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  1. Clinical empathy has been associated with positive outcomes for both physicians and patients such as: more accurate diagnosis and treatment, increased patient satisfaction and compliance, and lower levels of b...

    Authors: E. Assing Hvidt, J. Søndergaard, N. C. Hvidt, S. Wehberg, A. Büssing and C. M. Andersen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:54

    Content type: Study protocol

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  2. Early detection and response to patient deterioration influence patient prognosis. Nursing education is therefore essential. The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to compare the respective educ...

    Authors: Antonia Blanié, Michel-Ange Amorim and Dan Benhamou

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:53

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Diagnostic uncertainty occurs frequently in emergency medical care, with more than one-third of patients leaving the emergency department (ED) without a clear diagnosis. Despite this frequency, ED providers ar...

    Authors: Danielle M. McCarthy, Rhea E. Powell, Kenzie A. Cameron, David H. Salzman, Dimitrios Papanagnou, Amanda MB. Doty, Benjamin E. Leiby, Katherine Piserchia, Matthew R. Klein, Xiao C. Zhang, William C. McGaghie and Kristin L. Rising

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:49

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  4. Empathy allows a physician to understand the patient’s situation and feelings and respond appropriately. Consequently, empathy gives rise to better diagnostics and clinical outcomes. This systematic review inv...

    Authors: Freja Allerelli Andersen, Ann-Sofie Bering Johansen, Jens Søndergaard, Christina Maar Andersen and Elisabeth Assing Hvidt

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:52

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  6. Physician-scientists (the physician-scientist workforce) are aging, and there are too few physician-scientists in the pipeline to replace those who retire. Moreover, the pipeline is leaky because some trainees...

    Authors: Ruth Gotian and Olaf S. Andersen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:50

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  7. The implications of the feminisation of medicine, which is characterised by a growing proportion of female doctors, is a topic currently being debated worldwide. To date, however, there has been no systematic ...

    Authors: D. Laurence, Y. Görlich and A. Simmenroth

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:48

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Resistance to antimicrobial agents has become a problem in modern society. Antibiotic resistant bacteria undermine the prevention and treatment of infections. Undergraduate dental students in Europe are requir...

    Authors: Veronica Veses, Maria del Mar Jovani-Sancho, Raquel González-Martínez, Isidoro Cortell-Ballester and Chirag C. Sheth

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:47

    Content type: Research article

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  9. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has been used in pediatrics since the 1980s. Its main drawback is that large numbers of children are needed to make up for the fatigue factor inherent in pr...

    Authors: Fabiola Stollar, Bernard Cerutti, Susanne Aujesky, Mathieu Nendaz and Annick Galetto-Lacour

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:46

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Effective communication between patients-clinicians, supervisors-learners and facilitators-participants within a simulation is a key priority in health profession education. There is a plethora of frameworks a...

    Authors: Matthew Jon Links, Leonie Watterson, Peter Martin, Stephanie O’Regan and Elizabeth Molloy

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:45

    Content type: Research article

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  11. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been proposed as an appropriate model for creating a theory-driven approach to teaching medical professionalism. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence into it...

    Authors: Antonia Rich, Asta Medisauskaite, Henry W. W. Potts and Ann Griffin

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:44

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a framework for addressing behavior change that is often used by healthcare professionals. Expression of empathy during MI is associated with positive client outcomes, while a...

    Authors: Trevor Simper, Jon Agley, Mallori DeSalle, Jennifer Todd and Tapati Dutta

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:43

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  13. Several studies report a substantial impact of financial considerations on the process of specialty choice and the willingness to establish one’s own practice. In Germany, reliable information on self-employed...

    Authors: Tobias Deutsch, Alexander Heine, Stefan Lippmann, Anne-Kathrin Geier, Alexander Bauer and Thomas Frese

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:42

    Content type: Research article

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  14. In recent years, Spanish medical schools (MSs) have incorporated training in communication skills (CS), but how this training is being carried out has not yet been evaluated.

    Authors: Roger Ruiz Moral, Cristina García de Leonardo, Alvaro Cerro Pérez, Fernando Caballero Martínez and Diana Monge Martín

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:41

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  16. Despite a paucity of evidence to support a multitude of educational innovations, curricular leaders are pressured to find innovative solutions to better prepare medical students for an evolving twenty-first ce...

    Authors: Cory J. Rohlfsen, Harlan Sayles, Gerald F. Moore, Ted R. Mikuls, James R. O’Dell, Sarah McBrien, Tate Johnson, Zachary D. Fowler and Amy C. Cannella

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:39

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  17. Following community clinical placements, medical students use reflective writing to discover the story of their journey to becoming medical professionals. However, because of assessor bias analyzing these writ...

    Authors: Adam Lebowitz, Kazuhiko Kotani, Yasushi Matsuyama and Masami Matsumura

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:38

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  18. Identifying effective methods for safeguarding the efficient functioning of the healthcare system contributes significantly towards establishing a successful healthcare organization. Consequently, quality mana...

