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  1. Uganda has an imbalanced distribution of the health workforce, which may be influenced by the specialty career preferences of medical students. In spite of this, there is inadequate literature concerning the f...

    Authors: Job Kuteesa, Victor Musiime, Ian G. Munabi, Aloysius G. Mubuuke, Robert Opoka, David Mukunya and Sarah Kiguli
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:215
  2. The general medicine in-training examination (GM-ITE) is designed to objectively evaluate the postgraduate clinical competencies (PGY) 1 and 2 residents in Japan. Although the total GM-ITE scores tended to be ...

    Authors: Yuji Nishizaki, Keigo Nozawa, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Taro Shimizu, Tomoya Okubo, Yu Yamamoto, Ryota Konishi and Yasuharu Tokuda
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:214
  3. Leaders in postgraduate medical education are responsible for implementing educational change. Although difficulties in implementing change are described both in the general leadership literature as well as in...

    Authors: Hanna Wijk, Kristiina Heikkilä, Sari Ponzer, Lars Kihlström and Jonas Nordquist
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:213
  4. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has led to global disruption of healthcare. Many students volunteered to provide clinical support. Volunteering to work in a clinical capacity was a unique medical educati...

    Authors: Matthew H. V. Byrne, James Ashcroft, Laith Alexander, Jonathan C. M. Wan, Anmol Arora, Megan E. L. Brown, Anna Harvey, Andrew Clelland, Nicholas Schindler, Cecilia Brassett and Rachel Allan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:211
  5. Teaching and learning Community-Based Medical Education (CBME) requires the active engagement of students in various activities to cover planned curricular content. CBME being multifaceted involves careful app...

    Authors: Sonali G. Choudhari, Abhay M. Gaidhane, Priti Desai, Tripti Srivastava, Vedprakash Mishra and Syed Quazi Zahiruddin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:210
  6. The influence of music on the performance of surgical procedures such as laparoscopy is controversial and methodologically difficult to quantify. Here, outcome measurements using laparoscopic box training tool...

    Authors: Lisa Katharina Nees, Philipp Grozinger, Natalie Orthmann, Thomas Maximilian Deutsch, André Hennigs, Christoph Domschke, Markus Wallwiener, Joachim Rom and Fabian Riedel
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:209
  7. Residency programs have been impacted by the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this study we aim to investigate and evaluate the impact of the pandemic on residents as well as residency training...

    Authors: Eman Alshdaifat, Amer Sindiani, Wasim Khasawneh, Omar Abu-Azzam, Aref Qarqash, Hassan Abushukair and Nail Obeidat
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:208
  8. Even physicians who routinely work in complex, dynamic practices may be unprepared to optimally manage challenging critical events. High-fidelity simulation can realistically mimic critical clinically relevant...

    Authors: Elizabeth Sinz, Arna Banerjee, Randolph Steadman, Matthew S. Shotwell, Jason Slagle, William R. McIvor, Laurence Torsher, Amanda Burden, Jeffrey B. Cooper, Samuel DeMaria Jr, Adam I. Levine, Christine Park, David M. Gaba, Matthew B. Weinger and John R. Boulet
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:207
  9. University students have limited opportunities to gain healthcare clinical exposure within an academic curriculum. Furthermore, traditional pre-medical clinical experiences like shadowing lack active learning ...

    Authors: Karen F. Miller, Rishub K. Das, Ciera D. Majors, Hadassah H. Paz, Ayana N. Robinson, Veronica F. Hamilton, Brittney E. Jackson, Sean P. Collins and Alan B. Storrow
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:206
  10. Implicit bias instruction is becoming more prevalent in health professions education, with calls for skills-based curricula moving from awareness and recognition to management of implicit bias. Evidence sugges...

    Authors: Cristina M. Gonzalez, Joseph H. Grochowalski, Ramya J. Garba, Shacelles Bonner and Paul R. Marantz
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:205
  11. Medical students often struggle to understand the relevance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) to their clinical practice, yet it is a competence that all students must develop prior to graduation. Objective str...

