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  1. This study assessed the impact of distance cataract surgical wet laboratory training on surgical competency of ophthalmology residents at a tertiary-level ophthalmic training center in Trujillo, Peru.

    Authors: Amelia Geary, Qing Wen, Rosa Adrianzén, Nathan Congdon, R. Janani, Danny Haddad, Clare Szalay Timbo and Yousuf M. Khalifa

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:219

    Content type: Research

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  2. There is an increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S. The difficult task of addressing patients’ sociocultural needs is one reason residents do not pursue primary care. However, associations b...

    Authors: Sara Abrahams, Eun Ji Kim, Lyndonna Marrast, Omolara Uwemedimo, Joseph Conigliaro and Johanna Martinez

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:218

    Content type: Research

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  3. Student Interest Group in Neurology (SIGN) chapters across the medical schools in the United States provide opportunities for medical students to participate in clinical, research, and service activities in ne...

    Authors: Rohit Gummi, Ross Smith and Raghav Govindarajan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:217

    Content type: Research article

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  4. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a transformation of clinical care practices to protect both patients and providers. These changes led to a decrease in patient volume, impacting physician trainee education du...

    Authors: Sunny S. Lou, Charles W. Goss, Bradley A. Evanoff, Jennifer G. Duncan and Thomas Kannampallil

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:216

    Content type: Research

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  5. Uganda has an imbalanced distribution of the health workforce, which may be influenced by the specialty career preferences of medical students. In spite of this, there is inadequate literature concerning the f...

    Authors: Job Kuteesa, Victor Musiime, Ian G. Munabi, Aloysius G. Mubuuke, Robert Opoka, David Mukunya and Sarah Kiguli

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:215

    Content type: Research article

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  6. The general medicine in-training examination (GM-ITE) is designed to objectively evaluate the postgraduate clinical competencies (PGY) 1 and 2 residents in Japan. Although the total GM-ITE scores tended to be ...

    Authors: Yuji Nishizaki, Keigo Nozawa, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Taro Shimizu, Tomoya Okubo, Yu Yamamoto, Ryota Konishi and Yasuharu Tokuda

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:214

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Leaders in postgraduate medical education are responsible for implementing educational change. Although difficulties in implementing change are described both in the general leadership literature as well as in...

    Authors: Hanna Wijk, Kristiina Heikkilä, Sari Ponzer, Lars Kihlström and Jonas Nordquist

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:213

    Content type: Research article

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  9. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has led to global disruption of healthcare. Many students volunteered to provide clinical support. Volunteering to work in a clinical capacity was a unique medical educati...

    Authors: Matthew H. V. Byrne, James Ashcroft, Laith Alexander, Jonathan C. M. Wan, Anmol Arora, Megan E. L. Brown, Anna Harvey, Andrew Clelland, Nicholas Schindler, Cecilia Brassett and Rachel Allan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:211

    Content type: Study protocol

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  10. Teaching and learning Community-Based Medical Education (CBME) requires the active engagement of students in various activities to cover planned curricular content. CBME being multifaceted involves careful app...

    Authors: Sonali G. Choudhari, Abhay M. Gaidhane, Priti Desai, Tripti Srivastava, Vedprakash Mishra and Syed Quazi Zahiruddin

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:210

    Content type: Research article

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  11. The influence of music on the performance of surgical procedures such as laparoscopy is controversial and methodologically difficult to quantify. Here, outcome measurements using laparoscopic box training tool...

    Authors: Lisa Katharina Nees, Philipp Grozinger, Natalie Orthmann, Thomas Maximilian Deutsch, André Hennigs, Christoph Domschke, Markus Wallwiener, Joachim Rom and Fabian Riedel

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:209

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Residency programs have been impacted by the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this study we aim to investigate and evaluate the impact of the pandemic on residents as well as residency training...

    Authors: Eman Alshdaifat, Amer Sindiani, Wasim Khasawneh, Omar Abu-Azzam, Aref Qarqash, Hassan Abushukair and Nail Obeidat

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:208

    Content type: Research

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  13. Even physicians who routinely work in complex, dynamic practices may be unprepared to optimally manage challenging critical events. High-fidelity simulation can realistically mimic critical clinically relevant...