    Authors: Raphaella Amanda Maria Leite Fernandes, Jurema Telles de Oliveira Lima, Bruno Hipólito da Silva, Mozart Júlio Tabosa Sales and Flávia Augusta de Orange

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:37

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  19. Medical students need feedback to improve their patient-interviewing skills because self-monitoring is often inaccurate. Effective feedback should reveal any discrepancies between desired and observed performa...

    Authors: Michaela Wagner-Menghin, Anique B. H. de Bruin and Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:36

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  20. The Collaborator, Health Advocate and Leader/Manager roles are highly relevant for safe patient management and optimization of healthcare system in rehabilitation and prevention. They are defined in competency...

    Authors: Jan Griewatz, Amir Yousef, Miriam Rothdiener and Maria Lammerding-Koeppel

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:35

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  21. Medical specialists experience high levels of stress. This has an impact on their well-being, but also on quality of their leadership. In the current mixed method study, the feasibility and effectiveness of a ...

    Authors: Wendy M. Kersemaekers, Kiki Vreeling, Hanne Verweij, Miep van der Drift, Linda Cillessen, Dirk van Dierendonck and Anne E. M. Speckens

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:34

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  22. Inter-professional collaboration is acknowledged as essential for quality patient-care. However, little is known about receptiveness to inter-professional feedback in the postgraduate training. This study expl...

    Authors: Katrin Feller and Christoph Berendonk

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:33

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  23. Nursing interns are an important backup force for nursing professionals, so efforts to strengthen their patient safety (PS) competencies are a major priority. To do so requires assessing the strengths and weak...

    Authors: Fei Fei Huang, Xiao Ying Shen, Xue Lei Chen, Li Ping He, Su Fen Huang and Jin Xiu Li

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:32

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Flipped classroom is known to improve learning efficiency and to develop one’s ability to apply high-level knowledge. To investigate the effect of flipped classroom approach on teaching evidence-based medicine...

    Authors: Hsien-Li Huang, Chia-Pei Chou, Steve Leu, Huey-Ling You, Mao-Meng Tiao and Chih-Hung Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:31

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  27. The health advocate role is an essential and underappreciated component of the CanMEDs competency framework. It is tied to the concept of social accountability and its application to medical schools for prepar...

    Authors: Suzanne Boroumand, Michael J. Stein, Mohammad Jay, Julia W. Shen, Michael Hirsh and Shafik Dharamsi

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:28

    Content type: Debate

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  28. The importance of medical professionalism has been well documented in the literature. Cultural background affects the constituents of professionalism. However, few studies have explored the domains of medical ...

    Authors: Warren Fong, Yu Heng Kwan, Sungwon Yoon, Jie Kie Phang, Julian Thumboo, Ying Ying Leung and Swee Cheng Ng

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:27

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  29. Psychomotor skills related to the use of medical ultrasound are a fundamental, but often overlooked component of this ubiquitous medical imaging technology. Although discussions of image production/orientation...

    Authors: Lauren M. Maloney, Peggy A. Seidman, Kristen M. Zach, Neera K. Tewari, Matthew F. Tito and Christopher R. Page

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:26

    Content type: Technical advance

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  30. Sex and gender influence health and disease outcomes, therefore, doctors should be able to deliver gender-sensitive care. To train gender-sensitive doctors, relevant sex and gender differences have to be inclu...

    Authors: Joni K. Scholte, Francisca W. M. van der Meulen, Theodora A. M. Teunissen, Mieke Albers, Roland F. J. M. Laan, Cornelia R. M. G. Fluit and Antoine L. M. Lagro-Janssen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:25

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  31. The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure of the Chinese version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for medical students (JSE-S) and investigate differences in empathy scores among Chinese med...

    Authors: Kangqi Yi, Mingyi Kang, Dongju Li, Zhipeng Wang, Jinsong Bai, Huiming Xu and Shulan Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:24

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  32. Physicians are currently unprepared to treat patients with obesity, which is of great concern given the obesity epidemic in the United States. This study sought to evaluate the current status of obesity educat...

    Authors: W. Scott Butsch, Robert F. Kushner, Susan Alford and B. Gabriel Smolarz

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:23

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  33. The objective of the present study was to describe the knowledge regarding the antibiotic therapy of students of three medical schools in Medellín, Colombia.

    Authors: Luis Felipe Higuita-Gutiérrez, Valentina Molina -Garcia, Jenifer Acevedo Guiral, Liceth Gómez Cadena, Gustavo Eduardo Roncancio Villamil and Judy Natalia Jiménez Quiceno

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:22

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  34. Following publication of the original article [1], we’ve been notified by an author that they have published their manuscript without seeking permission for the survey that was included in one of their tables ...

    Authors: Munashe Chigerwe, Karen A. Boudreaux and Jan E. Ilkiw

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:21

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Medical Education 2014 14:255

  35. Although neuroanatomy is considered an essential requirement in medical curriculum, its teaching has undergone many changes in recent years, with most medical schools starting to implement an integrated approa...

