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  1. Most medical students lack confidence and are unable to accurately interpret ECGs. Thus, better methods of ECG instruction are being sought. Current literature indicates that the use of e-learning for ECG anal...

    Authors: Charle André Viljoen, Rob Scott Millar, Kathryn Manning and Vanessa Celeste Burch
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:488
  2. Active learning is defined as any instructional method that engages students in the learning process. Cultural differences in learning patterns can play an important role in engagement with active learning. We...

    Authors: Chien-Da Huang, Hsu-Min Tseng, Chang-Chyi Jenq and Liang-Shiou Ou
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:487
  3. Teaching with real patients in the clinical setting lies at the heart of health professional education, providing an essential component to clinical training. This is true of all the health disciplines – parti...

    Authors: Annette Burgess, Christie van Diggele, Chris Roberts and Craig Mellis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20(Suppl 2):463

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  4. Provision of feedback forms an integral part of the learning process. Receipt of feedback enriches the learning experience, and helps to narrow the gap between actual and desired performance. Effective feedbac...

    Authors: Annette Burgess, Christie van Diggele, Chris Roberts and Craig Mellis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20(Suppl 2):460

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  5. Effective leadership is a complex and highly valued component of healthcare education, increasingly recognised as essential to the delivery of high standards of education, research and clinical practice. To me...

    Authors: Christie van Diggele, Annette Burgess, Chris Roberts and Craig Mellis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20(Suppl 2):456

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  6. The objective of this study was to ascertain the importance rankings of factors affecting the implementation of shared decision-making (SDM) in medical students in China and determine whether these factors wer...

    Authors: Richard Huan XU, Lingming ZHOU, Eliza Lai-Yi WONG, Dong WANG, Guo Chun XIANG and Chao XU
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:486
  7. Despite being a vital part of medical workforce planning and development, how medical students and graduates choose their career specialty is still not well understood. This study aimed to identify the factors...

    Authors: Frances M. Cronin, Nicholas Clarke, Louise Hendrick, Ronan Conroy and Ruairi Brugha
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:485
  8. The clinical workplace offers residents many opportunities for learning. Reflection on workplace experiences drives learning and development because experiences potentially make residents reconsider existing k...

    Authors: Serge B. R. Mordang, Eline Vanassche, Frank W. J. M. Smeenk, Laurents P. S. Stassen and Karen D. Könings
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:484
  9. Taiwan’s colleges and universities are struggling to maintain their student enrollment rates owing to the declining fertility rate. Focusing on students in higher education programs, this study aims to analyze...

    Authors: Szu-Chieh Chen, Thomas Chang-Yao Tsao, Ko-Huang Lue and Yafang Tsai
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:483
  10. To improve the quality of education, many academic medical institutions are investing in the application of blended education to support new teaching and learning methods. To take necessary measures to implement ...

    Authors: Mohamad Jebraeily, Habibollah Pirnejad, Aram Feizi and Zahra Niazkhani
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:482
  11. Arts exposure is associated with positive psychological constructs. To date, no randomized, controlled studies have integrated art into clinical medical education or measured its effects on positive psychologi...

    Authors: Garth W. Strohbehn, Stephanie J. K. Hoffman, Molly Tokaz, Nathan Houchens, Ruth Slavin, Suzanne Winter, Martha Quinn, David Ratz, Sanjay Saint, Vineet Chopra and Joel D. Howell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:481
  12. In the current wave of educational reforms, understanding teaching styles of medical faculty can help modify instructional strategies for effective teaching. Few studies have probed distinctive teaching styles...

    Authors: Nihar Ranjan Dash, Salman Yousuf Guraya, Mohammad Tahseen Al Bataineh, Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Mona Faisal Al-Qahtani, Walther N. K. A. van Mook, Muhammad Saeed Shafi, Hamdi Hameed Almaramhy and Wail Nuri Osman Mukhtar
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:480
  13. Alternative assessments engage students in the assessment process to improve both short- and long-term outcomes by developing their judgments and responsibility about their own learning, and that of their peer...

    Authors: Meskuere Capan Melser, Stefan Lettner, Andjela Bäwert, Claudia Puttinger and Anita Holzinger
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:479
  14. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Mai A. Mahmoud, Sa’ad Laws, Antoun Kamel, Dabia Al Mohanadi, Ahmed Al Mohammed and Ziyad R. Mahfoud
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:478

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Education 2020 20:414

  15. Effective collaboration and communication among health care team members are critical for providing safe medical care. Interprofessional education aims to instruct healthcare students how to learn with, from, ...

