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Learner-centered education: ICU residents’ expectations of teaching style and supervision level

If the education of intensive care unit (ICU) residents focuses on individual learning behavior, the faculty’s style of teaching and level of supervision need to be adapted accordingly. The aim of this study w...

Authors: Bjoern Zante and Jennifer M. Klasen

Measuring hygiene competence: the picture-based situational judgement test HygiKo

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020, the crucial role of hygiene in healthcare settings has once again become very clear. For diagnostic and for didactic purposes, standardized and...

Authors: Susanne Katharina Heininger, Maria Baumgartner, Fabian Zehner, Rainer Burgkart, Nina Söllner, Pascal O. Berberat and Martin Gartmeier

Measurement of empathy among health professionals during Syrian crisis using the Syrian empathy scale

Health professionals should have certain degree of empathy to eliminate the pain and suffering of their patients. There is a need to design a scale, which can assess empathy among health professionals and is r...

Authors: Mayssoon Dashash and Mounzer Boubou

Medical errors during training: how do residents cope?: a descriptive study

Physicians’ self-perceived medical errors lead to substantial emotional distress, which has been termed the “second victim phenomenon.” Medical errors during residency are associated with increased burnout and...

Authors: Saba Fatima, Stefania Soria and Nora Esteban- Cruciani

Teaching plain language to medical students: improving communication with disadvantaged patients

Low health literacy underpins health inequality and leads to poor adherence to medical care and higher risk of adverse events and rehospitalization. Communication in plain language, therefore, is an essential ...

Authors: Doron Sagi, Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, Michal Schuster, Ligat Daudi and Mary Catharine Joy Rudolf

Outcomes of blended learning for capacity strengthening of health professionals in Guinea

Quality human resources constitute an essential pillar of an effective health system. This paper analyzes the outcomes of blended learning for post-Ebola capacity strengthening of health professionals in Guinea.

Authors: Tamba Mina Millimouno, Alexandre Delamou, Karifa Kourouma, Jean Michel Kolié, Abdoul Habib Béavogui, Sara Roegiers, Marlon Garcia, Carlos Kiyan Tsunami, Stefaan Van Bastelaere, Wim Van Damme and Thérèse Delvaux

Development and validation of teacher and student questionnaires measuring inhibitors of curriculum viability

Curriculum viability is determined by the degree to which quality standards have or have not been met, and by the inhibitors that affect attainment of those standards. The literature reports many ways to evalu...

Authors: Rehan Ahmed Khan, Annemarie Spruijt, Usman Mahboob, Mohamed Al Eraky and Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer

Chiropractic students’ experiences on the use of virtual radiography simulation: a pilot observational study

Virtual radiography provides students with an opportunity to practise their clinical skills in patient positioning and evaluating radiographic images. The purpose of this pilot study was to introduce Projectio...

Authors: Madeleine Shanahan, Tom Molyneux and Dein Vindigni

The national dental undergraduate clinical skills competition known as the Guanghua Cup: an innovative and effective program that promoted undergraduate dental education in China

The National Dental Undergraduate Clinical Skills Competition known as the Guanghua Cup was held in Guangzhou, China, for three consecutive years from 2017 to 2019 to promote the clinical teaching of undergrad...

Authors: Xiaolan Li, Yanbo Shan, Yangjingwen Liu, Yingwen Lin, Lin Li, Zhengmei Lin, Shuheng Huang and Yun Hong

Tools for measuring technical skills during gynaecologic surgery: a scoping review

Standardised assessment is key to structured surgical training. Currently, there is no consensus on which surgical assessment tool to use in live gynaecologic surgery. The purpose of this review is to identify...

Authors: Louise Inkeri Hennings, Jette Led Sørensen, Jane Hybscmann and Jeanett Strandbygaard

Medical student wellness in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide survey

As United States (US) medical students suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than the general population, the wellness of medical students is particularly salient. One definition describes wellness as ...

Authors: Louis Nikolis, Andrea Wakim, William Adams and Prempreet Bajaj DO

Distance education perception scale for medical students: a validity and reliability study

There are major changes in education strategies as higher education institutions urgently need to adopt distance education tools and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical education is also trying to ...

Authors: Güven Özkaya, Mevlüt Okan Aydin and Züleyha Alper

The future of physician advocacy: a survey of U.S. medical students

Advocacy is a core component of medical professionalism. It is unclear how educators can best prepare trainees for this professional obligation. We sought to assess medical students’ attitudes toward advocacy,...

Authors: Susan Chimonas, Maha Mamoor, Anna Kaltenboeck and Deborah Korenstein

Correction to: Exploring the necessity of establishing a doctor of nursing practice program from experts’ views: a qualitative study

Authors: Mozhgan Rivaz, Paymaneh Shokrollahi, Elahe Setoodegan and Farkhondeh Sharif

Analysis of factors influencing the network teaching effect of college students in a medical school during the COVID-19 epidemic

The purpose of this study is to understand the influencing factors of Chinese college students’ satisfaction with online teaching and psychological pressure on learning during the novel coronavirus epidemic.

