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  1. Nursing interns are an important backup force for nursing professionals, so efforts to strengthen their patient safety (PS) competencies are a major priority. To do so requires assessing the strengths and weak...

    Authors: Fei Fei Huang, Xiao Ying Shen, Xue Lei Chen, Li Ping He, Su Fen Huang and Jin Xiu Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:32
  2. The health advocate role is an essential and underappreciated component of the CanMEDs competency framework. It is tied to the concept of social accountability and its application to medical schools for prepar...

    Authors: Suzanne Boroumand, Michael J. Stein, Mohammad Jay, Julia W. Shen, Michael Hirsh and Shafik Dharamsi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:28
  3. The importance of medical professionalism has been well documented in the literature. Cultural background affects the constituents of professionalism. However, few studies have explored the domains of medical ...

    Authors: Warren Fong, Yu Heng Kwan, Sungwon Yoon, Jie Kie Phang, Julian Thumboo, Ying Ying Leung and Swee Cheng Ng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:27
  4. Psychomotor skills related to the use of medical ultrasound are a fundamental, but often overlooked component of this ubiquitous medical imaging technology. Although discussions of image production/orientation...

    Authors: Lauren M. Maloney, Peggy A. Seidman, Kristen M. Zach, Neera K. Tewari, Matthew F. Tito and Christopher R. Page
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:26
  5. Sex and gender influence health and disease outcomes, therefore, doctors should be able to deliver gender-sensitive care. To train gender-sensitive doctors, relevant sex and gender differences have to be inclu...

    Authors: Joni K. Scholte, Francisca W. M. van der Meulen, Theodora A. M. Teunissen, Mieke Albers, Roland F. J. M. Laan, Cornelia R. M. G. Fluit and Antoine L. M. Lagro-Janssen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:25
  6. The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure of the Chinese version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for medical students (JSE-S) and investigate differences in empathy scores among Chinese med...

    Authors: Kangqi Yi, Mingyi Kang, Dongju Li, Zhipeng Wang, Jinsong Bai, Huiming Xu and Shulan Ma
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:24
  7. Physicians are currently unprepared to treat patients with obesity, which is of great concern given the obesity epidemic in the United States. This study sought to evaluate the current status of obesity educat...

    Authors: W. Scott Butsch, Robert F. Kushner, Susan Alford and B. Gabriel Smolarz
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:23
  8. The objective of the present study was to describe the knowledge regarding the antibiotic therapy of students of three medical schools in Medellín, Colombia.

    Authors: Luis Felipe Higuita-Gutiérrez, Valentina Molina -Garcia, Jenifer Acevedo Guiral, Liceth Gómez Cadena, Gustavo Eduardo Roncancio Villamil and Judy Natalia Jiménez Quiceno
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:22
  9. Following publication of the original article [1], we’ve been notified by an author that they have published their manuscript without seeking permission for the survey that was included in one of their tables ...

    Authors: Munashe Chigerwe, Karen A. Boudreaux and Jan E. Ilkiw
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:21

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Education 2014 14:255

  10. Although neuroanatomy is considered an essential requirement in medical curriculum, its teaching has undergone many changes in recent years, with most medical schools starting to implement an integrated approa...

    Authors: Mavilde Arantes, José Paulo Andrade, Joselina Barbosa and Maria Amélia Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:20
  11. A gap between the attitude towards evidence-based medicine (EBM), knowledge and awareness has been reported among physicians from different parts of the world. However, no investigation on Romanian physicians ...

    Authors: Roxana-Denisa Capraş, Adriana Elena Bulboacă and Sorana D. Bolboacă
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:19
  12. Up to 60% of preventable mortality is attributable to social determinants of health (SDOH), yet training on SDOH competencies is not widely implemented in residency. The objective of this study was to assess i...

    Authors: Lauren A. Gard, Andrew J. Cooper, Quentin Youmans, Aashish Didwania, Stephen D. Persell, Muriel Jean-Jacques, Paul Ravenna, Mita Sanghavi Goel and Matthew J. O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:18
  13. Peer-assisted learning is well established in medical education; however, peer tutors rarely act as assessors for the OSCE. In the compulsory, near-peer teaching programme covering basic medical skills at the ...

    Authors: Simon Schwill, Johanna Fahrbach-Veeser, Andreas Moeltner, Christiane Eicher, Sonia Kurczyk, David Pfisterer, Joachim Szecsenyi and Svetla Loukanova
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:17
  14. Patient-centredness is considered a core competency for health professionals. To support faculty in designing courses focused on patient-centredness, an understanding of how educational interventions lead to p...