    Authors: Jihye Yu, woosuck Lee, Miran Kim, Sangcheon Choi, Sungeun Lee, Soonsun Kim, Yunjung Jung, Dongwook Kwak, Hyunjoo Jung, Sukyung Lee, Yu-Jin Lee, Soo-Jin Hyun, Yun KANG, So Myeong Kim and Janghoon Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:476
  16. Understanding the origin and evolution of education of pharmacists is important for practice and health system reforms. In Ghana, education of pharmacists started in the 1880s with the training of dispensers i...

    Authors: Augustina Koduah, Irene Kretchy, Reginald Sekyi-Brown, Michelle Asiedu-Danso, Thelma Ohene-Agyei and Mahama Duwiejua
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:475
  17. English education in professional areas has become more and more important with the increasing internationalization of health profession education in countries around the world. In this study, we aimed to eval...

    Authors: Xi Wang, Yangjingwen Liu, Le Yang, Kai Zhou, Yang Cao, Yun Hong, Shuheng Huang and Zhengmei Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:474
  18. The doctor-patient relationship in China has deteriorated in recent years, and poor doctor-patient communication is one of the main reasons. How to effectively carry out doctor-patient communication training o...

    Authors: Yinan Jiang, Lili Shi, Jinya Cao, Liming Zhu, Yue Sha, Tao Li, Xiaohong Ning, Xia Hong, Xiaoyan Dai and Jing Wei
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:473
  19. The quality of medical education is a key factor. The fact that mostly physicians teach tomorrow’s physicians without acquiring pedagogical skills before becoming a teacher is a cause of concern. In Hungary, w...

    Authors: Zsuzsanna Varga, Zsuzsanna Pótó, László Czopf and Zsuzsanna Füzesi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:472
  20. Simulation-based education (SBE) has many benefits for learners, but costs can limit embedding SBE in health professional curricula. Peer simulation involves students portraying patient roles, and may reduce c...

    Authors: Shane A. Pritchard, Jennifer L. Keating, Debra Nestel and Felicity C. Blackstock
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:471
  21. A community-based medical education (CBME) curriculum may provide opportunities to learn about the social determinants of health (SDH) by encouraging reflection on context, but the categories that students can...

    Authors: Sachiko Ozone, Junji Haruta, Ayumi Takayashiki, Takami Maeno and Tetsuhiro Maeno
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:470
  22. The tooth morphology course is an important basic dental course. However, it is difficult to fully reflect the three-dimensional (3D) morphological characteristics of tooth structure in two-dimensional picture...

    Authors: Helin Wang, Haokun Xu, Junhua Zhang, Shibin Yu, Meiqing Wang, Jun Qiu and Mian Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:469
  23. Interprofessional collaboration is increasingly important in healthcare, but interprofessional education (IPE) faces challenges, such as different study programmes with varied schedules and campuses. These cha...

    Authors: Desiree Wiegleb Edström, Niklas Karlsson and Samuel Edelbring
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:467
  24. The importance of feedback in workplace-based settings cannot be underestimated. Approaches that evaluate feedback reflect either the sender’s or receiver’s viewpoint in isolation of each other. This study inv...

    Authors: Christine Ossenberg, Amanda Henderson and Marion Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:466
  25. Ghana is challenged with shortage of critical human resources for health particularly nurses and midwives in rural hard-to-reach communities. This shortage potentially hinders efforts towards attaining univers...

    Authors: Robert Kaba Alhassan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:465
  26. Singapore needs more family doctors to care for its ageing population and their chronic conditions. While there is a shifting of care from acute care settings to more community care, this has not been reflecte...

    Authors: Humairah Zainal and Helen Elizabeth Smith
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:464

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2021 21:268

  27. Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have been defined to specify the performance expectations for entering residents worldwide. The content of these EPAs was elaborated and validated primarily via ...

    Authors: Ylva Holzhausen, Asja Maaz, Yadira Roa-Romero and Harm Peters
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:452
  28. Training has been found effective in improving healthcare professionals’ knowledge, confidence, and skills in conducting advance care planning (ACP). However, the association between training and its actual pr...

    Authors: Helen Yue-lai Chan, Annie Oi-ling Kwok, Kwok-keung Yuen, Derrick Kit-sing Au and Jacqueline Kwan-yuk Yuen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:451
  29. ‘Exam recall’ is a recognised phenomenon whereby students recall and record questions after leaving the examination hall. This poses two main problems. First, as these questions are only available to peers of ...