    Authors: B. Kumaravel, C. Stewart and D. Ilic
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:204
  12. High-quality patient care is a complex phenomenon that requires collaboration among healthcare professionals. Research has shown that Interprofessional Education (IPE) carries promise to improve collaborative ...

    Authors: Nabil Sulaiman, Youssef Rishmawy, Amal Hussein, Maha Saber-Ayad, Hamzah Alzubaidi, Sausan Al Kawas, Hayder Hasan and Salman Y. Guraya
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:203
  13. Video-based teaching has been part of medical education for some time but 360° videos using a virtual reality (VR) device are a new medium that offer extended possibilities. We investigated whether adding a 36...

    Authors: Vera Arents, Pieter C. M. de Groot, Veerle M. D. Struben and Karlijn J. van Stralen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:202
  14. As the numbers of people with dementia worldwide rises, there is a need for improved knowledge and awareness about the condition across the healthcare workforce. There are concerns that traditional models of h...

    Authors: Yvonne Feeney, Stephanie Daley, Breda Flaherty and Sube Banerjee
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:201
  15. Medical students must meet curricular expectations and pass national licensing examinations to become physicians. However, no previous studies explicitly modeled stages of medical students acquiring basic scie...

    Authors: Ling Wang, Heather S. Laird-Fick, Carol J. Parker and David Solomon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:200
  16. Medical schools have evolved toward competency-based education and active learner-centered strategies. Medical informatics course was introduced in 2011 in the 3rd year at the College of Medicine (CoM), King S...

    Authors: Ahmed I. Albarrak, Nasriah Zakaria, Jwaher Almulhem, Samina A. Khan and Norshahriza Abdul Karim
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:199
  17. To evaluate the self-confidence of undergraduate dental students in relation to oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) to assess the teaching curriculum at Kuwait University using a validated questionnaire orig...

    Authors: Mohammad Kamal and Mohammad Abdulwahab
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:198
  18. It is recognised that newly qualified doctors feel unprepared in many areas of their daily practice and that there is a gap between what students learn during medical school and their clinical responsibilities...

    Authors: Patrick McCrossan, Dara O’Donoghue, Alf Nicholson and Naomi McCallion
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:197
  19. Communication of bad news plays a critical role in the physician-patient relationship, and a variety of consensus guidelines have been developed to this purpose, including the SPIKES protocol. However, little ...

    Authors: Kátia Laureano dos Santos, Paola Gremigni, Giulia Casu, Victor Zaia and Erik Montagna
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:196
  20. Proper specimen collection is central to improving patient care by ensuring optimal yield of diagnostic tests, guiding appropriate management, and targeting treatment. The purpose of this article is to describ...

    Authors: Jennifer Kue, Ashley Bersani, Kurt Stevenson, Getnet Yimer, Shu-Hua Wang, Wondwossen Gebreyes, Carmen Hazim, Matthew Westercamp, Michael Omondi, Berhanu Amare, Gebrie Alebachew, Rajiha Abubeker, Surafel Fentaw, Eyasu Tigabu, Denise Kirley, Daniel Vanderende…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:195
  21. We combined anatomy with imaging, transformed the 2D information of various imaging techniques into 3D information, and form the assessment system of real medical imaging cases in order to make up for the defi...

    Authors: Quan Yuan, Xiaomei Chen, Jian Zhai, Yadi Chen, Qingxiang Liu, Zhongxiao Tan, Gao Chen, Kangle Zhuang, Jianying Zhang, Xi Xu, Di Qiang and Xuefei Shao
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:194
  22. The learning curve cumulative summation test (LC CUSUM test) allows to define an individualized learning curve and determine the moment when clinical proficiency is attained. After acquisition of the skills, t...

