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  1. The learning environment impacts many aspects of healthcare education, including student outcomes. Rather than being a single and fixed phenomenon, it is made up of multiple micro learning environments. The st...

    Authors: R. Isba, C. Rousseva, K. Woolf and L. Byrne-Davis

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:110

    Content type: Research article

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  2. The teaching of human anatomy is often based on practices of cadaver dissection and prosected specimens. However, exposure to human cadavers might be stressful and anxiety-inducing for students. The aim of thi...

    Authors: Carmen Romo-Barrientos, Juan José Criado-Álvarez, Jaime González-González, Isabel Ubeda-Bañon, Alicia Flores-Cuadrado, Daniel Saiz-Sánchez, Antonio Viñuela, Jose Luis Martin-Conty, Teresa Simón, Alino Martinez-Marcos and Alicia Mohedano-Moriano

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:109

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  3. Development of an entry-level physiotherapy curriculum in China currently follows the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) guidelines, however there is no standard, validated, assessment tool for ph...

    Authors: Jia Hu, Alice Y.M. Jones, Xuelian Zhou, Hua Zhai, Shirley P. C. Ngai, Ka-Chun Siu and Megan Dalton

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:108

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  4. Clinical reasoning is at the core of health professionals’ practice. A mapping of what constitutes clinical reasoning could support the teaching, development, and assessment of clinical reasoning across the he...

    Authors: Meredith E. Young, Aliki Thomas, Stuart Lubarsky, David Gordon, Larry D. Gruppen, Joseph Rencic, Tiffany Ballard, Eric Holmboe, Ana Da Silva, Temple Ratcliffe, Lambert Schuwirth, Valérie Dory and Steven J. Durning

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:107

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  6. Interactions between pharmaceutical and medical device industries and students can lead to commercial influences on educational messages, with a potential to bias future treatment choice. This is the first stu...

    Authors: Ieva Salmane-Kulikovska, Elita Poplavska, Signe Mezinska, Vita Dumpe, Helena Dauvarte, Lina Lazdina, Aleksandr Marchockij, Karolis Varzinskas and Barbara J. Mintzes

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:105

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  7. We sought to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a mindfulness training program, delivered online to medical students at a Rural Clinical School.

    Authors: Sarah Moore, Rita Barbour, Hanh Ngo, Craig Sinclair, Richard Chambers, Kirsten Auret, Craig Hassed and Denese Playford

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:104

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  8. The tutorial group and its dynamics are a cornerstone of problem-based learning (PBL). The tutor’s support varies according to the setting, and it is pertinent to explore group effectiveness in relation to dif...

    Authors: Samuel Edelbring, Siw Alehagen, Evalotte Mörelius, AnnaKarin Johansson and Patrik Rytterström

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:103

    Content type: Research article

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  9. SAFMEDS (Say-All-Fast-Minute-Every-Day-Shuffled) is a flashcard-type behavioural instructional methodology, involving one-minute learning trials that function both as practice and assessment, used to facilitat...

    Authors: Louise Rabbitt, Dara Byrne, Paul O’Connor, Miroslawa Gorecka, Alan Jacobsen and Sinéad Lydon

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:102

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Digital assessment is becoming more and more popular within medical education. To analyse the dimensions of this digital trend, we investigated how exam questions (items) are created and designed for use in di...

    Authors: Saskia Egarter, Anna Mutschler, Ara Tekian, John Norcini and Konstantin Brass

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:101

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  12. Health educators aim to graduate students who are safe, effective and practice evidence-based medicine (EBM). Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are tools for translating evidence into clinical practice for h...

    Authors: Toni Green, Grant Willson and Kieran Fallon

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:99

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  13. A graduating medical doctor is expected to be competent in physical examinations across all systems. The exploration of how gender affects the development of clinical skills has not been explored in an Arab co...

    Authors: Farnaz Sabet, Sohaib Zoghoul, Murad Alahmad and Heba Al Qudah

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:98

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  14. Continuing education is essential for healthcare workers. Education interventions can help to maintain and improve competency and confidence in the technical skills necessary to address adverse events. However...

    Authors: Jimena Fritz, Alejandra Montoya, Héctor Lamadrid-Figueroa, Delia Flores-Pimentel, Dilys Walker, Sandra Treviño-Siller, Dolores González-Hernández and Laura Magaña-Valladares

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:97

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  15. Clinical evaluation is one of the main pillars of medical education. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination is one of the commonly adopted practical tools to evaluate clinical and practical skills of me...

    Authors: Mitra Kolivand, Marzie Esfandyari and Sousan Heydarpour

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:96

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  16. The License, Master and Doctorate (LMD) reform that structured high studies in three cycles, has been instituted since the Bologna declaration in 1999. To be conformed to international standards, the LMD syste...