    Authors: Mavilde Arantes, José Paulo Andrade, Joselina Barbosa and Maria Amélia Ferreira

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:20

    Content type: Research article

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  36. A gap between the attitude towards evidence-based medicine (EBM), knowledge and awareness has been reported among physicians from different parts of the world. However, no investigation on Romanian physicians ...

    Authors: Roxana-Denisa Capraş, Adriana Elena Bulboacă and Sorana D. Bolboacă

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:19

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  37. Up to 60% of preventable mortality is attributable to social determinants of health (SDOH), yet training on SDOH competencies is not widely implemented in residency. The objective of this study was to assess i...

    Authors: Lauren A. Gard, Andrew J. Cooper, Quentin Youmans, Aashish Didwania, Stephen D. Persell, Muriel Jean-Jacques, Paul Ravenna, Mita Sanghavi Goel and Matthew J. O’Brien

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:18

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  38. Peer-assisted learning is well established in medical education; however, peer tutors rarely act as assessors for the OSCE. In the compulsory, near-peer teaching programme covering basic medical skills at the ...

    Authors: Simon Schwill, Johanna Fahrbach-Veeser, Andreas Moeltner, Christiane Eicher, Sonia Kurczyk, David Pfisterer, Joachim Szecsenyi and Svetla Loukanova

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:17

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  39. Patient-centredness is considered a core competency for health professionals. To support faculty in designing courses focused on patient-centredness, an understanding of how educational interventions lead to p...

    Authors: Christel Grau Canét-Wittkampf, Charlotte Eijkelboom, Saskia Mol, Dorien Zwart, Iris Hendriks and Esther de Groot

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:16

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  41. We investigated the associations between admissions criteria and performance in four cohorts of pre-dental MS in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) program at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine....

    Authors: Theresa A. Davies, Madeline B. Miller, Vincent A. Moore and Elizabeth A. Kaye

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:14

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  42. Both medical education and radiation oncology have progressed significantly in the past decade, but a generalized overview of educational research for radiation oncology residents has not been produced. This s...

    Authors: Ching-Hsin Lee, Po-Jui Chen, Hung-Yi Lai, Ching-Yi Lee, Kang-Hsing Fan, Ngan-Ming Tsang and Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:13

    Content type: Research article

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  43. New doctors are expected to assess and manage acutely deteriorating patients from their first days in the hospital. However, current evidence suggests that medical graduates are not prepared for this. We aimed...

    Authors: Samuel Burridge, Thurkaa Shanmugalingam, Fatima Nawrozzadeh, Kathleen Leedham-Green and Amar Sharif

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:12

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  44. Attitudes towards learning clinical communication skills at the end of medical school are likely to reflect the students’ training and motivation for the continued development of their skills as doctors. Stude...

    Authors: Tore Gude, Reidar Tyssen, Tor Anvik, Hilde Grimstad, Are Holen, Anders Baerheim, Per Vaglum and Lise Løvseth

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:11

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  45. Provision of relevant pre-learning materials has been shown to increase student engagement and improve outcomes in medical education. This non-randomised study attempts to quantify the educational gains, and r...

    Authors: H. D. Jeffry Hogg, Michael Pereira, Julian Purdy, Richard J. R. Frearson and Gordon B. Lau

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:10

    Content type: Research article

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  46. To develop effective and sustainable simulation training programs in low-resource settings, it is critical that facilitators are thoroughly trained in debriefing, a critical component of simulation learning. H...

    Authors: Julia H. Raney, Melissa M. Medvedev, Susanna R. Cohen, Hilary Spindler, Rakesh Ghosh, Amelia Christmas, Aritra Das, Aboli Gore, Tanmay Mahapatra and Dilys Walker

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:9

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  48. Self-directed learning (SDL) is an appropriate and preferred learning process to prepare students for lifelong learning in their professions and make them stay up-to-date. The purpose of this study was to expl...

    Authors: Haftom Hadush Kidane, Herma Roebertsen and Cees P. M. van der Vleuten

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:7

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Assessing competence of advanced undergraduate medical students based on performance in the clinical context is the ultimate, yet challenging goal for medical educators to provide constructive alignment betwee...

    Authors: Sarah Prediger, Kristina Schick, Fabian Fincke, Sophie Fürstenberg, Viktor Oubaid, Martina Kadmon, Pascal O. Berberat and Sigrid Harendza

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:6

    Content type: Research article

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  50. Quality, evidence-based obesity management training for family medicine residents is needed to better support patients. To address this gap, we developed a comprehensive course based on the 5As of Obesity Mana...

    Authors: Thea Luig, Sonja Wicklum, Melanie Heatherington, Albert Vu, Erin Cameron, Doug Klein, Arya M. Sharma and Denise L. Campbell-Scherer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:5

    Content type: Research article

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