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A best-worst scaling survey of medical students’ perspective on implementing shared decision-making in China

The objective of this study was to ascertain the importance rankings of factors affecting the implementation of shared decision-making (SDM) in medical students in China and determine whether these factors wer...

Authors: Richard Huan XU, Lingming ZHOU, Eliza Lai-Yi WONG, Dong WANG, Guo Chun XIANG and Chao XU

Factors influencing specialty choice and the effect of recall bias on findings from Irish medical graduates: a cross-sectional, longitudinal study

Despite being a vital part of medical workforce planning and development, how medical students and graduates choose their career specialty is still not well understood. This study aimed to identify the factors...

Authors: Frances M. Cronin, Nicholas Clarke, Louise Hendrick, Ronan Conroy and Ruairi Brugha

Residents’ identification of learning moments and subsequent reflection: impact of peers, supervisors, and patients

The clinical workplace offers residents many opportunities for learning. Reflection on workplace experiences drives learning and development because experiences potentially make residents reconsider existing k...

Authors: Serge B. R. Mordang, Eline Vanassche, Frank W. J. M. Smeenk, Laurents P. S. Stassen and Karen D. Könings

Google analytics of a pilot study to characterize the visitor website statistics and implicate for enrollment strategies in Medical University

Taiwan’s colleges and universities are struggling to maintain their student enrollment rates owing to the declining fertility rate. Focusing on students in higher education programs, this study aims to analyze...

Authors: Szu-Chieh Chen, Thomas Chang-Yao Tsao, Ko-Huang Lue and Yafang Tsai

Evaluation of blended medical education from lecturers’ and students’ viewpoint: a qualitative study in a developing country

To improve the quality of education, many academic medical institutions are investing in the application of blended education to support new teaching and learning methods. To take necessary measures to implement ...

Authors: Mohamad Jebraeily, Habibollah Pirnejad, Aram Feizi and Zahra Niazkhani

Visual arts in the clinical clerkship: a pilot cluster-randomized, controlled trial

Arts exposure is associated with positive psychological constructs. To date, no randomized, controlled studies have integrated art into clinical medical education or measured its effects on positive psychologi...

Authors: Garth W. Strohbehn, Stephanie J. K. Hoffman, Molly Tokaz, Nathan Houchens, Ruth Slavin, Suzanne Winter, Martha Quinn, David Ratz, Sanjay Saint, Vineet Chopra and Joel D. Howell

Preferred teaching styles of medical faculty: an international multi-center study

In the current wave of educational reforms, understanding teaching styles of medical faculty can help modify instructional strategies for effective teaching. Few studies have probed distinctive teaching styles...

Authors: Nihar Ranjan Dash, Salman Yousuf Guraya, Mohammad Tahseen Al Bataineh, Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Mona Faisal Al-Qahtani, Walther N. K. A. van Mook, Muhammad Saeed Shafi, Hamdi Hameed Almaramhy and Wail Nuri Osman Mukhtar

Pursue today and assess tomorrow - how students’ subjective perceptions influence their preference for self- and peer assessments

Alternative assessments engage students in the assessment process to improve both short- and long-term outcomes by developing their judgments and responsibility about their own learning, and that of their peer...

Authors: Meskuere Capan Melser, Stefan Lettner, Andjela Bäwert, Claudia Puttinger and Anita Holzinger

Correction to: Examining aptitude and barriers to evidence-based medicine among trainees at an ACGME-I accredited program

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Mai A. Mahmoud, Sa’ad Laws, Antoun Kamel, Dabia Al Mohanadi, Ahmed Al Mohammed and Ziyad R. Mahfoud

Correction to: A comparative study of dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach among Chinese nursing and medical students

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Yao Wang, Lily Dongxia Xiao and Rong Huang

Effectiveness of simulation-based interprofessional education for medical and nursing students in South Korea: a pre-post survey

Effective collaboration and communication among health care team members are critical for providing safe medical care. Interprofessional education aims to instruct healthcare students how to learn with, from, ...

Authors: Jihye Yu, woosuck Lee, Miran Kim, Sangcheon Choi, Sungeun Lee, Soonsun Kim, Yunjung Jung, Dongwook Kwak, Hyunjoo Jung, Sukyung Lee, Yu-Jin Lee, Soo-Jin Hyun, Yun KANG, So Myeong Kim and Janghoon Lee

Education of pharmacists in Ghana: evolving curriculum, context and practice in the journey from dispensing certificate to doctor of pharmacy certificate

Understanding the origin and evolution of education of pharmacists is important for practice and health system reforms. In Ghana, education of pharmacists started in the 1880s with the training of dispensers i...

