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  1. Measurement of the educational environment has become more common in health professional education programs. Information gained from these investigations can be used to implement and measure changes to the cur...

    Authors: Brett Vaughan, Annie Carter, Chris Macfarlane and Tracy Morrison
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:99
  2. Neurology is complex, abstract, and difficult for students to learn. However, a good learning method for neurology clerkship training is required to help students quickly develop strong clinical thinking as we...

    Authors: Lian-Hong Yang, Long-Yuan Jiang, Bing Xu, Shu-Qiong Liu, Yan-Ran Liang, Jin-Hao Ye and En-Xiang Tao
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:98
  3. The reliability in Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) is based on variance introduced due to examiners, stations, items, standardized patients (SP), and the interaction of one or more of these items w...

    Authors: Lubna A Baig, Tanya N Beran, Andrea Vallevand, Zarrukh A Baig and Mauricio Monroy-Cuadros
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:97
  4. Medical students report high stress levels and in particular, the clinical phase is a demanding one. The field of medicine is still described as having a patriarchal culture which favors aspects like a physici...

    Authors: Petra Verdonk, Viktoria Räntzsch, Remko de Vries and Inge Houkes
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:96
  5. The use of the biopsychosocial model of health and case management for effective vocational rehabilitation (VR) has been confirmed for many health conditions. While Case and Condition Managers (CCMPs) use this...

    Authors: Evangelia Demou, Mairi Gaffney, Furzana Khan, John K Lando and Ewan B Macdonald
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:95
  6. Ensuring that doctors in training acquire sufficient knowledge, experience and understanding of medical research is a universal and longstanding issue which has been brought into sharper focus by the growth of...

    Authors: George Dowswell, David C Bartlett, Kaori Futaba, Lisa Whisker and Thomas D Pinkney
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:94
  7. Communication is important for the quality of clinical practice, and programs have been implemented to improve healthcare providers’ communication skills. However, the consistency of programs teaching communic...

    Authors: Irene P Carvalho, Vanessa G Pais, Filipa R Silva, Raquel Martins, Margarida Figueiredo-Braga, Raquel Pedrosa, Susana S Almeida, Luís Correia, Raquel Ribeiro-Silva, Ivone Castro-Vale, Ana Teles and Rui Mota-Cardoso
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:92
  8. The move to frame medical education in terms of competencies – the extent to which trainees “can do” a professional responsibility - is congruent with calls for accountability in medical education. However, th...

    Authors: Patricia B Mullan, Joy Williams, Preeti N Malani, Michelle Riba, Andrew Haig, Julie Perry, Joseph C Kolars, Rajesh Mangrulkar and Brent Williams
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:91
  9. Many commencing junior doctors worldwide feel ill-prepared to deal with their new responsibilities, particularly prescribing. Simulation has been widely utilised in medical education, but the use of extended m...

    Authors: Gary D Rogers, Harry W McConnell, Nicole Jones de Rooy, Fiona Ellem and Marise Lombard
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:90
  10. Cheating on examinations in academic institutions is a worldwide issue. When cheating occurs in medical schools, it has serious consequences for human life, social values, and the economy. This study was condu...

    Authors: Anteneh Assefa Desalegn and Asres Berhan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:89
  11. The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) was designed to address issues identified with traditional methods of selection. This study aims to examine the predictive validity of the UKCAT and compare this to tradit...

    Authors: Adrian Husbands, Alistair Mathieson, Jonathan Dowell, Jennifer Cleland and Rhoda MacKenzie
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:88
  12. Although medical education has developed rapidly in the last decade, and the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) is used as the "gold standard" for admission to medical college in mainland China, ther...

    Authors: Ying-Xue Zhou, Zhi-Tao Zhao, Li Li, Cheng-Song Wan, Cheng-Hua Peng, Jun Yang and Chun-Quan Ou
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:87
  13. This paper is an evaluation of an integrated selection process utilising previous academic achievement [Universities Admission Index (UAI)], a skills test [Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission ...

    Authors: Paul L Simpson, Helen A Scicluna, Philip D Jones, Andrew MD Cole, Anthony J O’Sullivan, Peter G Harris, Gary Velan and H Patrick McNeil
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:86
  14. German hospitals have a well-defined career structure for clinicians. In this hierarchical career system university hospital are stepping stones for career advancement. This longitudinal study investigates the...

