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The ongoing professionalization of medical education means that quality systems (QSs) aimed at improving medical education also continuously have to improve. The aim of this paper is to describe the development o...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:126
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
A growing number of patients require overview and management in both primary and secondary care. This situation requires that primary and secondary care professionals have well developed collaborative skills. ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:125
Published on: 19 July 2017
Research article
The institution of duty hour reforms by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2003 has created a learning environment where residents are consistently looking for input from attending phy...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:124
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research article
Professional competence is important in delivering high quality patient care, and it can be enhanced by reflection and reflective discourse e.g. in mentoring groups. However, students are often reluctant thoug...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:122
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
The aim of mentorship is to build the mentees capacity, enhance their skills and improve their ability to produce desired outcomes. However, the mentoring relationship is vulnerable to a number of challenges t...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:123
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
The on-call responsibilities of a senior medicine resident (SMR) may include the admission transition of patient care on medical teaching teams (MTT), supervision of junior trainees, and ensuring patient safet...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:121
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Interprofessional teamwork is considered to be a key component of patient-centred treatment in healthcare, and especially in the rehabilitation sector. To date, however, no interventions exist for improving te...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:120
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. In Tanzania, PPH causes 25% of maternal deaths. Skilled attendance is crucial to saving the lives of mothers and their newborns...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:119
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
The effectiveness of colonoscopy for diagnosing and preventing colon cancer is largely dependent on the ability of endoscopists to fully inspect the colonic mucosa, which they achieve primarily through skilled...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:118
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
Allied health professionals working in rural areas face unique challenges, often with limited access to resources. Accessing continuing professional development is one of those challenges and is related to ret...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:117
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
The Strength of Motivation for Medical School-Revised (SMMS-R) questionnaire measures students’ motivation for studying medicine. It includes three subscales: ‘willingness to sacrifice’, ‘readiness to start’, ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:116
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
E-learning—the use of Internet technologies to enhance knowledge and performance—has become a widely accepted instructional approach. Little is known about the current use of e-learning in postgraduate medical...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:114
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
The University College Dublin Elective Programme was introduced in 2005 with the intention of broadening the learning of its undergraduate students. Undergraduate medical students undertake seven free-choice e...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:113
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Prior studies have described the career paths of physician-scientist candidates after graduation, but the factors that influence career choices at the candidate stage remain unclear. Additionally, previous wor...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:115
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Particularly at the beginning of their studies, international medical students face a number of language-related, social and intercultural challenges. Thus, they perform poorer than their local counterparts in...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:111
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
The emotional consequences of patient deaths on physicians have been studied in a variety of medical settings. Reactions to patient death include distress, guilt, and grief. Comparatively, there are few studie...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:110
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
Self-regulated learning is the individual’s ability to effectively use various strategies to reach their learning goals. We conducted this scoping review to explore what has been found regarding self-regulated...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:112
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
The death of a simulated patient is controversial. Some educators feel that having a manikin die is prejudicial to learning; others feel it is a way of better preparing students for these situations. Perceived...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:109
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research article
The cultivation of empathy for healthcare providers is an important issue in medical education. Narrative medicine (NM) has been shown to foster empathy. To our knowledge, there has been no research that exami...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:108
Published on: 5 July 2017
Research article
This prospective study from end of medical school through internship investigates the course and possible change of self- reported self-efficacy in communication skills compared with observers’ ratings of such...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:107
Published on: 30 June 2017
Research article
Clinicians making decisions require the ability to self-monitor and evaluate their certainty of being correct while being mindful of the potential consequences of alternative actions. For clinical students, th...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:106
Published on: 28 June 2017
Research article
The development and demonstration of incremental trainee autonomy is required by the ACGME. However, there is scant published research concerning autonomy of ophthalmology residents in the outpatient clinic se...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:105
Published on: 26 June 2017
Research article
Simulation-based medical training (SBMT) is a powerful tool for continuing medical education. In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon medical education community, up until recently, SBMT was scarce in continental Europ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:104
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research article
Cross-year peer tutoring (CYPT) of medical students is recognized as an effective learning tool. The aim of this study is to investigate the non-inferiority of the objective outcome of medical interview traini...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:103
Published on: 15 June 2017
Research article
A screening spiritual history (SSH) is how health professionals (HP) identify patients’ spiritual values, beliefs and preferences (VBPs) in the outpatient setting. We report on attitudes and practices of HPs i...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:102
Published on: 12 June 2017