    Authors: Christel Grau Canét-Wittkampf, Charlotte Eijkelboom, Saskia Mol, Dorien Zwart, Iris Hendriks and Esther de Groot
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:16
  15. We investigated the associations between admissions criteria and performance in four cohorts of pre-dental MS in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) program at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine....

    Authors: Theresa A. Davies, Madeline B. Miller, Vincent A. Moore and Elizabeth A. Kaye
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:14
  16. Both medical education and radiation oncology have progressed significantly in the past decade, but a generalized overview of educational research for radiation oncology residents has not been produced. This s...

    Authors: Ching-Hsin Lee, Po-Jui Chen, Hung-Yi Lai, Ching-Yi Lee, Kang-Hsing Fan, Ngan-Ming Tsang and Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:13
  17. New doctors are expected to assess and manage acutely deteriorating patients from their first days in the hospital. However, current evidence suggests that medical graduates are not prepared for this. We aimed...

    Authors: Samuel Burridge, Thurkaa Shanmugalingam, Fatima Nawrozzadeh, Kathleen Leedham-Green and Amar Sharif
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:12
  18. Attitudes towards learning clinical communication skills at the end of medical school are likely to reflect the students’ training and motivation for the continued development of their skills as doctors. Stude...

    Authors: Tore Gude, Reidar Tyssen, Tor Anvik, Hilde Grimstad, Are Holen, Anders Baerheim, Per Vaglum and Lise Løvseth
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:11
  19. Provision of relevant pre-learning materials has been shown to increase student engagement and improve outcomes in medical education. This non-randomised study attempts to quantify the educational gains, and r...

    Authors: H. D. Jeffry Hogg, Michael Pereira, Julian Purdy, Richard J. R. Frearson and Gordon B. Lau
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:10
  20. To develop effective and sustainable simulation training programs in low-resource settings, it is critical that facilitators are thoroughly trained in debriefing, a critical component of simulation learning. H...

    Authors: Julia H. Raney, Melissa M. Medvedev, Susanna R. Cohen, Hilary Spindler, Rakesh Ghosh, Amelia Christmas, Aritra Das, Aboli Gore, Tanmay Mahapatra and Dilys Walker
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:9
  21. Self-directed learning (SDL) is an appropriate and preferred learning process to prepare students for lifelong learning in their professions and make them stay up-to-date. The purpose of this study was to expl...

    Authors: Haftom Hadush Kidane, Herma Roebertsen and Cees P. M. van der Vleuten
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:7
  22. Assessing competence of advanced undergraduate medical students based on performance in the clinical context is the ultimate, yet challenging goal for medical educators to provide constructive alignment betwee...

    Authors: Sarah Prediger, Kristina Schick, Fabian Fincke, Sophie Fürstenberg, Viktor Oubaid, Martina Kadmon, Pascal O. Berberat and Sigrid Harendza
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:6
  23. Quality, evidence-based obesity management training for family medicine residents is needed to better support patients. To address this gap, we developed a comprehensive course based on the 5As of Obesity Mana...

    Authors: Thea Luig, Sonja Wicklum, Melanie Heatherington, Albert Vu, Erin Cameron, Doug Klein, Arya M. Sharma and Denise L. Campbell-Scherer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:5
  24. Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neuro...

    Authors: Xuefei Shao, Quan Yuan, Daqing Qian, Zheng Ye, Gao Chen, Kang le Zhuang, Xiaochun Jiang, Yuelong Jin and Di Qiang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:3
  25. Attainment gaps for students with disabilities have been noted in pre-registration physiotherapy courses in the UK. Previous research suggests disclosure, lack of staff knowledge and poor communication between...

    Authors: M. Norris, J. Hammond, A. Williams and S. Walker
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 20:2
  26. This paper seeks to contribute to a reputable evidence base for required competencies across different topics in statistics and probability (statistical topics) in preparing medical graduates for clinical prac...

    Authors: Margaret MacDougall, Helen S. Cameron and Simon R. J. Maxwell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 20:1
  27. The ICAP framework based on cognitive science posits four modes of cognitive engagement: Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive. Focusing on the wide applicability of discussion as interactive engageme...

    Authors: Jaeseo Lim, Hyunwoong Ko, Ji Won Yang, Songeui Kim, Seunghee Lee, Myung-Sun Chun, Jungjoon Ihm and Jooyong Park
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:477
  28. Levels of physical activity and happiness may impact the health and performance of future doctors. The specific relationship between physical activity and happiness among first year medical students is unclear...

    Authors: Joshua J. Fisher, Daphne Kaitelidou and George Samoutis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:475
  29. Musculoskeletal point of care ultrasound (MSK POCUS) has many uses for orthopaedic surgeons, but orthopaedic trainees are rarely exposed to this modality. The purpose of this project was to assess the usefulne...

