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  1. The effectiveness of peer learning has been recognized and discussed by many scholars, and implemented in the formal curriculums of medical schools internationally. However, there is a general dearth of studie...

    Authors: Osamu Nomura, Tatsuki Abe, Yuki Soma, Hirofumi Tomita and Hiroshi Kijima
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:419
  2. The medical profession is one of the most highly respected and desired professions among students worldwide, most likely because it provides opportunities for both a financially and socially rewarding career. ...

    Authors: Moez Mohammed Ibrahim Bashir, Mohmed Ahmed Fadelalla Alrayah, Mohamed Esameldeen Elsayed Mustafa, Mohammed Khalid Abdulla Maroof, Mohamed Awad Omer Hamad and Moaid Mohamedosman Ali Mohamedosman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:418
  3. In midwifery education, the clinical learning experience (CLE) is a critical component to gaining competency and should comprise greater than 50% of a student’s education. Many studies have identified positive...

    Authors: Julie Mann, Meredith B. Brooks, Frederica Kella, Laura Euller, Sara Adelman, Mustapha Sonnie and Brittney van de Water
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:416
  4. Medical educational courses can be successful from an immediate feedback perspective but not lead to new behaviour or organisational changes in the workplace. The aim of this study was to assess the self-perce...

    Authors: Elizabete Neutel, Sebastian Kuhn, Peter Driscoll, Carl Gwinnutt, Zélia Moreira, Ana Veloso, Maria Conceição Manso and António Carneiro
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:415
  5. Self-confidence, is one of the critical variables influencing surgical resident’s abilities, and lack of confidence maybe a reason for not entering medical practice immediately. Measuring the level of confiden...

    Authors: Alaa M. Awlia, Shomokh F. Alotaibi, Asya A. Hawsa, Abdullah O. Sultan, Nora H. Trabulsi, Nouf Y. Akeel, Nadim H. Malibary, Abdulaziz M. Saleem, Ali A. Samkari, Ahmed A. Alburakan, Mai S. Kadi, Maram T. Alkhatieb, Alaa A. Shabkah and Ali H. Farsi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:414
  6. Game-based learning (GBL) is effective for increasing participation, creativity, and student motivation. However, the discriminative value of GBL for knowledge acquisition has not yet been proven. The aim of t...

    Authors: MC Garza, S Olivan, E Monleón, Ana Isabel Cisneros, A García-Barrios, I Ochoa, J Whyte and I Lamiquiz-Moneo
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:413
  7. The number of academic clinicians in the UK is declining and there are demographic inequalities in the clinical-academic workforce. Increased research productivity by medical students is believed to reduce fut...

    Authors: Temidayo Osunronbi, William Adeboye, David Faluyi, Jasmine Sofela, Efua Abankwa, Semhar Abraha, Fatima Adamu-Biu, Zain Ahmad, Izieduwa Akhionbare, Chimba Chimba, Anna Chiara Corriero, Isata J. Fofanah, Ikenna Ibeanusi, Ummulkhulsum Ibrahim, Deborah Inyang, Robert Jones…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:412
  8. Medical students have higher risk of psychological disorders due to the relatively stressful environment. Educators are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of stresses on the students general well-being....

    Authors: Abdullah Alshehri, Badr Alshehri, Omar Alghadir, Abdullah Basamh, Meshari Alzeer, Mohammed Alshehri and Sameh Nasr
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:411
  9. The introduction of new targeted therapies for RET-altered lung and thyroid cancers (LC/TC) has impacted pathologists’ practice by making genomic testing more relevant. Variations in health systems and treatme...

    Authors: Patrice Lazure, Anthony Sireci, Vivek Subbiah, Suzanne Murray, Christian Grohé, Steven I. Sherman, Elizabeth Kelly, Patrick Bubach and Sophie Péloquin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:410
  10. Formative feedback plays a critical role in guiding learners to gain competence, serving as an opportunity for reflection and feedback on their learning progress and needs. Medical education in Japan has histo...

    Authors: An Kozato, Kiyoshi Shikino, Yasushi Matsuyama, Mikio Hayashi, Satoshi Kondo, Shun Uchida, Maham Stanyon and Shoichi Ito
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:408
  11. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, countless face-to-face events as well as medical trainings were cancelled or moved to online courses, which resulted in increased digitalization in many areas. In th...

    Authors: Armin N. Flinspach, Jasmina Sterz, Vanessa Neef, Mairen H. Flinspach, Kai Zacharowski, Miriam Ruesseler, Lena Janker and Florian J. Raimann
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:406
  12. Ambiguity is inherent to the medical field; hence, assessing and educating medical trainees regarding ambiguity tolerance is essential. The Tolerance of Ambiguity in Medical Students and Doctors (TAMSAD) scale...

