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Citation: BMC Medical Education 2015 15:114
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Erratum: Clinical skills development in student-run free clinic volunteers: a multi-trait, multi-measure study
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Clinical realism: a new literary genre and a potential tool for encouraging empathy in medical students
Empathy has been re-discovered as a desirable quality in doctors. A number of approaches using the medical humanities have been advocated to teach empathy to medical students. This paper describes a new approa...
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International students’ experience of a western medical school: a mixed methods study exploring the early years in the context of cultural and social adjustment compared to students from the host country
Few studies have addressed the challenges associated with international students as they adapt to studying medicine in a new host country. Higher level institutions have increasing numbers of international stu...
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Exploring resilience in rural GP registrars – implications for training
Resilience can be defined as the ability to rebound from adversity and overcome difficult circumstances. General Practice (GP) registrars face many challenges in transitioning into general practice, and additi...
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Medical education departments: a study of four medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
Many African countries are investing in medical education to address significant health care workforce shortages and ultimately improve health care. Increasingly, training institutions are establishing medical...
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Common concepts in separate domains? Family physicians’ ways of understanding teaching patients and trainees, a qualitative study
Medical education is increasingly expanding into new community teaching settings and the need for clinical teachers is rising. Many physicians taking on this new role are already skilled patient educators. The...
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Puzzle-based versus traditional lecture: comparing the effects of pedagogy on academic performance in an undergraduate human anatomy and physiology II lab
A traditional lecture-based pedagogy conveys information and content while lacking sufficient development of critical thinking skills and problem solving. A puzzle-based pedagogy creates a broader contextual f...
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Voluntary peer-led exam preparation course for international first year students: Tutees’ perceptions
While the number of international students has increased over the last decade, such students face diverse challenges due to language and cultural barriers. International medical students suffer from personal d...
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Learning environment assessments of a single curriculum being taught at two medical schools 10,000 miles apart
Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine (PUGSOM), the first graduate-entry medical school in Malaysia, was established in 2011 in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM),...
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Learning results of GP trainers in a blended learning course on EBM: a cohort study
General practitioners (GPs) experience barriers to the use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) related to a negative attitude and to insufficient knowledge and skills. We therefore designed a blended learning int...
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Using clinical supervision to improve the quality and safety of patient care: a response to Berwick and Francis
After widely publicised investigations into excess patient deaths at Mid Staffordshire hospital the UK government commissioned reports from Robert Francis QC and Professor Don Berwick. Among their recommendati...
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Preparation by mandatory E-modules improves learning of practical skills: a quasi-experimental comparison of skill examination results
Until recently, students at UMC Utrecht Faculty of Medicine prepared for practical skills training sessions by studying recommended literature and making written assignments, which was considered unsatisfactor...
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Why medical students do not choose a career in geriatrics: a systematic review
While the demand for doctors specialised in the medical care of elderly patients is increasing, the interest among medical students for a career in geriatrics is lagging behind.
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Designing faculty development to support the evaluation of resident competency in the intrinsic CanMEDS roles: practical outcomes of an assessment of program director needs
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada mandate that faculty members demonstrate they are evaluating residents on all CanMEDS (Canadian Medical Edu...
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Making medical student course evaluations meaningful: implementation of an intensive course review protocol
Ongoing course evaluation is a key component of quality improvement in higher education. The complexities associated with delivering high quality medical education programs involving multiple lecturers can mak...
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The positive impact of interprofessional education: a controlled trial to evaluate a programme for health professional students
Collaborative interprofessional practice is an important means of providing effective care to people with complex health problems. Interprofessional education (IPE) is assumed to enhance interprofessional prac...
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Longitudinal mentorship to support the development of medical students’ future professional role: a qualitative study
Mentoring has been employed in medical education in recent years, but there is extensive variation in the published literature concerning the goals of mentoring and the role of the mentor. Therefore, there is ...
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How should teaching on whole person medicine, including spiritual issues, be delivered in the undergraduate medical curriculum in the United Kingdom?
Although the General Medical Council recommends that United Kingdom medical students are taught ‘whole person medicine’, spiritual care is variably recognised within the curriculum. Data on teaching delivery a...
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Motivating medical students to do research: a mixed methods study using Self-Determination Theory
It is widely accepted that all medical graduates should understand the uses and methods of rigorous research, with a need to promote research to graduates who will pursue an academic career. This study aimed t...
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A survey study on student preferences regarding pathology teaching in Germany: a call for curricular modernization
Pathology is a discipline that provides the basis of the understanding of disease in medicine. The past decades have seen a decline in the emphasis laid on pathology teaching in medical schools and outdated pa...
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Ureteroscopy and cystoscopy training: comparison between transparent and non-transparent simulators
Simulators have been widely used to train operational skills in urology, how to improve its effectiveness deserves further investigation. In this paper, we evaluated training using a novel transparent anatomic...
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Student perceptions of gamified audience response system interactions in large group lectures and via lecture capture technology
Higher education students have positive attitudes about the use of audience response systems (ARS), but even technology-enhanced lessons can become tiresome if the pedagogical approach is exactly the same with...
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Predictors of students’ self-reported adoption of a smartphone application for medical education in general practice
Smartphones and related applications are increasingly gaining relevance in the healthcare domain. We previously assessed the demands and preferences of medical students towards an application accompanying them...
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Developing a fully integrated tobacco curriculum in medical colleges in India
This paper describes a pioneering effort to introduce tobacco cessation into India’s undergraduate medical college curriculum. This is the first ever attempt to fully integrate tobacco control across all years...
