai-Chu See, Jun-Yu Fan, Ching-Ching Tsai, Chuan-Mei Chen and Wei-Sheng Peng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:349
  15. Nontraditional students bring to medicine inherent characteristics and perspectives that enrich the learning environment and contribute to expanding diversity in medicine. However, research has shown that thes...

    Authors: Danielle Eames, Shelby Thomas, Kaden Norman, Edward Simanton and Anne Weisman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:348
  16. Medicine is one of the most inaccessible professions in the United Kingdom (UK). The Plant a Seed (PAS) series was created to address this; it is an online pre-recorded three-part video series to “Inspire”, “E...

    Authors: Nadin Hawwash and Enam Haque
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:347
  17. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a frequent manifestation at the onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children, possibly associated with a wide range of complications, often as a consequence of wrong or delayed ...

    Authors: Alice Monzani, Elena Corti, Antonio Scalogna, Silvia Savastio, Erica Pozzi, Pier Paolo Sainaghi, Francesco Della Corte and Ivana Rabbone
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:345
  18. Assessment of the ocular fundus, traditionally by direct ophthalmoscopy (DO), is essential to evaluate many neurologic diseases. However, the status of DO training in neurology residencies is unknown. We condu...

    Authors: Jasmeet Saroya, Noor Chahal, Alice Jiang, Douglas Pet, Nailyn Rasool, Mark Terrelonge and Madeline Yung
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:344
  19. In the dynamic field of pharmacy amongst a diverse array of countries with disparate income levels, pharmacists play a pivotal role in integrating emerging scientific knowledge into their practice while adapti...

    Authors: Sholene Ballaram, Velisha Perumal-Pillay and Fatima Suleman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:343
  20. Since university education and intensive and limited pre-service training do not provide an acceptable level of performing the duties of operating room nurses, and considering the limitations of traditional tr...

    Authors: R. Khorammakan, S. H. Roudbari, A. Omid, V. S. Anoosheh, A. N. Arabkhazaei, A. Z. Arabkhazaei, J. Khalili, H. Belyad Chaldashti and A. Ghadami
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:342
  21. Assessment ability lies at the core of midwives’ capacity to judge and treat clinical problems effectively. Influenced by the traditional teaching method of “teacher-led and content-based”, that teachers invol...

    Authors: Yuji Wang, Yijuan Peng and Yan Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:340
  22. Computer-based assessment for sampling personal characteristics (Casper), an online situational judgement test, is a broad measure of personal and professional qualities. We examined the impact of Casper in th...

    Authors: Anurag Saxena, Loni Desanghere, Kelly Dore and Harold Reiter
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:339
  23. The midwifery continuity of care model is one of the care models that have not been evaluated well in some countries including Iran. We aimed to assess the effect of a program based on this model on the clinic...

    Authors: Fatemeh Razavinia, Parvin Abedi, Mina Iravani, Eesa Mohammadi, Bahman Cheraghian, Shayesteh Jahanfar and Mahin Najafian
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:338
  24. Despite the central importance of physical examination (PE) skills to patient evaluation, early trainees struggle with its correct application and interpretation. This struggle may reflect the instructional st...

    Authors: LilyAnne Jewett, Samuel Clarke, Erin Griffin and Aaron Danielson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:337
  25. Medical diagnostics is a pivotal bridge curriculum that receives much less attention from undergraduates in non-clinical medicine health profession programs with less student engagement and poor performance. M...

    Authors: Jieyu He, Bei Wu, Haiying Zhong, Junkun Zhan, Lanyan Zhu, Jie Zhang, Yi Zeng and Zhihong Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:336
  26. In the context of increasingly intricate healthcare systems, professionals are compelled to collaborate within dynamically changing interprofessional teams. Moreover, they must adapt these collaborative proces...

    Authors: Lisa-Maria van Klaveren, Vincent Geukers and Rien de Vos
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:334
  27. Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is reported to ease effective and adequate decision making for all works of life including health professionals. Investigating the level of implementation of EBP among physiothera...

    Authors: Dilane Landry Nsangou Muntessu, Hyacinte Trésor Ghassi, Franklin Chu Buh, Ange Wandji Nietho, Julio Rostan Siewe and Mpatoutou Me Mpatoutou
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:332
  28. Many applied postgraduate pain training programs are monodisciplinary, whereas interdisciplinary training programs potentially improve interdisciplinary collaboration, which is favourable for managing patients...

