Research article
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a long-term condition that affects between 1 and 5% of the general population and lies within the spectrum of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). FMS can be difficult to diagno...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:160
Published on: 12 September 2017
Research article
It is known that medical students suffer from high rates of mental health difficulties. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the need to improve support and treatment services for those in dif...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:159
Published on: 12 September 2017
Correspondence
To describe the design and to present the results of a paediatric and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program adapted to Latin-America.
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:161
Published on: 12 September 2017
Research article
Evaluation of the predictive validity of selected sociodemographic factors and admission criteria for Master’s studies in Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw (MUW).
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:157
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research article
Outcome- or competency-based education is well established in medical and health sciences education. Curricula are based on courses where students develop their competences and assessment is also usually cours...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:158
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research article
A near-peer instructors (NPI) program was designed for 1st year medical students who successfully finished the Anatomy course, in order to develop their didactic ability and teaching skills, mostly for cadaver...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:156
Published on: 8 September 2017
Research article
Frameworks like the CanMEDS model depicting professional roles and specific professional activities provide guidelines for postgraduate education. When medical graduates start their residency, they should poss...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:154
Published on: 7 September 2017
Research article
Despite great advances, China’s postgraduate education faces many problems, for example traditional lecture-based learning (LBL) method provides fewer oppotunities to apply knowledge in a working situation. Ta...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:153
Published on: 7 September 2017
Research article
This study evaluated the influence of continuing education of family health strategy teams by the Ronald McDonald Institute program on the early diagnosis of cancer in children and adolescents.
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:155
Published on: 7 September 2017
Research article
Distance Learning (DL) is a means to overcome the barriers that prevent health workers access to medical education and training sessions to update their knowledge. The main objective of this study is to compar...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:152
Published on: 6 September 2017
Research article
Items must be relevant to ensure item quality and test validity. Since “item relevance” has not been operationalized yet, we developed a rubric to define it. This study explores the influence of this rubric on...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:151
Published on: 5 September 2017
Research article
The proportion of medical doctors involved in research activities is declining. Undergraduate medical research programs are positively associated with medical students’ research interest. Scientific pre-univer...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:150
Published on: 5 September 2017
Research article
Video-based feedback has been shown to aid knowledge retention, skills learning and improve team functionality. We explored the use of video-based feedback and low fidelity simulation for training rural health...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:149
Published on: 31 August 2017
Research article
Progress testing was introduced to the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland in 2013. As there has been a focus in published literature on aspects relating to the format or function of progress tests, ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:148
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research article
During their clerkships, medical students are meant to expand their clinical reasoning skills during their patient encounters. Observation of these encounters could reveal important information on the students...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:147
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research article
The serious consequences of inaccurate diagnosis of acute otitis media have led to a call for greater education to develop proficient pediatric otoscopy skills. Despite the clinical and educational needs, peer...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:146
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research article
Competency-based education has been considered the most important pedagogical trend in Medicine in the last two decades. In clinical contexts, competencies are implemented through Entrustable Professional Acti...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:143
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research article
Analysis of graduation success at the University of Split School of Medicine PhD programs conducted in 2011 revealed that only 11% of students who enrolled and completed their graduate coursework between 1999 ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:144
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research article
The changing healthcare landscape requires physicians to develop new knowledge and skills such as high-value care, systems improvement, population health, and team-based care, which together may be referred to...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:145
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research article
It is known that many trainee doctors around the world experience work satisfaction but also considerable work stress in the training period. Such stress seems to be linked to multiple factors including worklo...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:142
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research article
Little is known about how best to implement portfolio-based learning in medical school. We evaluated the introduction of a formative e-portfolio-based supervision pilot for final year medical students by seeki...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:141
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
Sufficient preparedness is important for transitions to workplace participation and learning in clinical settings. This study aims to analyse medical students’ preparedness for early clerkships using a three-d...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:140
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently healthca...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:136
Published on: 21 August 2017
Research article
Effective interprofessional collaboration (IPC) has been shown to depend on clear role definitions, yet there are important gaps with regard to role clarity in the IPC literature. The goal of this study was to...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:138
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research article
Emotional intelligence has been shown to affect academic performance and perceived stress. But conflicting reports suggest that the relationship between academic performance and emotional intelligence may not ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:139
Published on: 18 August 2017