Authors: Augustina Koduah, Irene Kretchy, Reginald Sekyi-Brown, Michelle Asiedu-Danso, Thelma Ohene-Agyei and Mahama Duwiejua

The evaluation of stomatology English education in China based on ‘Guanghua cup’ international clinical skill exhibition activity

English education in professional areas has become more and more important with the increasing internationalization of health profession education in countries around the world. In this study, we aimed to eval...

Authors: Xi Wang, Yangjingwen Liu, Le Yang, Kai Zhou, Yang Cao, Yun Hong, Shuheng Huang and Zhengmei Lin

Effectiveness of clinical scenario dramas to teach doctor-patient relationship and communication skills

The doctor-patient relationship in China has deteriorated in recent years, and poor doctor-patient communication is one of the main reasons. How to effectively carry out doctor-patient communication training o...

Authors: Yinan Jiang, Lili Shi, Jinya Cao, Liming Zhu, Yue Sha, Tao Li, Xiaohong Ning, Xia Hong, Xiaoyan Dai and Jing Wei

Do we need special pedagogy in medical schools? – Attitudes of teachers and students in Hungary: a cross-sectional study

The quality of medical education is a key factor. The fact that mostly physicians teach tomorrow’s physicians without acquiring pedagogical skills before becoming a teacher is a cause of concern. In Hungary, w...

Authors: Zsuzsanna Varga, Zsuzsanna Pótó, László Czopf and Zsuzsanna Füzesi

Physiotherapy students can be educated to portray realistic patient roles in simulation: a pragmatic observational study

Simulation-based education (SBE) has many benefits for learners, but costs can limit embedding SBE in health professional curricula. Peer simulation involves students portraying patient roles, and may reduce c...

Authors: Shane A. Pritchard, Jennifer L. Keating, Debra Nestel and Felicity C. Blackstock

Students’ understanding of social determinants of health in a community-based curriculum: a general inductive approach for qualitative data analysis

A community-based medical education (CBME) curriculum may provide opportunities to learn about the social determinants of health (SDH) by encouraging reflection on context, but the categories that students can...

Authors: Sachiko Ozone, Junji Haruta, Ayumi Takayashiki, Takami Maeno and Tetsuhiro Maeno

The effect of 3D-printed plastic teeth on scores in a tooth morphology course in a Chinese university

The tooth morphology course is an important basic dental course. However, it is difficult to fully reflect the three-dimensional (3D) morphological characteristics of tooth structure in two-dimensional picture...

Authors: Helin Wang, Haokun Xu, Junhua Zhang, Shibin Yu, Meiqing Wang, Jun Qiu and Mian Zhang

The training needs for gender-sensitive care in a pediatric rehabilitation hospital: a qualitative study

Gender is an important social determinant of health; however, clinicians often lack training in how to provide gender-sensitive care. Offering appropriate and relevant training could help to address some gende...

Authors: Sally Lindsay and Kendall Kolne

Using interviews and observations in clinical practice to enhance authenticity in virtual patients for interprofessional education

Interprofessional collaboration is increasingly important in healthcare, but interprofessional education (IPE) faces challenges, such as different study programmes with varied schedules and campuses. These cha...

Authors: Desiree Wiegleb Edström, Niklas Karlsson and Samuel Edelbring

The use of factor analysis and abductive inference to explore students’ and practitioners’ perspectives of feedback: divergent or congruent understanding?

The importance of feedback in workplace-based settings cannot be underestimated. Approaches that evaluate feedback reflect either the sender’s or receiver’s viewpoint in isolation of each other. This study inv...

Authors: Christine Ossenberg, Amanda Henderson and Marion Mitchell

Assessing the preparedness and feasibility of an e-learning pilot project for university level health trainees in Ghana: a cross-sectional descriptive survey

Ghana is challenged with shortage of critical human resources for health particularly nurses and midwives in rural hard-to-reach communities. This shortage potentially hinders efforts towards attaining univers...

Authors: Robert Kaba Alhassan

Medical students’ attitudes towards careers in primary care in Singapore

Singapore needs more family doctors to care for its ageing population and their chronic conditions. While there is a shifting of care from acute care settings to more community care, this has not been reflecte...

Authors: Humairah Zainal and Helen Elizabeth Smith

What can we expect from medical graduates? Empirical survey on the performance of Core EPAs in the first days of residency

Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have been defined to specify the performance expectations for entering residents worldwide. The content of these EPAs was elaborated and validated primarily via ...

Authors: Ylva Holzhausen, Asja Maaz, Yadira Roa-Romero and Harm Peters

Association between training experience and readiness for advance care planning among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study

Training has been found effective in improving healthcare professionals’ knowledge, confidence, and skills in conducting advance care planning (ACP). However, the association between training and its actual pr...

