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  1. Psychiatry and Family Medicine residents frequently see patients with comorbid mental and physical disorders. Little is known about the difference in knowledge of Psychiatry residents and Family Medicine resid...

    Authors: Jiangbo Ying, Jinhui Wan, Kang Sim, Ee-Jin Darren Seah and Mythily Subramaniam

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:232

    Content type: Research

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  2. Burnout syndrome is a frequent syndrome related to people that feel a deterioration in their daily activities due to highly demandant psychological requirements in their workplaces. Within last decades, this s...

    Authors: Javier Gil-Calderón, Jéssica Alonso-Molero, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, Inés Gómez-Acebo and Javier Llorca

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:231

    Content type: Research

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  3. Relationships with patients are seen as the core component of establishing the quality of patient-centred care and promoting patients’ autonomy and relevant use of services. A clinical learning environment tha...

    Authors: Arja Suikkala, Leena Timonen, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Jouko Katajisto and Camilla Strandell-Laine

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:230

    Content type: Research

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  4. Medical students show varying clinical practical skills when entering their final year clinical clerkship, which is the final period to acquire and improve practical skills prior to their residency. We develop...

    Authors: Felix Behling, Isabella Nasi-Kordhishti, Patrick Haas, Joey Sandritter, Marcos Tatagiba and Stephan Herlan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:229

    Content type: Research

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  5. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) as a formative assessment tool among undergraduate medical students, in terms of student perceptions, effects on direct...

    Authors: Susanne Skjervold Smeby Martinsen, Torvald Espeland, Erik Andreas Rye Berg, Eivind Samstad, Børge Lillebo and Tobias S. Slørdahl

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:228

    Content type: Research

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  6. Diagnostic errors have been attributed to cognitive biases (reasoning shortcuts), which are thought to result from fast reasoning. Suggested solutions include slowing down the reasoning process. However, slowe...

    Authors: J. Staal, J. Alsma, S. Mamede, A. P. J. Olson, G. Prins-van Gilst, S. E. Geerlings, M. Plesac, M. A. Sundberg, M. A. Frens, H. G. Schmidt, W. W. Van den Broek and L. Zwaan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:227

    Content type: Research

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  7. In Japan, between 2010 and 2020, there were two post-graduate training curricula for post-graduate medical education, as follows: comprehensive rotation programmes (CRPs), which require rotation in at least se...

    Authors: Saki Muroya, Sachiko Ohde, Osamu Takahashi, Joshua Jacobs and Tsuguya Fukui

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:226

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Enhancing medical students’ practice of patient-centered care is a goal of medical schools. In addition to exploring the demographic and academic factors of the students, it is necessary to identify other atti...

    Authors: Minjung Lee and Jungjoon Ihm

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:225

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Teaching methods that stimulate the active learning of students make a positive impact on several aspects of learning in higher education. Collaborative testing blended with teaching is one such method. At our...

    Authors: Jiska A. Patiwael, Anje H. Douma, Natalia Bezakova, Rashmi A. Kusurkar and Hester E. M. Daelmans

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:224

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) in competency-based, undergraduate medical education (UME) have led to new formative workplace-based assessments (WBA) using entrustment-supervision scales in clerksh...

    Authors: Severin Pinilla, Alexandra Kyrou, Stefan Klöppel, Werner Strik, Christoph Nissen and Sören Huwendiek

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:223

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Problem-based learning (PBL) is classified as a collaborative learning approach, wherein students learn while contributing meaning to experiences and interactions with others. An important theoretical fundamen...

    Authors: Ikuo Shimizu, Yasushi Matsuyama, Robbert Duvivier and Cees van der Vleuten

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:222

    Content type: Research

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  12. The Covid pandemic and associated lockdown forced medical schools globally not only to deliver emergency remote teaching, but to consider alternative methods of high stakes assessment. Here we outline our appr...

    Authors: Jenny Blythe, Nimesh S. A. Patel, Will Spiring, Graham Easton, Dason Evans, Egle Meskevicius-Sadler, Hassan Noshib and Heather Gordon

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:221

    Content type: Technical advance

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  13. Interprofessional practice (IPP) has been shown to contribute to quality service provision and improved health outcomes. This knowledge has led to the integration of interprofessional education into course cur...

    Authors: Leigh Moore and Narelle Campbell

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:220

    Content type: Research

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  14. This study assessed the impact of distance cataract surgical wet laboratory training on surgical competency of ophthalmology residents at a tertiary-level ophthalmic training center in Trujillo, Peru.

    Authors: Amelia Geary, Qing Wen, Rosa Adrianzén, Nathan Congdon, R. Janani, Danny Haddad, Clare Szalay Timbo and Yousuf M. Khalifa

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:219

    Content type: Research

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  15. There is an increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S. The difficult task of addressing patients’ sociocultural needs is one reason residents do not pursue primary care. However, associations b...

    Authors: Sara Abrahams, Eun Ji Kim, Lyndonna Marrast, Omolara Uwemedimo, Joseph Conigliaro and Johanna Martinez

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:218

    Content type: Research

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  16. Student Interest Group in Neurology (SIGN) chapters across the medical schools in the United States provide opportunities for medical students to participate in clinical, research, and service activities in ne...

    Authors: Rohit Gummi, Ross Smith and Raghav Govindarajan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:217

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a transformation of clinical care practices to protect both patients and providers. These changes led to a decrease in patient volume, impacting physician trainee education du...

    Authors: Sunny S. Lou, Charles W. Goss, Bradley A. Evanoff, Jennifer G. Duncan and Thomas Kannampallil

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2021 21:216

    Content type: Research

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  18. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  19. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  20. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  22. 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

    Content type: Study protocol

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  23. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  24. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  25. 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

    Content type: Research

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  26. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  27. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  28. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  29. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  30. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  31. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  32. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  33. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  34. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  35. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  36. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  37. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  38. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  39. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  40. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  41. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  43. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  44. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  45. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  47. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  48. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  49. 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

    Content type: Research article

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  50. 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

    Content type: Research article

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