    Authors: Samuel Larrivée, Robyn Rodger, Patricia Larouche, Jeff Leiter, Tomislav Jelic and Peter MacDonald
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:474
  30. Resilience refers to the ability to be flexible and adaptive in response to challenges. Medical students in clerkship who are transitioning from medical studies to clinical practice face a variety of workplace...

    Authors: Yung Kai Lin, Chia-Der Lin, Blossom Yen-Ju Lin and Der-Yuan Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:473
  31. Several studies have warned about the diminishing physician-scientist breed. Limited studies, however, have attempted to assess what factors (if any) enhanced or hindered the experience of trainee physician-sc...

    Authors: Yassar Alamri, Kate Magner and Tim J. Wilkinson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:471
  32. Following publication of the original article [1], the author notified us about incorrectly formatted of Table 2 and Table 3.

    Authors: Julia Hoffmann, Julia Günther, Kristina Geyer, Lynne Stecher, Kathrin Rauh, Julia Kunath, Dorothy Meyer, Christina Sitzberger, Monika Spies, Eva Rosenfeld, Luzia Kick, Renate Oberhoffer and Hans Hauner
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:470

    The original article was published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2019 19:414

  33. The national ranking examination (NRE) marks the end of the second cycle (6th university year) of French medical studies and ranks students allowing them to choose their specialty and city of residency. We stu...

    Authors: Martin Lhuaire, Moustapha Dramé, Mikael Hivelin, Thomas Levasseur, Quentin Maestraggi, Vincent Hunsinger, Peter Abrahams, Laurent Lantieri and Daniele Sommacale
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:469
  34. Soon after Bhutan’s first medical university was established in 2012, Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) were adopted for efficient delivery of postgraduate medical curriculum. Medical education was an addi...

    Authors: Karma Tenzin, Thinley Dorji, Tshering Choeda and Krit Pongpirul
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:468
  35. Although numeracy, defined as understanding and handling numbers, is an important skill for the medical profession, it is not clear whether it changes during graduate medical education and whether it can be im...

    Authors: Ivan Buljan, Ružica Tokalić, Matko Marušić and Ana Marušić
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:467
  36. Video review processes for evaluation and coaching are often incorporated into medical education as a means to accurately capture physician-patient interactions. Compared to direct observation they offer the a...

    Authors: Kendall Ho, Christopher Yao, Helen Novak Lauscher, Barry E. Koehler, Kamran Shojania, Shahin Jamal, David Collins, Raheem Kherani, Graydon Meneilly and Kevin Eva
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:466
  37. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires each residency program to have a Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) but does not specify how the PEC should be designed. We sought to develop a...

    Authors: Amy R. Schwartz, Mark D. Siegel and Alfred Ian Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:465
  38. To assess the self-perceived competencies in diagnosing and treating patients with mental health disorders, among recently graduated general practitioners (GPs) from Lima, Peru.

    Authors: Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Fiorella Inga-Berrospi and Alvaro Taype-Rondan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:464
  39. The Australian Physiotherapy Council mandates that physiotherapy clinical education be sufficient to produce graduates who are competent to practice across the lifespan. Due to a lack of opportunities for paed...

    Authors: Judith Hough, Daniel Levan, Michael Steele, Kristine Kelly and Megan Dalton
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:463
  40. Educational leaders have been pointed out as being important for quality of medical education. However, their actual influence on the education can be limited. At the postgraduate level, educational leadership...

    Authors: Hanna Wijk, Sari Ponzer, Hans Järnbert-Pettersson, Lars Kihlström and Jonas Nordquist
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:462
  41. Frequent and repeated visits from patients with mental illness or free medical care recipients may elicit physicians’ negative emotions and influence their clinical decision making. This study investigated the...

    Authors: Yosuke Yamauchi, Takashi Shiga, Kiyoshi Shikino, Takahiro Uechi, Yasuaki Koyama, Nobuhiko Shimozawa, Eiji Hiraoka, Hiraku Funakoshi, Michiko Mizobe, Takahiro Imaizumi and Masatomi Ikusaka
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:461
  42. Medical education must adapt to different health care contexts, including digitalized health care systems and a digital generation of students in a hyper-connected world. The aims of this study are to identify...

    Authors: Eui-Ryoung Han, Sanghee Yeo, Min-Jeong Kim, Young-Hee Lee, Kwi-Hwa Park and Hyerin Roh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:460
  43. Physicians-in-training (residents) are typically the primary educators for medical students during clinical clerkships. However, residents are not formally trained to teach or to assess their teaching. The aim...

    Authors: Yacob Habboush, Alexis Stoner, Claribel Torres and Sary Beidas
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2019 19:459

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