Authors: Liang Yu, Long Huang, Hao-ru Tang, Na Li, Ting-ting Rao, Die Hu, Yu-feng Wen and Liu-xia Shi

The relationship between attendance and academic performance of undergraduate medical students during surgical clerkship

The current study aimed to evaluate the previously unexplored correlation between undergraduate medical students’ attendance during their surgical clerkship and their academic performance. It also aimed to exp...

Authors: Hamdi Al Shenawi, Rami Yaghan, Amer Almarabheh and Noor Al Shenawi

Pre-graduation grade inflation in medical training in Turkey: a longitudinal study from 2005 to 2020

Grade inflation which is known as the awarding of higher grades than students deserve in higher education has been observed since the 1960s. There is comprehensive evidence that document the allegations, preva...

Authors: Engin Karadag

Health professionals and students’ experiences of reflective writing in learning: A qualitative meta-synthesis

Reflective writing provides an opportunity for health professionals and students to learn from their mistakes, successes, anxieties, and worries that otherwise would remain disjointed and worthless. This syste...

Authors: Giovanna Artioli, Laura Deiana, Francesco De Vincenzo, Margherita Raucci, Giovanna Amaducci, Maria Chiara Bassi, Silvia Di Leo, Mark Hayter and Luca Ghirotto

The efficacy of virtual distance training of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) brought several challenges in medical education. The aim of our study was to investigate whether virtual distance trainings (VDT) organized during the COVID-19 pandemic at ou...

Authors: Enikő Kovács, András Kállai, Gábor Fritúz, Zsolt Iványi, Vivien Mikó, Luca Valkó, Balázs Hauser and János Gál

Morning report for all: a qualitative study of disseminating case conferences via podcasting

Despite its long-established importance, diagnostic reasoning (DR) education has suffered uneven implementation in medical education. The Clinical Problem Solvers (CPSolvers) podcast has emerged as a novel strate...

Authors: Gregory M. Ow, Lindsey C. Shipley, Saman Nematollahi and Geoffrey V. Stetson

How does narrative medicine impact medical trainees’ learning of professionalism? A qualitative study

Narrative medicine (NM) is an approach involving narrative skills and is regarded as a model for medical humanism and effective medical practice. This study aims to explore how NM impacts medical trainees’ lea...

Authors: Chien-Da Huang, Chang-Chyi Jenq, Kuo-Chen Liao, Shu-Chung Lii, Chi-Hsien Huang and Tsai-Yu Wang

A three-arm single blind randomised control trial of naïve medical students performing a shoulder joint clinical examination

Technological advances have previously been hailed as a new dawn in Higher Education, with the advent of ‘massive open online courses’ (MOOCs) and online learning. Virtual platforms have potential advantages s...

Authors: P. E. Brewer, M. Racy, M. Hampton, F. Mushtaq, J. E. Tomlinson and F. M. Ali

The use of text mining to detect key shifts in Japanese first-year medical student professional identity formation through early exposure to non-healthcare hospital staff

Professional identity formation is nurtured through socialization, driven by interaction with role models, and supported through early clinical exposure (ECE) programmes. Non-healthcare professionals form part...

Authors: Yayoi Shikama, Yasuko Chiba, Megumi Yasuda, Maham Stanyon and Koji Otani

Why do students skip classroom lectures: A single dental school report

Conventional classroom lectures continue to represent a major component of the dental education system to ensure optimum delivery of knowledge. Certain number of students are less compliant and likely to skip ...

Authors: Waleed A. Alamoudi, Azza F. Alhelo, Soulafa A. Almazrooa, Osama M. Felemban, Nada O. Binmadi, Nada A. Alhindi, Sarah A. Ali, Sara K. Akeel, Sana A. Alhamed, Ghadah M. Mansour and Hani H. Mawardi

A novel blended placement model improves dietitian students’ work-readiness and wellbeing and has a positive impact on rural communities: a qualitative study

Clinical placement models that require students to relocate frequently can cause stress, which may impact the student experience and development of work-readiness skills. A blended placement, where placements ...

Authors: Narelle T Greenlees, Sabrina W. Pit, Lynda J Ross, Jo J McCormack, Lana J Mitchell and Lauren T. Williams

Development of consensus-based aims, contents, intended learning outcomes, teaching, and evaluation methods for a history of medicine and pharmacy course for medical and pharmacy students in the Arab world: a Delphi study

History courses are “required” elements among the didactic elements of the medical and pharmacy curricula in many schools around the world. The aim of this study was to develop consensus-based aims, contents, ...