    Authors: Wouter Munneke, Christophe Demoulin, Jo Nijs, Carine Morin, Emy Kool, Anne Berquin, Mira Meeus and Margot De Kooning
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:331
  29. Academic social contexts and educational beliefs may influence teaching practices and teaching intentions. Insight into such beliefs represents an important source of information for medical schools to improve...

    Authors: Marilù Guigli Poretti, Matteo Monti and Marta Fadda
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:330
  30. A script concordance test (SCT) provides a series of clinical vignettes to assess clinical reasoning in uncertainty. Appraised throughout health education literature, SCTs are cognitive assessments of clinical...

    Authors: Lindsey Kojich, Stephanie A. Miller, Katelyn Axman, Timothy Eacret, J. Atticus Koontz and Caroline Smith
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:329
  31. The complexity and uncertainty around Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS) make it difficult to diagnose and treat, particularly under time-constrained consultations and limited knowledge. Brief interventions th...

    Authors: Stacie Thursby, Lorelle Dismore and Katherine Swainston
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:328
  32. The abrupt onset of the COVID-19 pandemic compelled universities to swiftly establish online teaching and learning environments that were not only immediately deployable but also conducive to high-quality educ...

    Authors: Chih-Tsung Hung, Shou-En Wu, Yi-Hsien Chen, Chen-Yeu Soong, Chien‑Ping Chiang and Wei‑Ming Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:326
  33. “Student engagement” (SE) is gaining momentum as an approach to improve the performance of health professions education (HPE). Nevertheless, despite the broad studies about the role of students in various area...

    Authors: Hanieh Neshastesaz Kashi, Salime Goharinezhad, Samira Soleimanpour and Ali Haji Mohammadi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:325
  34. Problem-based learning (PBL) was introduced to address passive teaching limitations. However, it is not fully characterised as a teaching modality in pharmacology. The present study investigated the factors af...

    Authors: S. A. Nicolaou, I. Televantou, A. Papageorgiou, A. P. Albert, A. W. Hitchings, P. McCrorie and Persoulla Nicolaou
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:324
  35. Most United States medical schools have affiliated student-run free clinics, but the quality of services provided in such contexts compared to national metrics is unknown. This study determines whether a stude...

    Authors: Joy J. Jiang, Katie Link, George Mellgard, Francesca Silvestri, Daniel Qian, Susmita Chennareddy, Michelle Tran, Yoni Goldstein, Gabriela Frid, Isabelle Band, Alexandra Saali, David C. Thomas, Harish Jasti and Yasmin S. Meah
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:323
  36. Poor learning and retention are common problems of students, which may be alleviated by optimization of widely used educational methods such as lectures. This study aimed to investigate the effect of spaced le...

    Authors: Ali Khalafi, Zahra Fallah and Hamid Sharif-Nia
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:322
  37. Narrative Medicine (NM), a contemporary medical concept proposed in the 21st century, emphasizes the use of narrative as a literary form in medicine. This study aims to explore the understanding about NM and w...

    Authors: Songshu Xiao, Jing Yuan, Hua Lan, Qiaofen Li, Yan Cheng, Ke Cao and Xiangyang Zeng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:321
  38. The shortage of skilled healthcare professionals in pediatric oncology and the limited access to training programs remain significant challenges in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. The the Pediatric Radiation O...

    Authors: Adedayo O. Joseph, Adeseye M. Akinsete, Azeezat O. Ajose, Aishat T. Oladipo, Adeola Maliki, Korede Akindele, Michelle Mangongolo, Samuel Adeneye and Wilfred Ngwa
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:317
  39. Colleges and universities face an increased risk of public health emergencies. Among them, medical colleges and universities deserve more attention as they serve as the play a fundamental role in providing pub...

    Authors: Xinrui Chen, Meng Zhang, Qingqing Bu, Bo Tan and Dan Deng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:314
  40. The transition of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to milestone assessment creates opportunities for collaboration and shared assessments across graduate medical programs. Break...

    Authors: Anisha Turner, Sricharan Gopakumar, Charles Minard, Danielle Guffey, Nathan Allen, Dick Kuo, Kelly Poszywak and M. Tyson Pillow
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:313

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