Authors: Helen Yue-lai Chan, Annie Oi-ling Kwok, Kwok-keung Yuen, Derrick Kit-sing Au and Jacqueline Kwan-yuk Yuen

Levelling the playing field: students’ motivations to contribute to an amnesty of assessment materials

‘Exam recall’ is a recognised phenomenon whereby students recall and record questions after leaving the examination hall. This poses two main problems. First, as these questions are only available to peers of ...

Authors: Anjali R Gondhalekar, Eliot L Rees, Daniel Ntuiabane, Osman Janjua, George Choa, Oziegbe Eboreime and Alison Sturrock

Electives in the medical curriculum – an opportunity to achieve students’ satisfaction?

Electives are perceived by medical students as a valuable, highly regarded experience, allowing them to customize learning experiences and enabling them to early differentiate during medical training. The pres...

Authors: Ana Rita Ramalho, P. M. Vieira-Marques, C. Magalhães-Alves, M. Severo, M. A. Ferreira and I. Falcão-Pires

Correction to: Assessment of burnout in veterinary medical students using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educational Survey: a survey during two semesters

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

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

Undergraduate medical students’ attitudes towards medical errors and patient safety: a multi-center cross-sectional study in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

In undergraduate medical education, patient safety concepts and understanding of medical errors are under-represented. This problem is more evident in low-income settings. The aim of this study was to explore ...

Authors: Mohammed Alser, Bettina Böttcher, Maha Alfaqawi, Abdallah Jlambo, Walaa Abuzubaida and Nasser Abu-El-Noor

Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Program of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM, by its acronym in Spanish) is a program for simultaneous bachelor and doctorate studies (MD/PhD) that enrolls students who show academic excellence and inter...

Authors: Gina Martínez-Flisser, Ana Flisser, Mario Alberto Castro-Guerrero and Tanya Plett-Torres

Knowledge self-monitoring, efficiency, and determinants of self-confidence statement in multiple choice questions in medical students

Multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests are commonly used to evaluate medical students, but they do not assess self-confidence nor penalize lucky guess or harmful behaviors. Based on a scoring method according to...

Authors: Nahid Tabibzadeh, Jimmy Mullaert, Lara Zafrani, Pauline Balagny, Justine Frija-Masson, Stéphanie Marin, Agnès Lefort, Emmanuelle Vidal-Petiot and Martin Flamant

Effect of 24/7 attending coverage in the neonatal intensive care unit on fellow education

There is a current change in type of attending coverage in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) from home calls to 24/7 in house coverage. Effects of this increased attending physician presence on education...

Authors: Mitali Sahni and Anja Mowes

Identifying research priorities for health professions education research in sub-Saharan Africa using a modified Delphi method

Recent increases in health professions education (HPE) research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), though substantial, have predominantly originated from single institutions and remained uncoordinated. A shared rese...

Authors: Susan C. Van Schalkwyk, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Jehan Z. Budak, Michael J. A. Reid and Marietjie R. de Villiers

Evaluation of a pilot immunization curriculum to meet competency training needs of medical residents

Vaccination is the most cost-effective medical intervention known to prevent morbidity and mortality. However, data are limited on the effectiveness of residency programs in delivering immunization knowledge a...

Authors: Rebecca A. Shalansky, Margaret Wu, Shixin Cindy Shen, Colin Furness, Shaun K. Morris, Donna Reynolds, Tom Wong, Barry Pakes and Natasha Crowcroft

Psychological characteristics of students in learning clinical interview skills with the use of virtual patient

The goal of this exploratory study is to analyse which psychological characteristics of students are related to the effectiveness of learning clinical interview skills with the use of a virtual patient (VP).

Authors: Bartosz Zalewski, Maciej Walkiewicz and Mateusz Guziak

Cultivation of humanistic values in medical education through anatomy pedagogy and gratitude ceremony for body donors

One of the most important objectives of modern medical education is to empower medical students to become humanistic clinicians. Human anatomy plays a crucial role in this mission by using cadavers to cause re...

Authors: Kaihua Guo, Tao Luo, Li-Hua Zhou, Dazheng Xu, Guangming Zhong, Huaqiao Wang, Jie Xu and Guoliang Chu

Navigating the qualitative manuscript writing process: some tips for authors and reviewers

Authors: Chris Roberts, Koshila Kumar and Gabrielle Finn

Development of a pediatric ophthalmology academic partnership between Canada and Ethiopia: a situational analysis

Educational capacity building in pediatric ophthalmology is necessary to address the burden of childhood blindness in Ethiopia. Residency and fellowship training at Addis Ababa University (AAU) have been enhan...