Authors: Ramzi Shawahna

Chinese medical students’ disposition for critical thinking: a mixed methods exploration

Critical thinking (CT) is an essential competency for medical students. This study’s aim was to evaluate Chinese medical students’ disposition for CT and to explore the impact of current trends in medical educ...

Authors: Lei Huang, Angela Pei-Chen Fan, Na Su, Jessica Thai, Russell Olive Kosik and Xudong Zhao

The impact of global health opportunities on residency selection

An increasing number of medical trainees across specialties desire and expect Global Health (GH) experiences during training. It is useful for residency programs to know the impact that offering GH opportuniti...

Authors: Caitlin Kaeppler, Peter Holmberg, Reena P. Tam, Kelsey Porada, Shanna D. Stryker, Kate Conway and Charles Schubert

Understanding junior doctors’ experiences of teaching on the acute take: a qualitative study

New medical graduates are significantly unprepared to manage acutely unwell patients due to limited first-hand clinical exposure in the undergraduate curriculum. Supporting undergraduate learning in the acute ...

Authors: Charlotte Hayden, Jedd Raidan, Jonathan Rees and Abhishek Oswal

Development of the Feedback Quality Instrument: a guide for health professional educators in fostering learner-centred discussions

Face-to-face feedback plays an important role in health professionals’ workplace learning. The literature describes guiding principles regarding effective feedback but it is not clear how to enact these. We ai...

Authors: Christina E. Johnson, Jennifer L. Keating, Michelle Leech, Peter Congdon, Fiona Kent, Melanie K. Farlie and Elizabeth K. Molloy

Preserving professional identities, behaviors, and values in digital professionalism using social networking sites; a systematic review

Despite a rapid rise of use of social media in medical disciplines, uncertainty prevails among healthcare professionals for providing medical content on social media. There are also growing concerns about unpr...

Authors: Shaista Salman Guraya, Salman Yousuf Guraya and Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff

Evaluation of a digitally enhanced cardiac auscultation learning method: a controlled study

Cardiac auscultation remains an efficient and accessible diagnostic tool, especially in resource-limited countries where modern diagnostic devices like cardiac ultrasound are expensive and difficult to access....

Authors: Fred-Cyrille Goethe Doualla, Georges Bediang and Chris Nganou-Gnindjio

The effect of group-dynamics, collaboration and tutor style on the perception of profession-based stereotypes: a quasi-experimental pre- post-design on interdisciplinary tutorial groups

Group processes in inter-professional Problem-Based Learning (iPBL) groups have not yet been studied in the health-care educational context. In this paper we present findings on how group-dynamics, collaborati...

Authors: Eva Hammar Chiriac, Endre Sjøvold and Alexandra Björnstjerna Hjelm

Improvement of the management of mental well-being and empathy in Chinese medical students: a randomized controlled study

Among Chinese medical students, there is a high prevalence of mental health-related issues and low empathy. Effective strategies to improve this situation are lacking. This study aims to investigate the effica...

Authors: Rong Rong, Wei Chen, Zihao Dai, Jingli Gu, Weiying Chen, Yanbin Zhou, Ming Kuang and Haipeng Xiao

Medical students’ perception towards E-learning during COVID 19 pandemic in a high burden developing country

In High-income countries, many academic institutions are using E-learning during COVID 19 Pandemic. However, in limited-resource countries, like Sudan, shifting towards E-learning requires many adjustments to ...

Authors: Mohamed Daffalla-Awadalla Gismalla, Mohamed Soud Mohamed, Omaima Salah O Ibrahim, Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan and Mohamed NaserEldeen Mohamed

Readiness towards online learning among physiotherapy undergraduates

Online learning is an attractive option for educators, especially as means of overcoming the challenges posed by the global pandemic. Although it is best to evaluate student readiness prior to commencement of ...

Authors: Harikrishnan Ranganathan, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Saravana Kumar, Shobha Sharma, Siew Kuan Chua, Nabilah Binti Ahmad and Kamalambal Harikrishnan

Simulation in physiotherapy students for clinical decisions during interaction with people with low back pain: randomised controlled trial

Low back pain (LBP) is a condition with a high global prevalence, which is getting health professionals’ attention, including physiotherapists as they must have the skills to provide treatment that increases t...

Authors: Carolina Sandoval-Cuellar, Margareth Lorena Alfonso-Mora, Adriana Lucia Castellanos-Garrido, Angélica del Pilar Villarraga-Nieto, Ruth Liliana Goyeneche-Ortegón, Martha Lucia Acosta-Otalora, Rocío del Pilar Castellanos-Vega and Elisa Andrea Cobo-Mejía

REAPing the benefits: development and use of a structured evaluation framework to codify learning resources for Global Health professionals

The learning opportunities for global health professionals have expanded rapidly in recent years. The diverse array of learners and wide range in course quality underscore the need for an improved course vetti...

