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Efficacy of pedagogical framework in neonatal resuscitation skill learning in a resource-limited setting: a randomized controlled trial

The educational efficacy in neonatal resuscitation relies on the subject and teaching strategies. Therefore, it is imperative to test diverse educational methods if they are more instructive to engage students...

Authors: Mishal Liaqat, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Maryam Altaf, Sadia Khan, Syed Amir Gilani and Iram Liaqat

Medical student exposure to women’s health concepts and practices: a content analysis of curriculum at Canadian medical schools

Women’s health (WH) includes a broad array of concerns and challenges that affect health across the lifespan. Considerable research shows that women continue to experience disparities in access to and quality ...

Authors: Natalie N. Anderson and Anna R. Gagliardi

Deterioration in hygiene behavior among fifth-year medical students during the placement of intravenous catheters: a prospective cohort comparison of practical skills

The American Association of Medical Colleges has defined peripheral intravenous cannulation as one of the eight practical skills that a medical student should possess upon graduation. Since following a standar...

Authors: Annika Meyer, Jakob Schreiber, Julian Brinkmann, Andreas R. Klatt, Christoph Stosch and Thomas Streichert

Transfer of communication teaching skills from university to the clinical workplace – does it happen? A mixed methods study

Communication skills learned in the classroom do not transfer easily into clinical practice because they are not reinforced by teachers in the workplace setting and because lack of faculty training restricts t...

Authors: Jane Ege Møller, Louise Binow Kjaer, Emma Helledie, Lone Folmer Nielsen and Bente Vigh Malling

A qualitative study exploring experiences and challenges of combining clinical academic training with family life

Concerns are being expressed around the lack of diversity at higher levels of clinical academia. This study aimed to explore experiences and challenges associated with combining clinical academic careers with ...

Authors: Diane Trusson and Emma Rowley

A qualitative exploration of medical students’ placement experiences with telehealth during COVID-19 and recommendations to prepare our future medical workforce

Clinical practice is increasingly being digitalised. Little is known about how medical students learn and were exposed to telehealth during COVID-19. This is particularly important if we wish to further improv...

Authors: Sabrina W. Pit, Sue Velovski, Krista Cockrell and Jannine Bailey

Pharmacists’ clinical knowledge and practice in the safe use of contraceptives: real knowledge vs. self-perception and the implications

Pharmacists are often the first healthcare professionals that patients contact with their illnesses and requests for medical information, which is enhanced following the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Community pha...

Authors: Ana Golić Jelić, Ljiljana Tasić, Ranko Škrbić, Valentina Marinković, Svjetlana Stoisavljević Šatara, Nataša Stojaković, Vanda Marković Peković and Brian Godman

The impact of artificial intelligence on clinical education: perceptions of postgraduate trainee doctors in London (UK) and recommendations for trainers

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly used in clinical practice. Although there is robust evidence that AI innovations can improve patient care, reduce clinicians’ workload and increase ef...

Authors: Maya Banerjee, Daphne Chiew, Keval T. Patel, Ieuan Johns, Digby Chappell, Nick Linton, Graham D. Cole, Darrel P. Francis, Jo Szram, Jack Ross and Sameer Zaman

Flexible e-learning video approach to improve fundus examination skills for medical students: a mixed-methods study

Training for the fundus examination using traditional teaching is challenging, resulting in low generalist physicians’ confidence in performing the funduscopic examination. There is growing evidence suggesting...

Authors: Kiyoshi Shikino, Claudia A. Rosu, Daiki Yokokawa, Shingo Suzuki, Yusuke Hirota, Katsumi Nishiya and Masatomi Ikusaka

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

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

Peer review in team-based learning: influencing feedback literacy

Peer review in Team-based learning (TBL) exists for three key reasons: to promote reflection on individual behaviours; provide opportunities to develop professional skills; and prevent ‘free riders’ who fail t...

Authors: Annette Burgess, Chris Roberts, Andrew Stuart Lane, Inam Haq, Tyler Clark, Eszter Kalman, Nicole Pappalardo and Jane Bleasel

Sustainability in quality improvement (SusQI): a case-study in undergraduate medical education

There is a pressing need for more sustainable healthcare. UK medical graduates are required to apply social, economic, and environmental principles of sustainability to their practice. The Centre for Sustainab...