    Authors: Hirohisa Fujikawa, Daisuke Son, Mikio Hayashi, Kayo Kondo and Masato Eto
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:405
  13. The diversity of tasks entrusted to medical teachers with their simultaneous responsibility for the safety of patients and the effective education of future healthcare professionals requires maintaining a skil...

    Authors: Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, Piotr Przymuszała and Łucja Zielińska-Tomczak
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:402
  14. Physicians’ values about what constitute their professional identities are integral in understanding how they ascribe meaning to their practice. However, there is no general consensus on the conceptualization ...

    Authors: Yu-Che Chang, Nothando Sithulile Nkambule, Xaviera Xiao, Lynn Valerie Monrouxe and Hsu-Min Tseng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:400
  15. Racism in medicine represents a global problem. It takes place on the individual, institutional and structural level. Especially structural racism can have serious effects on the health of individual people. F...

    Authors: Merle Weßel and Simon Matteo Gerhards
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:399
  16. Since the coronavirus outbreak, many countries have replaced traditional education with virtual education in order to prevent the disease spread, and also avoid stopping education. The aim of the present study...

    Authors: Mohammad Heydari, Yalda Mousazadeh, Roghayeh Salmani and Esmaeil Mehraeen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:398
  17. Open book examinations have been used to assess students’ higher order cognitive skills. These examinations can be conducted online remotely with the advancement of technology. However, there are concerns rega...

    Authors: Hui Meng Er, Pei Se Wong and Vishna Devi Nadarajah
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:397
  18. Role modelling is a widely acknowledged element of medical education and it is associated with a range of beneficial outcomes for medical students, such as contributing to professional identity development and...

    Authors: Isabella Spaans, Renske de Kleijn, Conny Seeleman and Gönül Dilaver
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:396
  19. There are multiple instruments to measure different learning environments but no valid and reliable instrument is present for measuring the micro-learning environment. This study aimed to develop and validate ...

    Authors: Zainab Akbar, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Humaira Fayyaz Khan and Rahila Yasmeen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:395
  20. There are many parameters that could be used to evaluate the quality of scientific meetings such as publication rates of meeting abstracts as full-text articles after the meeting or scoring with validated qual...

    Authors: Elif Sarı, Gkionoul Nteli Chatzioglou, Çiğdem Yılmaz Aydın, Ferhat Sarı, Taşkın Tokat and İlke Ali Gürses
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:394
  21. When training efficient human resources for the health system, it is necessary to train appropriate student teaching and assessment methods and necessary skills for educational planning and evaluation. Theref...

    Authors: Somayeh Akbari Farmad, Ali Esfidani and Sara Shahbazi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:393
  22. All Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) R1 interviews were conducted virtually for the first time in 2021. We explored the facilitators, barriers, and implications of the virtual interview process for ...

    Authors: Rosephine Del Fernandes, Nicole Relke, Eleftherios Soleas, Heather Braund, Clementine Janet Pui Man Lui and Boris Zevin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:392
  23. The error-proneness in the preanalytical and postanalytical stages is higher than that in the analytical stage of the total testing process. However, preanalytical and postanalytical quality management has not...

    Authors: Guoying Xu, Chuanxiang Zhao, Mengdan Yan, Xiaoxian Zhang, Ling Zhu, Jiaxiu Liu, Yaping Zhao, Yuling Zhang, Weili Cai, Hongxiang Xie, Yuzhang Jiang and Qixiang Shao
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:391
  24. Snakebite is a global health problem that predominantly occurs in rural areas. In Sri Lanka, the majority of snakebite patients first present to smaller rural primary hospitals. Improving care delivered at rur...

    Authors: Seyed Shahmy, Senanayake A. M. Kularatne, Indika B. Gawarammana, Shantha S. Rathnayake and Andrew H. Dawson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:390
  25. Due to the 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) precaution, educational systems and learners’ practices from all specialties have been negatively affected, especially university students. COVID-19 has a massive...

    Authors: Aseel Jamal Baoum, Elaf Asaad Hadidi, Renad Fahad Alharbi, Muhammad Anwar Khan and Alqassem Y. Hakami
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:389
  26. The establishment of new anatomy facilities needs to accommodate a combination of modern teaching modalities that best align with evidence-based best teaching practices. This article describes the process in w...

    Authors: Dietrich E Lorke, John A. Rock, Robert Hernandez Jr., David Graham, Natalie Keough and Daniël J. van Tonder
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:388
  27. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in not only significant mortalities in Vietnam but has had an impact on its economy. Previous studies have highlighted how the pandemic has had a marginal impact on Vietnames...