    Authors: Julienne Noudé TECLESSOU, Essossinam KPELAO and Bayaki SAKA

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:95

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  17. Students entering medical school are driven by different types of motivation: autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, or amotivation. Motivation types can influence students’ performance, outcome and wel...

    Authors: Anne-Sophie Sarkis, Souheil Hallit, Aline Hajj, Anthony Kechichian, Dolla Karam Sarkis, Antoine Sarkis and Eliane Nasser Ayoub

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:94

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  18. Global curricular homogenization is purported to have a multitude of benefits. However, homogenization, as typically practiced has been found to promote largely Western ideals. The purpose of this study was to...

    Authors: Meredith Giuliani, Janneke Frambach, Michaela Broadhurst, Janet Papadakos, Rouhi Fazelad, Erik Driessen and Maria Athina Tina Martimianakis

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:93

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  19. A current issue in workforce planning is ensuring healthcare professionals are both competent and willing to work with older adults with complex needs. This includes dementia care, which is widely recognised a...

    Authors: Molly Hebditch, Stephanie Daley, Juliet Wright, Gina Sherlock, James Scott and Sube Banerjee

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:92

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  21. Clinicians and people living with chronic breathlessness have expressed a need to better understand and manage this symptom. The aim of this study was to evaluate a 3-day health professional training workshop ...

    Authors: Kylie N. Johnston, Mary Young, Debra Kay, Sara Booth, Anna Spathis and Marie T. Williams

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:90

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  22. This research sought to determine the impact of explicit program-based development of skills associated with research and Evidence Based Practice (EBP) on the attitudes and sustained behaviours of graduates su...

    Authors: John Willison, Xiaoxin Zhu, Baolin Xie, Xuelin Yu, Jie Chen, Deng Zhang, Ishraga Shashoug and Fizza Sabir

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:89

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  23. Racial bias in medical care is a significant public health issue, with increased focus on microaggressions and the quality of patient-provider interactions. Innovations in training interventions are needed to ...

    Authors: Jonathan W. Kanter, Daniel C. Rosen, Katherine E. Manbeck, Heather M. L. Branstetter, Adam M. Kuczynski, Mariah D. Corey, Daniel W. M. Maitland and Monnica T. Williams

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:88

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  24. Strong learner-teacher relationships are associated with more successful learning outcomes. With shortened modular curricula and increased availability of online resources, fostering faculty interaction with p...

    Authors: David S. Henry, William D. Wessinger, Nikhil K. Meena, Nalin Payakachat, Jerad M. Gardner and Sung W. Rhee

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:87

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  25. Media exposés and academic literature reveal high rates of bullying and harassment of medical students, most commonly by consultant physicians and/or surgeons. Recent reports reveal the medical profession to b...

    Authors: Laura Colenbrander, Louise Causer and Bridget Haire

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:86

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  26. Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) offers great potential to improve healthcare. Increases in IPCP will require educating learners in authentic IPCP settings and will generate opportunities and ch...

    Authors: Ann Ding, Temple A. Ratcliffe, Alanna Diamond, Erika O. Bowen, Lauren S. Penney, Meghan A. Crabtree, Kanapa Kornsawad, Christopher J. Moreland, Sean E. Garcia and Luci K. Leykum

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:85

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  27. Moral distress is a reason for burnout in healthcare professionals, but the clinical settings in which moral distress is most often experienced by medical students, and whether moral distress is associated wit...

    Authors: Subha Perni, Lauren R. Pollack, Wendy C. Gonzalez, Elizabeth Dzeng and Matthew R. Baldwin

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:84

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  28. Uncertainty occurs in physicians’ daily work in almost every clinical context and is also present in the clinical reasoning process. The way physicians communicate uncertainty in their thinking process during ...

    Authors: Julia Gärtner, Pascal O. Berberat, Martina Kadmon and Sigrid Harendza

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:83

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  30. Burnout syndrome (BS) is highly prevalent among medical students and is associated with lower empathy and worsening of medical students ́ mental health. The aim of our study was to identify prevalence of BS du...

    Authors: Maria Carolina Pedro Fontana, Igor Prado Generoso, Alexandre Sizilio and Danielle Bivanco-Lima

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:81

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  31. Although there is a wealth of research focusing on PBL, most studies employ self-reports, surveys, and interviews as data collection methods and have an exclusive focus on students. There is little research th...

    Authors: Mohammed Saqr, Jalal Nouri, Henriikka Vartiainen and Jonna Malmberg

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:80

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  32. To evaluate if United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, USMLE Step 2 CK, USMLE Step 3, and residency third-year in-service training exam (ITE) scores predict the results of American Board of...

    Authors: Supratik Rayamajhi, Prajwal Dhakal, Ling Wang, Manoj P. Rai and Shiva Shrotriya

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:79

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  33. Midwifery is an emotionally challenging profession, and academic education of midwifery especially clinical learning has its own specific challenges. Midwifery students face with stressful experiences, especia...