    Authors: Elizabeth Sinz, Arna Banerjee, Randolph Steadman, Matthew S. Shotwell, Jason Slagle, William R. McIvor, Laurence Torsher, Amanda Burden, Jeffrey B. Cooper, Samuel DeMaria Jr, Adam I. Levine, Christine Park, David M. Gaba, Matthew B. Weinger and John R. Boulet

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:207

    Content type: Research article

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  14. University students have limited opportunities to gain healthcare clinical exposure within an academic curriculum. Furthermore, traditional pre-medical clinical experiences like shadowing lack active learning ...

    Authors: Karen F. Miller, Rishub K. Das, Ciera D. Majors, Hadassah H. Paz, Ayana N. Robinson, Veronica F. Hamilton, Brittney E. Jackson, Sean P. Collins and Alan B. Storrow

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:206

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Implicit bias instruction is becoming more prevalent in health professions education, with calls for skills-based curricula moving from awareness and recognition to management of implicit bias. Evidence sugges...

    Authors: Cristina M. Gonzalez, Joseph H. Grochowalski, Ramya J. Garba, Shacelles Bonner and Paul R. Marantz

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:205

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Medical students often struggle to understand the relevance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) to their clinical practice, yet it is a competence that all students must develop prior to graduation. Objective str...

    Authors: B. Kumaravel, C. Stewart and D. Ilic

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:204

    Content type: Research article

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  17. High-quality patient care is a complex phenomenon that requires collaboration among healthcare professionals. Research has shown that Interprofessional Education (IPE) carries promise to improve collaborative ...

    Authors: Nabil Sulaiman, Youssef Rishmawy, Amal Hussein, Maha Saber-Ayad, Hamzah Alzubaidi, Sausan Al Kawas, Hayder Hasan and Salman Y. Guraya

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:203

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Video-based teaching has been part of medical education for some time but 360° videos using a virtual reality (VR) device are a new medium that offer extended possibilities. We investigated whether adding a 36...

    Authors: Vera Arents, Pieter C. M. de Groot, Veerle M. D. Struben and Karlijn J. van Stralen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:202

    Content type: Research article

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  19. As the numbers of people with dementia worldwide rises, there is a need for improved knowledge and awareness about the condition across the healthcare workforce. There are concerns that traditional models of h...

    Authors: Yvonne Feeney, Stephanie Daley, Breda Flaherty and Sube Banerjee

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:201

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Medical students must meet curricular expectations and pass national licensing examinations to become physicians. However, no previous studies explicitly modeled stages of medical students acquiring basic scie...

    Authors: Ling Wang, Heather S. Laird-Fick, Carol J. Parker and David Solomon

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:200

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Medical schools have evolved toward competency-based education and active learner-centered strategies. Medical informatics course was introduced in 2011 in the 3rd year at the College of Medicine (CoM), King S...

    Authors: Ahmed I. Albarrak, Nasriah Zakaria, Jwaher Almulhem, Samina A. Khan and Norshahriza Abdul Karim

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:199

    Content type: Research article

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  22. To evaluate the self-confidence of undergraduate dental students in relation to oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) to assess the teaching curriculum at Kuwait University using a validated questionnaire orig...

    Authors: Mohammad Kamal and Mohammad Abdulwahab

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:198

    Content type: Research article

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  23. It is recognised that newly qualified doctors feel unprepared in many areas of their daily practice and that there is a gap between what students learn during medical school and their clinical responsibilities...

    Authors: Patrick McCrossan, Dara O’Donoghue, Alf Nicholson and Naomi McCallion

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:197

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Communication of bad news plays a critical role in the physician-patient relationship, and a variety of consensus guidelines have been developed to this purpose, including the SPIKES protocol. However, little ...

    Authors: Kátia Laureano dos Santos, Paola Gremigni, Giulia Casu, Victor Zaia and Erik Montagna

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:196

    Content type: Research article

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  25. Proper specimen collection is central to improving patient care by ensuring optimal yield of diagnostic tests, guiding appropriate management, and targeting treatment. The purpose of this article is to describ...