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Building bridges between doctors and patients: the design and pilot evaluation of a training session in argumentation for chronic pain experts
Shared decision–making requires doctors to be competent in exchanging views with patients to identify the appropriate course of action. In this paper we focus on the potential of a course in argumentation as a...
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Exploring the association between parental rearing styles and medical students’ critical thinking disposition in China
Critical thinking is an essential ability for medical students. However, the relationship between parental rearing styles and medical students’ critical thinking disposition has rarely been considered. The aim...
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How to become an expert educator: a qualitative study on the view of health professionals with experience in patient education
Health professionals with the level of competency necessary to provide high-quality patient education are central to meeting patients’ needs. However, research on how competencies in patient education should b...
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Medical students’ personal experience of high-stakes failure: case studies using interpretative phenomenological analysis
Failing a high-stakes assessment at medical school is a major event for those who go through the experience. Students who fail at medical school may be more likely to struggle in professional practice, therefo...
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Steps towards establishing a new medical college in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an insight into medical education in the Kingdom
The percentage of Saudi physicians practicing in the public health sector did not exceed 22.6% in 2009, and did not reach 20% in 2006. This is despite the fact that more than 80% of the Saudi population seeks ...
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What are the most important tasks of tutors during the tutorials in hybrid problem-based learning curricula?
In problem-based learning, a tutor, the quality of the problems and group functioning play a central role in stimulating student learning. This study is conducted in a hybrid medical curriculum where problem-b...
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A model of professional self-identity formation in student doctors and dentists: a mixed method study
Professional self-identity [PSI] can be defined as the degree to which an individual identifies with his or her professional group. Several authors have called for a better understanding of the processes by wh...
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Improving occupational physicians’ adherence to a practice guideline: feasibility and impact of a tailored implementation strategy
Although practice guidelines are important tools to improve quality of care, implementation remains challenging. To improve adherence to an evidence-based guideline for the management of mental health problems...
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Medical school admission test: advantages for students whose parents are medical doctors?
Admission candidates especially in medicine do not represent the socio-demographic proportions of the average population: children of parents with an academic background are highly overrepresented, and those w...
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Are the General Medical Council’s Tests of Competence fair to long standing doctors? A retrospective cohort study
The General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise investigations may involve a test of competence for doctors with performance concerns. Concern has been raised about the suitability of the test format for doc...
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A scoping review of medical education research in family medicine
Little is known about the state of education research within family medicine. As family medicine education models develop, it is important to develop an understanding of the current state of this research and ...
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Beyond silence: protocol for a randomized parallel-group trial comparing two approaches to workplace mental health education for healthcare employees
Mental illness is a significant and growing problem in Canadian healthcare organizations, leading to tremendous personal, social and financial costs for individuals, their colleagues, their employers and their...
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Exploring undergraduate midwifery students’ readiness to deliver culturally secure care for pregnant and birthing Aboriginal women
Culturally secure health care settings enhance accessibility by Aboriginal Australians and improve their satisfaction with service delivery. A culturally secure health service recognises and responds to the le...
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Enhancing motivation with the “virtual” supervisory role: a randomized trial
We aimed to explore the influence of a motivationally-enhanced instructional design on motivation to learn and knowledge, hypothesizing that outcomes would be higher for the enhanced instructional format.
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Past-behavioural versus situational questions in a postgraduate admissions multiple mini-interview: a reliability and acceptability comparison
The Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) mostly uses ‘Situational’ Questions (SQs) as an interview format within a station, rather than ‘Past-Behavioural’ Questions (PBQs), which are most frequently adopted in tradit...
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Medical student selection criteria and socio-demographic factors as predictors of ultimately working rurally after graduation
We have previously demonstrated that both coming from a rural background and spending a year-long clinical rotation in our Rural Clinical School (RCS) have independent and additive effects to increase the like...
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The effects of dissection-room experiences and related coping strategies among Hungarian medical students
Students get their first experiences of dissecting human cadavers in the practical classes of anatomy and pathology courses, core components of medical education. These experiences form an important part of th...
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The impact of formative testing on study behaviour and study performance of (bio)medical students: a smartphone application intervention study
Formative testing can increase knowledge retention but students often underuse available opportunities. Applying modern technology to make the formative tests more attractive for students could enhance the imp...
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How a mobile app supports the learning and practice of newly qualified doctors in the UK: an intervention study
The transition from medical school to the workplace can be demanding, with high expectations placed on newly qualified doctors. The provision of up-to-date and accurate information is essential to support doct...
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Developing a clinical teaching quality questionnaire for use in a university osteopathic pre-registration teaching program
Clinical education is an important component of many health professional training programs. There is a range of questionnaires to assess the quality of the clinical educator however none are in student-led cli...
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Psychiatric patients’ perspectives of student involvement in their care
In the education of professionals in psychiatry, one challenge is to provide clinical placements with opportunities for students to interact and have direct contact with patients. The aim of this study was to ...
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Beyond ethical and curricular guidelines in global health: attitudinal development on international service-learning trips
Health professionals from high-income countries are increasingly becoming involved in international service-learning trips in low and low/middle-income countries. While much has been written about the ethics a...
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Possible reasons why female physicians publish fewer scientific articles than male physicians – a cross-sectional study
The proportion of women in medicine is approaching that of men, but female physicians are still in the minority as regards positions of power. Female physicians are struggling to reach the highest positions in...
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Core intended learning outcomes for tackling health inequalities in undergraduate medicine
Despite there being a concerted effort in recent years to influence what doctors can do to tackle health inequalities in the UK, there has been limited policy focus on what undergraduate students need to learn...
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The transition to competency-based pediatric training in the United Arab Emirates
Although competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. In 2009 in the United Arab Emir...
Citation: BMC Medical Education 2015 15:65
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