    Authors: Anjali R Gondhalekar, Eliot L Rees, Daniel Ntuiabane, Osman Janjua, George Choa, Oziegbe Eboreime and Alison Sturrock
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:450
  30. Electives are perceived by medical students as a valuable, highly regarded experience, allowing them to customize learning experiences and enabling them to early differentiate during medical training. The pres...

    Authors: Ana Rita Ramalho, P. M. Vieira-Marques, C. Magalhães-Alves, M. Severo, M. A. Ferreira and I. Falcão-Pires
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:449
  31. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Munashe Chigerwe, Karen A. Boudreaux and Jan E. Ilkiw
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:448

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

  32. In undergraduate medical education, patient safety concepts and understanding of medical errors are under-represented. This problem is more evident in low-income settings. The aim of this study was to explore ...

    Authors: Mohammed Alser, Bettina Böttcher, Maha Alfaqawi, Abdallah Jlambo, Walaa Abuzubaida and Nasser Abu-El-Noor
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:447
  33. The Program of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM, by its acronym in Spanish) is a program for simultaneous bachelor and doctorate studies (MD/PhD) that enrolls students who show academic excellence and inter...

    Authors: Gina Martínez-Flisser, Ana Flisser, Mario Alberto Castro-Guerrero and Tanya Plett-Torres
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:446
  34. Multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests are commonly used to evaluate medical students, but they do not assess self-confidence nor penalize lucky guess or harmful behaviors. Based on a scoring method according to...

    Authors: Nahid Tabibzadeh, Jimmy Mullaert, Lara Zafrani, Pauline Balagny, Justine Frija-Masson, Stéphanie Marin, Agnès Lefort, Emmanuelle Vidal-Petiot and Martin Flamant
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:445
  35. Recent increases in health professions education (HPE) research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), though substantial, have predominantly originated from single institutions and remained uncoordinated. A shared rese...

    Authors: Susan C. Van Schalkwyk, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Jehan Z. Budak, Michael J. A. Reid and Marietjie R. de Villiers
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:443
  36. Vaccination is the most cost-effective medical intervention known to prevent morbidity and mortality. However, data are limited on the effectiveness of residency programs in delivering immunization knowledge a...

    Authors: Rebecca A. Shalansky, Margaret Wu, Shixin Cindy Shen, Colin Furness, Shaun K. Morris, Donna Reynolds, Tom Wong, Barry Pakes and Natasha Crowcroft
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:442
  37. The goal of this exploratory study is to analyse which psychological characteristics of students are related to the effectiveness of learning clinical interview skills with the use of a virtual patient (VP).

    Authors: Bartosz Zalewski, Maciej Walkiewicz and Mateusz Guziak
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:441
  38. One of the most important objectives of modern medical education is to empower medical students to become humanistic clinicians. Human anatomy plays a crucial role in this mission by using cadavers to cause re...

    Authors: Kaihua Guo, Tao Luo, Li-Hua Zhou, Dazheng Xu, Guangming Zhong, Huaqiao Wang, Jie Xu and Guoliang Chu
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:440
  39. Educational capacity building in pediatric ophthalmology is necessary to address the burden of childhood blindness in Ethiopia. Residency and fellowship training at Addis Ababa University (AAU) have been enhan...

    Authors: Stephanie N. Kletke, Jibat G. Soboka, Helen Dimaras, Sadik T. Sherief and Asim Ali
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:438
  40. Dementia care requires inter-disciplinary collaboration starting from formal health professional education. Yet, little is known about how undergraduate medical and nursing students perceive dementia care in C...

    Authors: Yao Wang, Lily Dongxia Xiao and Rong Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:436

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2020 20:477

  41. The advent of electronic teaching facilities improves tutor-student communication. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of Phone-Based Audience Response System (PB-ARS), as an adjunctive pedagogy tool ...

    Authors: Fahad Alharbi, Khulud F. Alazmi, Bashar R. El Momani, Lubna Al-Muzian, Mark Wertheimer, Anas Almukhtar and Mohammed Almuzian
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:435
  42. Acute otitis media (AOM) is the most frequent indication for antibiotic treatment of children in the United States. Its diagnosis relies on visualization of the tympanic membrane, a clinical skill acquired thr...

    Authors: Caroline R. Paul, Alanna D. Higgins Joyce, Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Meg G. Keeley, Corinne Lehmann, Suzanne M. Schmidt, Kari A. Simonsen and Cynthia Christy
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:429

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