    Authors: Jennifer Kue, Ashley Bersani, Kurt Stevenson, Getnet Yimer, Shu-Hua Wang, Wondwossen Gebreyes, Carmen Hazim, Matthew Westercamp, Michael Omondi, Berhanu Amare, Gebrie Alebachew, Rajiha Abubeker, Surafel Fentaw, Eyasu Tigabu, Denise Kirley, Daniel Vanderende…

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:195

    Content type: Research article

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  26. We combined anatomy with imaging, transformed the 2D information of various imaging techniques into 3D information, and form the assessment system of real medical imaging cases in order to make up for the defi...

    Authors: Quan Yuan, Xiaomei Chen, Jian Zhai, Yadi Chen, Qingxiang Liu, Zhongxiao Tan, Gao Chen, Kangle Zhuang, Jianying Zhang, Xi Xu, Di Qiang and Xuefei Shao

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:194

    Content type: Research article

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  27. The learning curve cumulative summation test (LC CUSUM test) allows to define an individualized learning curve and determine the moment when clinical proficiency is attained. After acquisition of the skills, t...

    Authors: C. Verhaeghe, H. El Hachem, L. Inchboard, R. Corroenne, C. Dreux, P. Jeanneteau, G. Legendre, P. Descamps, P. Saulnier, P. May-Panloup and P. E. Bouet

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:193

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Feedback is an essential element of learning. Despite this, students complain about receiving too little feedback in medical examinations, e.g., in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). This stu...

    Authors: J. Sterz, S. Linßen, M. C. Stefanescu, T. Schreckenbach, L. B. Seifert and M. Ruesseler

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:192

    Content type: Research article

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  30. The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) is a recognized tool for assessment of attitudes towards communication learning. In the original version, it consists of 26 items divided on theoretical assumptio...

    Authors: Piotr Przymuszała, Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, Patrycja Marciniak-Stępak, Łucja Zielińska-Tomczak, Martyna Piszczek, Jan Jasiński and Ryszard Marciniak

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:190

    Content type: Research article

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  31. Patients presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain should be managed according to guideline recommendations. Serious games can be used to train clinical reasoning. However, only few studies have...

    Authors: Tobias Raupach, Insa de Temple, Angélina Middeke, Sven Anders, Caroline Morton and Nikolai Schuelper

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:189

    Content type: Research article

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  32. It is uncommon for faculty development professionals to assess faculty attitudes towards their teaching responsibilities and their perceived obstacles to teaching effectiveness. The purposes of this study were...

    Authors: Abigail Grover Snook, Asta B. Schram and Brett D. Jones

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:188

    Content type: Research article

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  34. An innovative medical student elective combined student-directed, faculty-supported online learning with COVID-19 response field placements. This study evaluated students’ experience in the course, the curricu...

    Authors: Brandon S. A. Altillo, Megan Gray, Swati B. Avashia, Aliza Norwood, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Clarissa Johnston, Darlene Bhavnani, Hemali Patel, Coburn H. Allen, Sarayu Adeni, Nicholas D. Phelps and Tim Mercer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:186

    Content type: Research article

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  35. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are those activities that a health professional can perform without direct supervision in a defined environment. Bridging the gap between competencies and learning ob...

    Authors: Mostafa Dehghani Poudeh, Aeen Mohammadi, Rita Mojtahedzadeh and Nikoo Yamani

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:185

    Content type: Research article

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  36. Medical simulation trainings lead to an improvement in patient care by increasing technical and non-technical skills, procedural confidence and medical knowledge. For structured simulation-based trainings, obj...

    Authors: Andreas Zoller, Tobias Hölle, Martin Wepler, Peter Radermacher and Benedikt L. Nussbaum

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:184

    Content type: Research article

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  37. The undergraduate program of psychiatry has been widely established in recent years to improve the education and recruitment of psychiatrists in China. We aim to investigate the career choice of medical studen...

    Authors: Ying-Jian Zhang, Kai Yuan, Su-Hua Chang, Wei Yan, Jian-Yu Que, Jia-Hui Deng, Yi-Miao Gong, Jia-Ming Luo, Shi-Chang Yang, Cui-Xia An, Yi-Min Kang, Hua-Shan Xu, Yi-Ming Wang, Li-Fang Zhang, Wen-Fang Zhang, Yin-Li Song…

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:183

    Content type: Research article

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  38. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which a longitudinal student-run clinic (SRC) is meeting its stated learning objectives, including providing critical community services and developing p...