Authors: Meike Schleiff, Elizabeth Hahn, Caroline Dolive, Lillian James, Anant Mishra and Bhakti Hansoti

Literacy as part of professional knowing in a Swedish dental education

Academic reading and writing are seen as self-evident literacy competences in most contemporary higher educations, however, whether students also are introduced to professional literacy of relevance for dentis...

Authors: Viveca Lindberg, Sofia Louca Jounger, Maria Christidis and Nikolaos Christidis

Correction to: A multi-site study on the impact of an advance care planning workshop on attitudes, beliefs and behavioural intentions over a 6-month period

Authors: C. C. Yu, E. J. Koh, J. A. Low, M. L. Ong, A. G. H. Sim, D. Y. Q. Hong, R. Chong, J. Low and R. Ng

Creation of a novel simple heat mapping method for curriculum mapping, using pathology teaching as the exemplar

The undergraduate five-year MBChB programme at the University of Glasgow has a high volume of pathology teaching integrated into the course. The ability to better understand what pathology is taught and when, ...

Authors: Ryan Clark, Sarah Bell, Jennifer Roccisana, Karin A. Oien and Sharon F. Sneddon

Trajectories of learning approaches during a full medical curriculum: impact on clinical learning outcomes

No consensus exists on whether medical students develop towards more deep (DA) or surface learning approaches (SA) during medical training and how this impacts learning outcomes. We investigated whether subgro...

Authors: Giovanni Piumatti, Sissel Guttormsen, Barbara Zurbuchen, Milena Abbiati, Margaret W. Gerbase and Anne Baroffio

A quasi-experimental study to improve health service quality: implementing communication and self-efficacy skills training to primary healthcare workers in two counties in Iran

Service satisfaction ratings from clients are a good indicator of service quality. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of communication skills and self-efficacy training for healthcare workers on...

Authors: Hossein Shahnazi, Marzieh Araban, Mahmood Karimy, Mansooreh Basiri, Ali Ghazvini and LAR Stein

Attitude and knowledge of medical students about organ donation – training needs identified from a Canadian survey

Appropriate training of health professionals has been recommended to increase organ donation rates. Some studies have shown insufficient knowledge among medical students. This survey aims to describe their kno...

Authors: Philippe Robert, Félix Bégin, Sasha Ménard-Castonguay, Anne-Julie Frenette, Hector Quiroz-Martinez, François Lamontagne, Emilie-Prudence Belley-Côté and Frédérick D’Aragon

Comparison of dyad versus individual simulation-based training on stress, anxiety, cognitive load, and performance: a randomized controlled trial

Dyad learning has been shown to be an effective tool for teaching procedural skills, but little is known about how dyad learning may impact the stress, anxiety, and cognitive load that a student experiences wh...

Authors: Eduardo F. Abbott, Torrey A. Laack, Lauren K. Licatino, Christina M. Wood-Wentz, Paul A. Warner, Laurence C. Torsher, James S. Newman and Katie M. Rieck

Essential consultants’ skills and attitudes (Willing CONSULT): a cross-sectional survey

Despite multi-professional collaboration via consultation being increasingly important given the variety of disease diagnoses and treatment, the key elements as consultants remain unclear. The study aimed to i...

Authors: Takahiro Matsuo, Kuniyoshi Hayashi, Yuki Uehara and Nobuyoshi Mori

Change of collective orientation through an interprofessional training with medical students and student nurses depending on presence and professional group

Teamwork is an important success factors for patient treatment. The willingness of a healthcare provider to work in a team can be descripted with the construct of “Collective Orientation” (CO). The level of CO...

Authors: M Flentje, V Hagemann, G Breuer, P Bintaro and H Eismann

Dental education changed by COVID-19: Student’s perceptions and attitudes

Dental students have encountered changes in the teaching format amid the SARS CoV-2 pandemic. This study aims to evaluate the attitudes of dental students of one medical university toward online courses and co...

Authors: Hsin-Chung Cheng, Sao-Lun Lu, Yu-Chun Yen, Pallop Siewchaisakul, Amy Ming-Fang Yen and Sam Li-Sheng Chen

Different approaches to selection of surgical trainees in the European Union

There is an increasing global interest in selection processes for candidates to surgical training. The aim of the present study is to compare selection processes to specialist surgeon training in the European ...

Authors: Kristine Hagelsteen, Hanne Pedersen, Anders Bergenfelz and Chris Mathieu

Impact of guided self-study on learning success in undergraduate physiotherapy students in Switzerland – a feasibility study of a higher education intervention

Guided self-study (G-SS) can be used as a self-directed learning method or self-determined learning that fosters changes in knowledge and skills in a higher physiotherapy education setting. Until now, there ha...

Authors: Slavko Rogan, Jan Taeymans, Stefan Zuber and Evert Zinzen