    Authors: Behrooz Rezaei, Juliana Falahati and Raziyeh Beheshtizadeh

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:78

    Content type: Research article

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  34. The Guideline Evidence-based Health Information was published in 2017 and addresses health information providers. The long-term goal of the guideline is to improve the quality of health information. Evidence-base...

    Authors: Jana Hinneburg, Julia Lühnen, Anke Steckelberg and Birte Berger-Höger

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:77

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  35. Recognition of the factors affecting the medical students’ academic success is one of the most important challenges and concerns in medical schools. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the mediating effects...

    Authors: Ali Asghar Hayat, Karim Shateri, Mitra Amini and Nasrin Shokrpour

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:76

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  36. Flipped classrooms have already begun to be used in many universities aboard, and they now make up for some of the short comings of the traditional classroom. We introduced the concept of flipped classrooms in...

    Authors: Su Wu, Shinong Pan, Ying Ren, Hong Yu, Qi Chen, Zhaoyu Liu and Qiyong Guo

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:75

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  37. Across the world, local standards provide doctors with a backbone of professional attitudes that must be embodied across their practice. However, educational approaches to develop attitudes are undermined by t...

    Authors: Michael Page, Paul Crampton, Rowena Viney, Antonia Rich and Ann Griffin

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:74

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  38. Clinical reasoning has been fostered with varying case formats including the use of virtual patients. Existing literature points to different conclusions regarding which format is most beneficial for learners ...

    Authors: Jan Kiesewetter, Michael Sailer, Valentina M. Jung, Regina Schönberger, Elisabeth Bauer, Jan M. Zottmann, Inga Hege, Hanna Zimmermann, Frank Fischer and Martin R. Fischer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:73

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  40. Medical training focuses heavily on clinical skills but lacks in training for navigating challenging clinical scenarios especially with regard to diversity issues. Our objective was to assess third-year medica...

    Authors: Anna R. Kahkoska, Tracy M. DeSelm and Laura A. Young

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:71

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  41. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between the acquisition of laparoscopic suturing skills and other operative laparoscopic skills and to provide evidence to determine ideal time...

    Authors: Benjie Tang, Lin Zhang and Afshin Alijani

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:70

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  42. Those studying nursing are at greater risk for developing mental health problems than other tertiary students. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training may assist students to support peers and build mental heal...

    Authors: Gemma Crawford and Sharyn Burns

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:69

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  43. In the last three decades there is a growing recognition in the dental profession that dental education must go beyond teaching the technicalities of dentistry and include professionalism and communication ski...

    Authors: Réka Magdolna Szabó, Joan Mary Davis and Márk Antal

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:68

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  44. Clinical decision-making skills are essential for providing high-quality patient care. To enhance these skills, many institutions worldwide use case-based learning (CBL) as an educational strategy of pre-clini...

    Authors: Kana Nunohara, Rintaro Imafuku, Takuya Saiki, Susan M. Bridges, Chihiro Kawakami, Koji Tsunekawa, Masayuki Niwa, Kazuhiko Fujisaki and Yasuyuki Suzuki

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:67

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  45. Technology for minimal access surgery is rapidly progressing in all surgical specialities including Gynaecology. As robotic surgery becomes established in increasing numbers of hospitals, there is no set curri...

    Authors: Aemn Ismail, Matthew Wood, Thomas Ind, Nahid Gul and Esther Moss

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:66

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  46. Participation in simulation-based interprofessional education (sim-IPE) may affect students’ attitudes towards interprofessional learning (through gaining experience with others) and their professional identit...

    Authors: Bryan Burford, Paul Greig, Mike Kelleher, Clair Merriman, Alan Platt, Elize Richards, Neil Davidson and Gill Vance

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:65

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  47. Learners may subconsciously change their behavior once they know they are being observed, and this Hawthorne effect should be considered when designing assessments of learner behavior. While there is a growing...

    Authors: Joanna Rea, Christopher Stephenson, Emily Leasure, Brianna Vaa, Andrew Halvorsen, Jill Huber, Sara Bonnes, Luke Hafdahl, Jason Post and Majken Wingo

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:64

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  48. Our current understanding of medical team competence is traditionally influenced by an individualistic perspective focusing on individual team members’ knowledge, skills as well as on effective communication w...

    Authors: Maria B. Rasmussen, Martin G. Tolsgaard, Peter Dieckmann, Doris Østergaard, Jonathan White, Pernille Plenge and Charlotte V. Ringsted

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:63

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  49. Modern clinical practice increasingly relies on collaborative and team-based approaches to care. Regulatory bodies in medical education emphasise the need to develop collaboration and teamwork competencies and...

    Authors: Maha Pervaz Iqbal, Gary M. Velan, Anthony J. O’Sullivan and Chinthaka Balasooriya

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:62

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