    Authors: Christiane Degen and Ludwig Kuntz
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:85
  15. In 2011, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education implemented updated guidelines for medical resident duty hours, further limiting continuous work hours for first-year residents. We sought to in...

    Authors: Christa R Nevin, Andrea Cherrington, Brita Roy, David D Daly, J Martin Rodriguez, Mukesh Patel, Erin D Snyder, Angelo L Gaffo, Joseph Barney and James H Willig
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:84
  16. Professional development of public health leaders requires a form of instruction which is competency-based to help them develop the abilities to address complex and evolving demands of health care systems. Con...

    Authors: Katarzyna Czabanowska, André Malho, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Daniela Popa and Genc Burazeri
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:83
  17. Nursing staff are often involved in counseling patients with regard to health behavior. Although care promoting healthy lifestyle choices is included in the curriculum of nursing students in Germany, several s...

    Authors: Franziska Lehmann, Katharina von Lindeman, Jörg Klewer and Joachim Kugler
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:82
  18. Student absenteeism is a major concern for university education worldwide. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and causes of absenteeism among undergraduate medical and health sciences student...

    Authors: Anteneh Assefa Desalegn, Asres Berhan and Yifru Berhan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:81
  19. Observation of performance followed by feedback is the key to good teaching of communication skills in clinical practice. The fact that it occurs rarely is probably due to clinical supervisors’ perceived lack ...

    Authors: Noelle Junod Perron, Mathieu Nendaz, Martine Louis-Simonet, Johanna Sommer, Anne Gut, Bernard Cerutti, Cees P van der Vleuten and Diana Dolmans
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:80
  20. Educators continue to search for better strategies for medical education. Although the unifying theme of reforms was “increasing interest in, attention to, and understanding of the knowledge base structures”, ...

    Authors: Yu Qi Qiao, Jun Shen, Xiao Liang, Song Ding, Fang Yuan Chen, Li Shao, Qing Zheng and Zhi Hua Ran
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:79
  21. In order to develop clinical reasoning, medical students must be able to integrate knowledge across traditional subject boundaries and multiple disciplines. At least two dimensions of integration have been ide...

    Authors: Albert S Li, Kenneth I Berger, David R Schwartz, William R Slater and David S Goldfarb
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:78
  22. The importance of professional behaviour has been emphasized in medical school curricula. However, the lack of consensus on what constitutes professionalism poses a challenge to medical educators, who often re...

    Authors: Beatriz Cuesta-Briand, Kirsten Auret, Paula Johnson and Denese Playford
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:77
  23. Multisource feedback (MSF) is currently being introduced in the UK as part of a cycle of performance review for doctors. However, although it is suggested that the provision of feedback can lead to a positive ...

    Authors: Julie Ferguson, Judy Wakeling and Paul Bowie
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:76
  24. The objective of this study was to construct a framework of core competency indicators of medical doctors who teach in the clinical setting in Taiwan and to evaluate the relative importance of the indicators a...

    Authors: Ai-Tzu Li and Jou-Wei Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:75
  25. Chinese medical universities typically have a high number of students, a shortage of teachers and limited equipment, and as such histology courses have been taught using traditional lecture-based formats, with...

    Authors: Yanping Tian, Wengang Xiao, Chengren Li, Yunlai Liu, Maolin Qin, Yi Wu, Lan Xiao and Hongli Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:74
  26. Many practicing physicians lack skills in physical examination. It is not known whether physical examination skills already show deficiencies after an early phase of clinical training. At the end of the intern...

    Authors: Catharina M Haring, Bernadette M Cools, Jos WM van der Meer and Cornelis T Postma
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:73
  27. Inter-professional learning has been promoted as the solution to many clinical management issues. One such issue is the correct use of asthma inhaler devices. Up to 80% of people with asthma use their inhaler ...

    Authors: Sinthia Z Bosnic-Anticevich, Meg Stuart, Judith Mackson, Biljana Cvetkovski, Erica Sainsbury, Carol Armour, Sofia Mavritsakis, Gosia Mendrela, Pippa Travers-Mason and Margaret Williamson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:72
  28. Skills lab training has become a widespread tool in medical education, and nowadays, skills labs are ubiquitous among medical faculties across the world. An increasingly prevalent didactic approach in skills l...

