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  2. Medical education is increasingly being conducted in community-based teaching sites at diverse locations, making it difficult to provide a consistent curriculum. We conducted a randomized trial to assess wheth...

    Authors: David J Solomon, Gary S Ferenchick, Heather S Laird-Fick and Kevin Kavanaugh

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:27

    Content type: Research article

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  3. The quality of psychosocial assessment of children in consultations varies widely. One reason for this difference is the variability in effective mental health and communication training at undergraduate and p...

    Authors: Debra Nestel, Sharon Taylor and Quentin Spender

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:25

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Little data exist for the effectiveness of communication skills teaching for medical students in non-English speaking countries. We conducted a non-randomized controlled study to examine if a short intensive s...

    Authors: Kei Mukohara, Kazuya Kitamura, Hideki Wakabayashi, Keiko Abe, Juichi Sato and Nobutaro Ban

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:24

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Pencil-and-paper examination formats, and specifically the standard, five-option multiple-choice question, have often been questioned as a means for assessing higher-order clinical reasoning or problem solving...

    Authors: Sylvain P Coderre, Peter Harasym, Henry Mandin and Gordon Fick

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:23

    Content type: Research article

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  6. The Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies first implemented the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in the final MB Examination in Medicine and Therapeutics during the 2000–20...

    Authors: Russell B Pierre, Andrea Wierenga, Michelle Barton, J Michael Branday and Celia DC Christie

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:22

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Medical ethics has existed since the time of Hippocrates. However, formal training in bioethics did not become established until a few decades ago. Bioethics has gained a strong foothold in health sciences in ...

    Authors: Temidayo O Ogundiran

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:21

    Content type: Debate

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  8. The practice of Evidence-based Medicine requires that clinicians assess the validity of published research and then apply the results to patient care. We wanted to assess whether our soon-to-graduate medical s...

    Authors: George Bergus, Scott Vogelgesang, Janeta Tansey, Ellen Franklin and Ronald Feld

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:20

    Content type: Research article

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  9. While previous authors have emphasized the importance of integrating and reinforcing evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills in residency, there are few published examples of such curricula. We designed an EBM cu...

    Authors: David H Thom, Julie Haugen, Peter S Sommers and Peter Lovett

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:19

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The medical specialities chosen by doctors for their careers play an important part in the workforce planning of health-care services. However, there is little theoretical understanding of how different medica...

    Authors: KV Petrides and IC McManus

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:18

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Engaging practicing physicians in educational strategies that reinforce guideline adoption and improve the quality of healthcare may be difficult. Push technologies such as email offer new opportunities to eng...

    Authors: Maziar Abdolrasulnia, Blanche C Collins, Linda Casebeer, Terry Wall, Claire Spettell, Midge N Ray, Norman W Weissman and Jeroan J Allison

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:17

    Content type: Research article

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  12. The objective of this study is to investigate the perceptions of first and third year medical students on self-study and reporting processes of Problem-based Learning (PBL) sessions and their usage of learning...

    Authors: Berna Musal, Yucel Gursel, H Cahit Taskiran, Sema Ozan and Arif Tuna

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:16

    Content type: Research article

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  14. The aim of this study was to research the feasibility of training mental health consumers as tutors for 4th year medical students in psychiatry.

    Authors: Cathy Owen and Rebecca E Reay

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:14

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Involving patients in decision making on diagnostic procedures requires a basic level of statistical thinking. However, innumeracy is prevalent even among physicians. In medical teaching the 2 × 2 table is wid...

    Authors: Anke Steckelberg, Andrea Balgenorth, Jürgen Berger and Ingrid Mühlhauser

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:13

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Medical training is increasingly occurring in the ambulatory setting for final year medical students and residents. This study looks to identify if gender, school, level of training, or speciality affects lear...

    Authors: Karen W Schultz, John Kirby, Dianne Delva, Marshall Godwin, Sarita Verma, Richard Birtwhistle, Chris Knapper and Rachelle Seguin

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:12

    Content type: Research article

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  20. It is not clear that teaching specific history taking, physical examination and patient teaching techniques to medical students results in durable behavioural changes. We used a quasi-experimental design that ...

    Authors: David J Solomon, Heather S Laird-Fick, Carole W Keefe, Margaret E Thompson and Mary Margaret Noel

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:8

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Web-based delivery of educational programmes is becoming increasingly popular and is expected to expand, especially in medicine. The successful implementation of these programmes is reliant on their ability to...

    Authors: Michele Langlois, Richard F Heller, Richard Edwards, Georgios Lyratzopoulos and John Sandars

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:7

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Teratogen information services have been developed around the world to disseminate information regarding the safety of maternal exposures during pregnancy. The Motherisk Program in Toronto, Canada, fields thou...