    Authors: C. Verhaeghe, H. El Hachem, L. Inchboard, R. Corroenne, C. Dreux, P. Jeanneteau, G. Legendre, P. Descamps, P. Saulnier, P. May-Panloup and P. E. Bouet
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:193
  23. Feedback is an essential element of learning. Despite this, students complain about receiving too little feedback in medical examinations, e.g., in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). This stu...

    Authors: J. Sterz, S. Linßen, M. C. Stefanescu, T. Schreckenbach, L. B. Seifert and M. Ruesseler
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:192
  24. The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) is a recognized tool for assessment of attitudes towards communication learning. In the original version, it consists of 26 items divided on theoretical assumptio...

    Authors: Piotr Przymuszała, Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, Patrycja Marciniak-Stępak, Łucja Zielińska-Tomczak, Martyna Piszczek, Jan Jasiński and Ryszard Marciniak
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:190
  25. Patients presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain should be managed according to guideline recommendations. Serious games can be used to train clinical reasoning. However, only few studies have...

    Authors: Tobias Raupach, Insa de Temple, Angélina Middeke, Sven Anders, Caroline Morton and Nikolai Schuelper
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:189
  26. It is uncommon for faculty development professionals to assess faculty attitudes towards their teaching responsibilities and their perceived obstacles to teaching effectiveness. The purposes of this study were...

    Authors: Abigail Grover Snook, Asta B. Schram and Brett D. Jones
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:188
  27. An innovative medical student elective combined student-directed, faculty-supported online learning with COVID-19 response field placements. This study evaluated students’ experience in the course, the curricu...

    Authors: Brandon S. A. Altillo, Megan Gray, Swati B. Avashia, Aliza Norwood, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Clarissa Johnston, Darlene Bhavnani, Hemali Patel, Coburn H. Allen, Sarayu Adeni, Nicholas D. Phelps and Tim Mercer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:186
  28. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are those activities that a health professional can perform without direct supervision in a defined environment. Bridging the gap between competencies and learning ob...

    Authors: Mostafa Dehghani Poudeh, Aeen Mohammadi, Rita Mojtahedzadeh and Nikoo Yamani
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:185
  29. Medical simulation trainings lead to an improvement in patient care by increasing technical and non-technical skills, procedural confidence and medical knowledge. For structured simulation-based trainings, obj...

    Authors: Andreas Zoller, Tobias Hölle, Martin Wepler, Peter Radermacher and Benedikt L. Nussbaum
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:184
  30. The undergraduate program of psychiatry has been widely established in recent years to improve the education and recruitment of psychiatrists in China. We aim to investigate the career choice of medical studen...

    Authors: Ying-Jian Zhang, Kai Yuan, Su-Hua Chang, Wei Yan, Jian-Yu Que, Jia-Hui Deng, Yi-Miao Gong, Jia-Ming Luo, Shi-Chang Yang, Cui-Xia An, Yi-Min Kang, Hua-Shan Xu, Yi-Ming Wang, Li-Fang Zhang, Wen-Fang Zhang, Yin-Li Song…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:183
  31. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which a longitudinal student-run clinic (SRC) is meeting its stated learning objectives, including providing critical community services and developing p...

    Authors: Nathan G. Rockey, Taylor M. Weiskittel, Katharine E. Linder, Jennifer L. Ridgeway and Mark L. Wieland
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:182
  32. The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a useful means of generating meaningful feedback. OSCE feedback may be in various forms (written, face to face and audio or video recordings). Studies on OSCE f...

    Authors: Chin Fang Ngim, Paul Douglas Fullerton, Vanassa Ratnasingam, Valliammai Jayanthi Thirunavuk Arasoo, Nisha Angela Dominic, Cindy Pei Sze Niap and Sivakumar Thurairajasingam
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:180
  33. The humanities have long been shown to play an important role in the medical school curriculum. However, few studies have looked into the opinions of medical students on the usefulness and necessity of the hum...