Authors: Philippa Clery, Stuart d’Arch Smith, Oliver Marsden and Kathleen Leedham-Green

Are medical students in Palestine adequately trained to care for individuals with autism spectrum disorders? A multicenter cross-sectional study of their familiarity, knowledge, confidence, and willingness to learn

Medical students are the future workforce of physicians in primary, secondary, tertiary, and highly specialized care centers. The present study was undertaken to assess familiarity, knowledge, confidence, of m...

Authors: Ramzi Shawahna, Mohammad Jaber, Nourhan Yahya, Firdaous Jawadeh and Shahd Rawajbeh

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

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

Building a virtual summer research experience in cancer for high school and early undergraduate students: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a unique challenge for summer research programs in 2020, particularly for programs aimed at hands-on experience for younger trainees. The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Co...

Authors: Timothy W. Corson, Shannon M. Hawkins, Elmer Sanders, Jessica Byram, Leigh-Ann Cruz, Jacob Olson, Emily Speidell, Rose Schnabel, Adhitya Balaji, Osas Ogbeide, Julie Dinh, Amy Hinshaw, Laura Cummings, Vicki Bonds and Harikrishna Nakshatri

Evaluating the effect of interventions for strengthening non-physician anesthetists’ education in Ethiopia: a pre- and post-evaluation study

Access to safe surgery has been recognized as an indispensable component of universal health coverage. A competent anesthesia workforce is a prerequisite for safe surgical care. In Ethiopia, non-physician anes...

Authors: Yohannes Molla Asemu, Tegbar Yigzaw, Firew Ayalew Desta, Fedde Scheele and Thomas van den Akker

How do they learn: types and characteristics of medical and healthcare student engagement in a simulation-based learning environment

Student engagement can predict successful learning outcomes and academic development. The expansion of simulation-based medical and healthcare education creates challenges for educators, as they must help stud...

Authors: Yashuang Wang and Yan Ji

I’m No Superman: fostering physician resilience through guided group discussion of Scrubs

Almost half of trainees experience burnout during their career. Despite the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommendation that training programs enact well-being curricula, there i...

Authors: Arthur Holtzclaw, Jack Ellis and Christopher Colombo

Digital learning in medical education: comparing experiences of Malaysian and Japanese students

Medical education has undergone a transformation from conventional to digital learning, enabling learning without any time and place restrictions. Nevertheless, the actual trends of usage and its impact on lea...

Authors: L. Jun Xin, A. A. Ahmad Hathim, N. Jing Yi, A. Reiko and I. Noor Akmal Shareela

Clinically contextualised ECG interpretation: the impact of prior clinical exposure and case vignettes on ECG diagnostic accuracy

ECGs are often taught without clinical context. However, in the clinical setting, ECGs are rarely interpreted without knowing the clinical presentation. We aimed to determine whether ECG diagnostic accuracy wa...

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

Exploring healthcare students’ interprofessional teamwork in primary care simulation scenarios: collaboration to create a shared treatment plan

Primary care providers assume responsibility for patients with increasingly complex problems requiring interprofessional collaboration. Introducing interprofessional education in healthcare curricula prepares ...

Authors: Lene Lunde, Anne Moen, Rune B. Jakobsen, Elin O. Rosvold and Anja M. Brænd

Translating and validating a Japanese version of the Patient Care Ownership Scale: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Patient care ownership (PCO) is an essential component in medical professionalism and is crucial for delivering high-quality care. The 15-item PCO Scale (PCOS) is a validated questionnaire for quantifying PCO ...

Authors: Hirohisa Fujikawa, Daisuke Son, Kayo Kondo, Mia Djulbegovic, Yousuke Takemura and Masato Eto

COVID-19 and dental distance-based education: students’ perceptions in an Italian University

The aim of the study was to analyze the perception of dental faculties students regarding the complete transition to distance-based education (DE) and the adaptation of this educational strategy, due to Covid-...

Authors: Paola Di Giacomo and Carlo Di Paolo

A longitudinal investigation of mental health, perceived learning environment and burdens in a cohort of first-year German medical students’ before and during the COVID-19 ‘new normal’

Medical students’ propensity to develop mental morbidity has been described for decades but remains unresolved. To assess student mental health person-centred and longitudinally, we have been investigating a c...

Authors: Ann-Kathrin Schindler, Sabine Polujanski and Thomas Rotthoff

The direct and indirect effects of clinical empathy on well-being among pre-medical students: a structural equation model approach

Empathy is a well-established facet of clinical competency that research suggests is associated with enhanced medical student well-being. Since little is known about empathy and well-being before students enter m...

Authors: Kelly Rhea MacArthur, Clare L. Stacey, Sarah Harvey and Jonathan Markle

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