    Authors: Linh Phuong Doan, Vu Anh Trong Dam, Laurent Boyer, Pascal Auquier, Guillaume Fond, Bach Tran, Thuc Minh Thi Vu, Hoa Thi Do, Carl A. Latkin, Melvyn W.B. Zhang, Roger C.M. Ho and Cyrus S.H. Ho
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:387
  28. The aim of this study was to determine whether the pandemic has reinforced the choice of pursuing health-related bachelor’s degrees, and to identify underlying factors that could contribute to that impact. Thi...

    Authors: Jaume-Miquel March-Amengual, Irene Cambra-Badii, Consolación Pineda Galán, Ester Busquets-Alibés, Montse Masó Aguado, Anna Ramon-Aribau, Lydia Feito Grande, Agustí Comella Cayuela, Nuria Terribas i Sala, Elena Andrade-Gómez, Naiara Martínez-Perez and Javier Jerez-Roig
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:386
  29. Vaccine administration skills are very important for physicians, especially in the era of global pandemics. However, medical students have reported that practical sessions to develop these skills are insuffici...

    Authors: Hirohisa Fujikawa, Daisuke Son, Hiroko Mori, Satoshi Kondo, Shoko Horita, Masashi Izumiya and Masato Eto
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:385
  30. Professional and personal boundaries are blurred with the wide application of social media (SM) in the health professions line of work. Little is known about practice of extending friend requests to patients a...

    Authors: Shani Ann Mani, Eswara Uma, Jacob John and Pentti Nieminen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:384
  31. A clinical diagnostic support system (CDSS) can support medical students and physicians in providing evidence-based care. In this study, we investigate diagnostic accuracy based on the history of present illne...

    Authors: Yasutaka Yanagita, Kiyoshi Shikino, Kosuke Ishizuka, Shun Uchida, Yu Li, Daiki Yokokawa, Tomoko Tsukamoto, Kazutaka Noda, Takanori Uehara and Masatomi Ikusaka
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:383
  32. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development emphasizes the importance of complex problem-solving (CPS) skills in the 21st century. CPS skills have been linked to academic performance, career deve...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Ze-Ling Xu, Jia-Yao Lou and Ke-Da Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:382
  33. The doctor-patient relationship has changed a lot in the 21st century and the varying expectations of the patients play an important role in future professional medical care. The knowledge of patients’ needs i...

    Authors: Zsuzsanna Varga, Zsuzsanna Pótó, Árpád Csathó and Zsuzsanna Füzesi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:381
  34. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development asserts that people progress through different stages of moral reasoning as their cognitive abilities and social interactions mature. Individuals at the lowest stage of m...

    Authors: M. G. Jean-Tron, D. Ávila-Montiel, Titto C. Hill-de, H. Márquez-González, G. Chapa-Koloffon, A. V. Ávila-Hernández, M. A. Núñez-Benítez, O. Muñoz-Hernández and J. Garduño-Espinosa
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:380
  35. Defining standards is the first step toward quality assurance and improvement of educational programs. This study aimed at developing and validating a set of national standards for the Undergraduate Medical Ed...

    Authors: Roghayeh Gandomkar, Tahereh Changiz, Athar Omid, Mahasti Alizadeh, Majid Khazaei, Abtin Heidarzadah, Pouria Rouzrokh, Mitra Amini, Hamid Honarpisheh, Reza Laripour, Farshid Abedi, Babak Sabet and Azim Mirzazadeh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:379
  36. An increasing number of Canadians are choosing to study medicine abroad (CSA); however, many CSA are not fully informed of the challenges that exist in returning to Canada to practice and relatively little inf...

    Authors: Maria Mathews, Dana Ryan and Ivy Bourgeault
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:376
  37. Mentorship is an essential component of research capacity building for young researchers in the health sciences. The mentorship environment in resource-limited settings is gradually improving. This article des...

    Authors: Alex Mremi, Godwin Pancras, Dorah Mrema, Baraka Morris, Tosi Mwakyandile, Delfina R Msanga, James S Mundamshimu, Bartholomeo Nicholaus, Honest H Massawe, Mwita Matiko, Maryam Amour and Evangelista Malindisa
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:375
  38. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are defined units of professional practice entrusted to professionals once they have attained the specific competencies required to complete the end-to-end task. They...

    Authors: Sonya J. Moore, Thorlene Egerton, Mark Merolli, Jessica Lees, Nino La Scala and Selina M. Parry
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:372
  39. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way medical education is delivered. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education and procedural volume of critical care and...

    Authors: Orlando Garner, Kanta Velamuri, Kristen Staggers and Andrea Barbara Braun
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2023 23:371

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