    Authors: Loukia Petrou, Emma Mittelman, Oluwapelumi Osibona, Mona Panahi, Joanna M. Harvey, Yusuf A. A. Patrick and Kathleen E. Leedham-Green
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:179
  34. The correct performance of a structured facial examination presents a fundamental clinical skill to detect facial pathologies. However, many students are not adequately prepared in this basic clinical skill. M...

    Authors: Arne Nelskamp, Benedikt Schnurr, Alexandra Germanyuk, Jasmina Sterz, Jonas Lorenz, Robert Sader, Miriam Rüsseler and Lukas B. Seifert
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:178
  35. Use of healthcare terminology is a potential barrier to interprofessional education (IPE). This study describes how junior learners perceive and classify healthcare terminology in IPE settings.

    Authors: Shamara Nadarajah, Arden Azim, Derya Uzelli Yılmaz and Matthew Sibbald
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:177
  36. The educational beliefs of medical educators influence their teaching practices. Insight into these beliefs is important for medical schools to improve the quality of education they provide students and to gui...

    Authors: Marleen W. Ottenhoff- de Jonge, Iris van der Hoeven, Neil Gesundheit, Roeland M. van der Rijst and Anneke W. M. Kramer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:176
  37. Point-of-care ultrasound is becoming a ubiquitous diagnostic tool, and there has been increasing interest to teach novice practitioners. One of the challenges is the scarcity of qualified instructors, and with...

    Authors: Elaine Situ-LaCasse, Josie Acuña, Dang Huynh, Richard Amini, Steven Irving, Kara Samsel, Asad E. Patanwala, David E. Biffar and Srikar Adhikari
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:175
  38. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical schools suspended clinical rotations. This displacement of medical students from wards has limited experiential learning. Concurrently, outpatient practices are ex...

    Authors: Alec M. Weber, Anoushka Dua, Kitae Chang, Hamsitha Jupalli, Farsha Rizwan, Abhishek Chouthai and Catherine Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:174
  39. The importance of wellbeing of family medicine residents is recognized in accreditation requirements which call for a supportive and respectful learning environment; however, concerns exist about learner mistr...

    Authors: Olga Szafran, Wayne Woloschuk, Jacqueline M. I. Torti and Maria F. Palacios Mackay
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:173
  40. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are increasingly used in undergraduate medical education (UME). We conducted a scoping review to summarize the evidence for the use of EPAs in clinical rotations in UME.

    Authors: Severin Pinilla, Eric Lenouvel, Andrea Cantisani, Stefan Klöppel, Werner Strik, Sören Huwendiek and Christoph Nissen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:172
  41. The demographic profile of practicing physicians is changing as more female medical students are graduating and practicing in the field. While the education received may not differ by gender, studies have show...

    Authors: Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer and Andrew L. Hedges
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:171
  42. Repair of margin-involving eyelid lacerations is a challenge for beginning ophthalmology residents, yet no commercially-available simulation models exist for learning this skill. The objective of the study was...

    Authors: Jiawei Zhao, Meleha Ahmad, Emily W. Gower, Roxana Fu, Fasika A. Woreta and Shannath L. Merbs
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:170
  43. CPD educators and CME providers would benefit from further insight regarding barriers and supports in obtaining CME, including sources of information about CME. To address this gap, we sought to explore challe...

    Authors: Maureen O’Brien Pott, Anissa S. Blanshan, Kelly M. Huneke, Barbara L. Baasch Thomas and David A. Cook
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:168
  44. The fact that pharmacists are in the front line of patients’ care gives a great responsibility to focus on education and training of pharmacy students to build a ‘patient-centered’ clinicians. Unfortunately, p...

    Authors: Rana Abu Farha, Eman Elayeh, Needa Zalloum, Tareq Mukattash, Eman Alefishat, Maysa Suyagh and Iman Basheti
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:161
  45. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Harrison D. Pravder, Liana Langdon-Embry, Rafael J. Hernandez, Nicholas Berbari, Steven P. Shelov and Wendy L. Kinzler
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:160

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Education 2021 21:118

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