    Authors: Adrienne Einarson, Andrew Park and Gideon Koren

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:6

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Case reports are frequently published in the health care literature, however advice on preparing such reports using the "instructions to authors" pages of journals is alleged to be limited. However, to our kno...

    Authors: Olanrewaju Sorinola, Olufemi Olufowobi, Aravinthan Coomarasamy and Khalid S Khan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:4

    Content type: Research article

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  25. A Family Day program was implemented at Indiana University School of Medicine to educate the families and friends of in-coming medical students about the rigors of medical school and the factors that contribut...

    Authors: Mary A Bell, Paula S Smith, James J Brokaw and Herbert E Cushing

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:3

    Content type: Research article

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  26. The need for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and holistic approaches in allopathic medical school curricula has been well articulated. Despite increased CAM instruction, feasible and validated ins...

    Authors: Désirée Lie and John Boker

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:2

    Content type: Research article

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  27. The last decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of biomedical knowledge. Despite this, fashions in medical education over the same period have shifted away from factual (didactic) teaching and towards contextu...

    Authors: Richard J Epstein

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2004 4:1

    Content type: Debate

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  29. Despite the importance of continuing medical education (CME) for GPs, there has been little research into how providers decide what types of CME to deliver to GPs. This study aimed to identify factors affectin...

    Authors: Tania Winzenberg and Nick Higginbotham

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:11

    Content type: Research article

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  31. The small group tutorial is a cornerstone of problem-based learning. By implication, the role of the facilitator is of pivotal importance. The present investigation canvassed perceptions of facilitators with d...

    Authors: Michelle McLean

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:9

    Content type: Research article

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  32. An important goal for medical education today is professional development including gender equality and awareness of gender issues. Are medical teachers prepared for this task? We investigated gender awareness...

    Authors: Gunilla Risberg, Katarina Hamberg and Eva E Johansson

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:8

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Clinicians need self-directed learning skills to maintain competency. The objective of this study was to develop and implement a curriculum to teach physicians self-directed learning skills during inpatient wa...

    Authors: Dawn MT Bravata, Stephen J Huot, Hadley S Abernathy, Kelley M Skeff and Dena MC Bravata

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:7

    Content type: Research article

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  37. The long-term effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on factual knowledge is poorly investigated. We took advantage of a previous randomised comparison between PBL and traditional teaching in a 3rd year course to...

    Authors: Stefan Herzig, Ralph-Mario Linke, Bent Marxen, Ulf Börner and Wolfram Antepohl

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:3

    Content type: Research article

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  38. Previous studies have shown that Norwegian public health physicians do not systematically and explicitly use scientific evidence in their practice. They work in an environment that does not encourage the integ...

    Authors: Louise Forsetlund, Peter Bradley, Lisa Forsen, Lena Nordheim, Gro Jamtvedt and Arild Bjørndal

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:2

    Content type: Research article

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  39. Diagnostic reasoning is a key competence of physicians. We explored the effects of knowledge, practice and additional clinical information on strategy, redundancy and accuracy of diagnosing a peripheral neurol...

    Authors: Ralph F Bloch, Daniel Hofer, Sabine Feller and Maria Hodel

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2003 3:1

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Objective criteria for predicting residents' performance do not exist. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that global assessment by an intern selection committee (ISC) would correlate with th...

    Authors: Philip O Ozuah

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2002 2:7

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Mortality rates in Western Europe have fallen significantly over the last 50 years. Maternal mortality now averages 10 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births but in some of the Newly Independent States of the...

    Authors: Richard B Johanson, Vijay Menon, Ethel Burns, Eduard Kargramanya, Vardges Osipov, Musheg Israelyan, Karine Sargsyan, Sarah Dobson and Peter Jones

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2002 2:5

    Content type: Research article

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  46. The effectiveness of teaching critical appraisal to students of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has not been studied. In this study we attempt to determine if a workshop for final year students at...

    Authors: Edward Mills, Taras Hollyer, Ron Saranchuk and Kumanan Wilson

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2002 2:2

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Little is known about using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in physical diagnosis courses. The purpose of this study was to describe student performance on an OSCE in a physical diagnosis ...

    Authors: Claus Hamann, Kevin Volkan, Mary B Fishman, Ronald C Silvestri, Steven R Simon and Suzanne W Fletcher

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2002 2:1

    Content type: Research article

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  50. Providing high-quality clinical cases is important for teaching radiology. We developed, implemented and evaluated a program for a university hospital to support this task.

    Authors: Martin Dugas, Christoph Trumm, Axel Stäbler, Ernst Pander, Walter Hundt, Jurgen Scheidler, Roland Brüning, Thomas Helmberger, Tobias Waggershauser, Matthias Matzko and Maximillian Reiser

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2001 1:5

    Content type: Research article

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