    Authors: Nathan G. Rockey, Taylor M. Weiskittel, Katharine E. Linder, Jennifer L. Ridgeway and Mark L. Wieland

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:182

    Content type: Research article

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  40. The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a useful means of generating meaningful feedback. OSCE feedback may be in various forms (written, face to face and audio or video recordings). Studies on OSCE f...

    Authors: Chin Fang Ngim, Paul Douglas Fullerton, Vanassa Ratnasingam, Valliammai Jayanthi Thirunavuk Arasoo, Nisha Angela Dominic, Cindy Pei Sze Niap and Sivakumar Thurairajasingam

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:180

    Content type: Research article

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  41. The humanities have long been shown to play an important role in the medical school curriculum. However, few studies have looked into the opinions of medical students on the usefulness and necessity of the hum...

    Authors: Loukia Petrou, Emma Mittelman, Oluwapelumi Osibona, Mona Panahi, Joanna M. Harvey, Yusuf A. A. Patrick and Kathleen E. Leedham-Green

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:179

    Content type: Research article

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  42. The correct performance of a structured facial examination presents a fundamental clinical skill to detect facial pathologies. However, many students are not adequately prepared in this basic clinical skill. M...

    Authors: Arne Nelskamp, Benedikt Schnurr, Alexandra Germanyuk, Jasmina Sterz, Jonas Lorenz, Robert Sader, Miriam Rüsseler and Lukas B. Seifert

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:178

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Use of healthcare terminology is a potential barrier to interprofessional education (IPE). This study describes how junior learners perceive and classify healthcare terminology in IPE settings.

    Authors: Shamara Nadarajah, Arden Azim, Derya Uzelli Yılmaz and Matthew Sibbald

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:177

    Content type: Research article

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  44. The educational beliefs of medical educators influence their teaching practices. Insight into these beliefs is important for medical schools to improve the quality of education they provide students and to gui...

    Authors: Marleen W. Ottenhoff- de Jonge, Iris van der Hoeven, Neil Gesundheit, Roeland M. van der Rijst and Anneke W. M. Kramer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:176

    Content type: Research article

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  45. Point-of-care ultrasound is becoming a ubiquitous diagnostic tool, and there has been increasing interest to teach novice practitioners. One of the challenges is the scarcity of qualified instructors, and with...

    Authors: Elaine Situ-LaCasse, Josie Acuña, Dang Huynh, Richard Amini, Steven Irving, Kara Samsel, Asad E. Patanwala, David E. Biffar and Srikar Adhikari

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:175

    Content type: Research article

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  46. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical schools suspended clinical rotations. This displacement of medical students from wards has limited experiential learning. Concurrently, outpatient practices are ex...

    Authors: Alec M. Weber, Anoushka Dua, Kitae Chang, Hamsitha Jupalli, Farsha Rizwan, Abhishek Chouthai and Catherine Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:174

    Content type: Research article

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  47. The importance of wellbeing of family medicine residents is recognized in accreditation requirements which call for a supportive and respectful learning environment; however, concerns exist about learner mistr...

    Authors: Olga Szafran, Wayne Woloschuk, Jacqueline M. I. Torti and Maria F. Palacios Mackay

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:173

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are increasingly used in undergraduate medical education (UME). We conducted a scoping review to summarize the evidence for the use of EPAs in clinical rotations in UME.

    Authors: Severin Pinilla, Eric Lenouvel, Andrea Cantisani, Stefan Klöppel, Werner Strik, Sören Huwendiek and Christoph Nissen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:172

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Repair of margin-involving eyelid lacerations is a challenge for beginning ophthalmology residents, yet no commercially-available simulation models exist for learning this skill. The objective of the study was...

    Authors: Jiawei Zhao, Meleha Ahmad, Emily W. Gower, Roxana Fu, Fasika A. Woreta and Shannath L. Merbs

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:170

    Content type: Research article

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