    Authors: Mats Blohm, Markus Krautter, Jan Lauter, Julia Huber, Peter Weyrich, Wolfgang Herzog, Jana Jünger and Christoph Nikendei
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:71
  29. While statistics is increasingly taught as part of the medical curriculum, it can be an unpopular subject and feedback from students indicates that some find it more difficult than other subjects. Understandin...

    Authors: Ailish Hannigan, Avril C Hegarty and Deirdre McGrath
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:70
  30. As a conceptual review, this paper will debate relevant learning theories to inform the development, design and delivery of an effective educational programme for simulated team training relevant to health pro...

    Authors: Martin Stocker, Margarita Burmester and Meredith Allen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:69
  31. Skills-lab training as a methodological teaching approach is nowadays part of the training programs of almost all medical faculties. Specific ingredients have been shown to contribute to a successful learning ...

    Authors: Christoph Nikendei, Julia Huber, Jan Stiepak, Daniel Huhn, Jan Lauter, Wolfgang Herzog, Jana Jünger and Markus Krautter
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:68
  32. Reflective writing enhances personal and professional development. It is essential for the teachers to be familiar with the students’ perceptions to improve the students’ learning. Our aim was to deepen the un...

    Authors: Mia Hemborg Kristiansson, Margareta Troein and Annika Brorsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:66
  33. The literature provides some insight into the role of feedback givers, but little information about within-trainer factors influencing ‘feedback-giving behaviours’. We looked for relationships between characte...

    Authors: Elisabeth AM Pelgrim, Anneke WM Kramer, Henk GA Mokkink and Cees PM van der Vleuten
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:65
  34. The virtual clinical encounter (VCE) may function as an important support for medical students in or prior to clinical practice to train and ease communication and socioemotional interactions with patients. Few s...

    Authors: Olivier Courteille, Anna Josephson and Lars-Olof Larsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:64
  35. In 2010, in the midst of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in Zimbabwe, 69% of faculty positions in the Department of Medicine of the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (UZ-CHS) we...

    Authors: Jacob Gray, Golden T Fana, Thomas B Campbell, James G Hakim, Margaret Z Borok and Eva M Aagaard
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:63
  36. Hospital clerkships are considered crucial for acquiring competencies such as diagnostic reasoning and clinical skills. The actual learning process in the hospital remains poorly understood. This study investi...

    Authors: Robbert Duvivier, Renée Stalmeijer, Jan van Dalen, Cees van der Vleuten and Albert Scherpbier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:61
  37. Professionalism has been an important tenet of medical education, yet defining it is a challenge. Perceptions of professional behavior may vary by individual, medical specialty, demographic group and instituti...

    Authors: Alisa Nagler, Kathryn Andolsek, Mariah Rudd, Richard Sloane, David Musick and Lorraine Basnight
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:60
  38. Recent surveys suggest few emergency medicine (EM) training programs have formal evidence-based medicine (EBM) or journal club curricula. Our primary objective was to describe the methods of EBM training in Ro...

    Authors: Joseph Bednarczyk, Merril Pauls, Jason Fridfinnson and Erin Weldon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:57
  39. Medical students, junior hospital doctors on rotation and general practice (GP) registrars are undertaking their training in clinical general practices in increasing numbers in Australia. Some practices have f...

    Authors: Jennifer S Thomson, Katrina Anderson, Emily Haesler, Amanda Barnard and Nicholas Glasgow
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:55
  40. Multiple mini-interviews (MMIs) are a valuable tool in medical school selection due to their broad acceptance and promising psychometric properties. With respect to the high expenses associated with this proce...

    Authors: Johanna C Hissbach, Susanne Sehner, Sigrid Harendza and Wolfgang Hampe
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:54
  41. In order to manage the increasing worldwide problem of obesity, medical students will need to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to assess and counsel patients with obesity. Few educational interventio...

    Authors: Robert F Kushner, Dinah M Zeiss, Joseph M Feinglass and Marsha Yelen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:53
  42. Interprofessional education (IPE) has been recognized as an innovative approach for the development of a collaborative, practice-ready health workforce, but is not used consistently in undergraduate health pro...

    Authors: Conor Gilligan, Sue Outram and Tracy Levett-Jones
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:52
  43. Medical students engage in curricular and extracurricular activities, including undergraduate research (UR). The advantages, difficulties and motivations for medical students pursuing research activities durin...

    Authors: Cristiano C Oliveira, Renata C de Souza, Érika H Sassaki Abe, Luís E Silva Móz, Lidia R de Carvalho and Maria AC Domingues
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:51

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