Authors: Stephanie N. Kletke, Jibat G. Soboka, Helen Dimaras, Sadik T. Sherief and Asim Ali

DNA sequencing of anatomy lab cadavers to provide hands-on precision medicine introduction to medical students

Medical treatment informed by Precision Medicine is becoming a standard practice for many diseases, and patients are curious about the consequences of genomic variants in their genome. However, most medical st...

Authors: Ramu Anandakrishnan, Tiffany L. Carpenetti, Peter Samuel, Breezy Wasko, Craig Johnson, Christy Smith, Jessica Kim, Pawel Michalak, Lin Kang, Nick Kinney, Arben Santo, John Anstrom, Harold R. Garner and Robin T. Varghese

A comparative study of dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach among Chinese nursing and medical students

Dementia care requires inter-disciplinary collaboration starting from formal health professional education. Yet, little is known about how undergraduate medical and nursing students perceive dementia care in C...

Authors: Yao Wang, Lily Dongxia Xiao and Rong Huang

Phone-based audience response system as an adjunct in orthodontic teaching of undergraduate dental students: a cross-over randomised controlled trial

The advent of electronic teaching facilities improves tutor-student communication. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of Phone-Based Audience Response System (PB-ARS), as an adjunctive pedagogy tool ...

Authors: Fahad Alharbi, Khulud F. Alazmi, Bashar R. El Momani, Lubna Al-Muzian, Mark Wertheimer, Anas Almukhtar and Mohammed Almuzian

Future medical student practice intentions: the South Africa experience

Primary care is a broad spectrum specialty that can serve both urban and rural populations. It is important to examine the specialties students are selecting to enter, future community size they intend to prac...

Authors: Amy Clithero-Eridon, Cameron Crandall and Andrew Ross

Stress and burnout: exploring postgraduate physiotherapy students’ experiences and coping strategies

The impact of stress and burnout in students is an emerging topic. When students perceive that they are unable to cope with stressors, there is increased potential for burnout. To maximise students’ higher edu...

Authors: Tess Brooke, Makaela Brown, Robin Orr and Suzanne Gough

Gender equity at last: a national study of medical students considering a career in rural medicine

The rural medical workforce internationally suffers from a significant imbalance between male- and female- identifying practitioners. Not only do male doctors outnumber female doctors, but additionally female ...

Authors: Caleb Kim, Hanh Ngo and Denese Playford

Determining electrocardiography training priorities for medical students using a modified Delphi method

Although electrocardiography is considered a core learning outcome for medical students, there is currently little curricular guidance for undergraduate ECG training. Owing to the absence of expert consensus o...

Authors: Charle André Viljoen, Rob Scott Millar, Kathryn Manning and Vanessa Celeste Burch

Crafting study tasks among medical students: the role of authentic medical teachers

Though leadership has been highlighted as a salient skill for medical teachers in the medical education literature, the role of authentic leadership style among medical teachers in activating medical students’...

Authors: Tuan Trong Luu and Thao Thanh Vo

Teaching pediatric otoscopy skills to the medical student in the clinical setting: preceptor perspectives and practice

Acute otitis media (AOM) is the most frequent indication for antibiotic treatment of children in the United States. Its diagnosis relies on visualization of the tympanic membrane, a clinical skill acquired thr...

Authors: Caroline R. Paul, Alanna D. Higgins Joyce, Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Meg G. Keeley, Corinne Lehmann, Suzanne M. Schmidt, Kari A. Simonsen and Cynthia Christy

Correction to: “It is this very knowledge that makes us doctors”: an applied thematic analysis of how medical students perceive the relevance of biomedical science knowledge to clinical medicine

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Bonny L. Dickinson, Kristine Gibson, Kristi VanDerKolk, Jeffrey Greene, Claudia A. Rosu, Deborah D. Navedo, Kirsten A. Porter-Stransky and Lisa E. Graves

Peer-led pediatric resuscitation training: effects on self-efficacy and skill performance

Peer-led basic life support training in medical school may be an effective and valued way of teaching medical students, yet no research has been conducted to evaluate the effect on the self-efficacy of medical...

Authors: M. Binkhorst, J M Th Draaisma, Y. Benthem, E. M. R. van de Pol, M. Hogeveen and E. C. T. H. Tan

Impact of general medicine rotation training on the in-training examination scores of 11, 244 Japanese resident physicians: a Nationwide multi-center cross-sectional study

Although general medicine (GM) faculty in Japanese medical schools have an important role in educating medical students, the importance of residents’ rotation training in GM in postgraduate education has not b...

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