Skip to main content

Articles

Page 61 of 123

  1. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of PBL–CBL combined teaching in thyroid surgery and make observations from the students’ perspectives, based on their satisfaction with the learnin...

    Authors: Wanjun Zhao, Linye He, Wenyi Deng, Jingqiang Zhu, Anping Su and Yong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:381
  2. Efforts have begun to characterize the ethical and professional issues encountered by medical students in their clinical years. By applying previously identified taxonomies to a national sample of medical stud...

    Authors: Michael Hawking, Jenny Kim, Melody Jih, Chelsea Hu and John D. Yoon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:380
  3. Simulation based learning (SBL) is a technique where teachers recreate “real life” clinical experiences for health care teams for purposes of gaining clinical skills in a safe environment. There is evidence th...

    Authors: Josephine Nambi Najjuma, Francis Bajunirwe, Margaret Twine, Tamara Namata, Catherine Kalimba Kyakwera, Moses Cherop and Data Santorino
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:379
  4. Nosocomial infection, also called a hospital-acquired infection, is an infection acquired during admitting patients in health care facilities. Nosocomial infection can be prevented and controlled by giving tra...

    Authors: Tigist Engda
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:378
  5. The coronavirus pandemic has exerted significant impacts on primary care, causing rapid digital transformation, exacerbating social isolation, and disrupting medical student and General Practice [GP] trainee e...

    Authors: Tirion Hughes, Eleanor Beard, Amelia Bowman, Joyce Chan, Katrina Gadsby, Martha Hughes, Maya Humphries, Aaron Johnston, Georgina King, Megan Knock, Kaveeta Malhi, Gerda Mickute, Ebubechi Okpalugo, Madeleine Oliver, Vimukthi Perera, Florence Pickles…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:377
  6. Medical student burnout can cause emotional and physical exhaustion and detachment. The objectives of this study were to evaluate burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS), identify f...

    Authors: Michael Obregon, Jessica Luo, Jarod Shelton, Terri Blevins and Martin MacDowell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:376
  7. The pediatric surgery residency program is new in Saudi Arabia. As with any new program, residents experience a degree of fear and anxiety about their future in the program. The aim of this study is to examine...

    Authors: Tariq Altokhais, Mohammed Al Rajhi, Osama Bawazir, Gassan T. Almogbel, Abdullah I. Aljunaydil and Abdullah Alshehri
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:375
  8. To explore the impact of an online continuing medical education (CME) program on physicians’ knowledge about the management of type two diabetes.

    Authors: Zahra Emami, Azam Kouhkan, Alireza Khajavi and Mohammad E. Khamseh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:374
  9. Anatomy is one of the core subjects in medical education. Students spend considerable time and effort on learning the requisite anatomy knowledge. This study explored the effect of a multiple-player virtual re...

    Authors: Yi-Chun Du, Shih-Chen Fan and Li-Cheng Yang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:343
  10. While medical students are losing interest in lectures in favor of other educational materials, many studies suggest the benefit of active learning, combined with gamified educational tools. The authors develo...

    Authors: Anthony Clément, Raphaël Delage, Marie Chollier, Laure Josse, Stéphane Gaudry, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Thierry Baubet and Bertrand Degos
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:373
  11. For many nursing students, clinical training represents a stressful experience. The levels of stress and anxiety may vary during students’ educational training, depending on their ability to adopt behavioral s...

    Authors: María Dolores Onieva-Zafra, Juan José Fernández-Muñoz, Elia Fernández-Martínez, Francisco José García-Sánchez, Ana Abreu-Sánchez and María Laura Parra-Fernández
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:370
  12. General practice (GP) trainees may seek supervisor assistance to complete their patient consultations. This in-consultation assistance plays a key role in the supervisory oversight of trainees and in trainee l...

    Authors: Nancy J. Sturman, Amanda Tapley, Mieke L. van Driel, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Jean I. Ball, Andrew R. Davey, Alison Fielding, Kristen FitzGerald, Neil A. Spike and Parker J. Magin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:369
  13. The clinical reasoning process, which requires biomedical knowledge, knowledge about problem-solving strategies, and knowledge about reasons for diagnostic procedures, is a key element of physicians’ daily pra...

    Authors: Sophie Fürstenberg, Tillmann Helm, Sarah Prediger, Martina Kadmon, Pascal O. Berberat and Sigrid Harendza
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:368
  14. Effective Interprofessional Communication (IPC) between healthcare professionals enhances teamwork and improves patient care. Yet IPC training remains poorly structured in medical schools. To address this gap,...

    Authors: Chermaine Bok, Cheng Han Ng, Jeffery Wei Heng Koh, Zhi Hao Ong, Haziratul Zakirah Binte Ghazali, Lorraine Hui En Tan, Yun Ting Ong, Clarissa Wei Shuen Cheong, Annelissa Mien Chew Chin, Stephen Mason and Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:372
  15. Students’ ratings of bedside teaching courses are difficult to evaluate and to comprehend. Validated systematic analyses of influences on students’ perception and valuation of bedside teaching can serve as the...

    Authors: Wolf Ramackers, Julia Victoria Stupak, Indra Louisa Marcheel, Annette Tuffs, Harald Schrem, Volkhard Fischer and Jan Beneke
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:371
  16. Blended learning is a new approach to improving the quality of medical education. Acceptance of blended learning plays an important role in its effective implementation. Therefore, the purpose of this study wa...

    Authors: Seyyed Mohsen Azizi, Nasrin Roozbahani and Alireza Khatony
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:367
  17. The ability to compose a concise summary statement about a patient is a good indicator for the clinical reasoning abilities of healthcare students. To assess such summary statements manually a rubric based on ...

    Authors: Inga Hege, Isabel Kiesewetter and Martin Adler
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:366
  18. With almost 20% unnecessary spending on healthcare, there has been increasing interest in high value care defined as the best care for the patient, with the optimal result for the circumstances, delivered at t...

    Authors: Amit K. Pahwa, Kevin Eaton, Ariella Apfel, Amanda Bertram, Rebecca Ridell and Danelle Cayea
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:365
  19. Benchmarking across and within universities is a common tool to evaluate performance of a program and maintain accreditation requirements. While teaching remains a primary responsibility of many academics, aca...

    Authors: Rebecca Donkin, Kieran Broome and Libby Swanepoel
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:364
  20. There is widespread agreement about the importance of communication skills training (CST) for healthcare professionals caring for cancer patients. Communication can be effectively learned and improved through ...

    Authors: S. Tanzi, L. De Panfilis, M. Costantini, G. Artioli, S. Alquati and S. Di Leo
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:363
  21. Interpersonal and Communication Skills (ICS) and Professionalism milestones are challenging to evaluate during medical training. Paucity in proficiency, direction and validity evidence of assessment tools of t...

    Authors: Abd Moain Abu Dabrh, Thomas A. Waller, Robert P. Bonacci, Anem J. Nawaz, Joshua J. Keith, Anjali Agarwal, John Merfeld, Terri Nordin, Mary Michelle Winscott, Thomas E. Belda, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Sally Ann L. Pantin, Lawrence W. Steinkraus, Thomas J. Grau and Kurt B. Angstman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:362
  22. Primary care providers’ (PCPs) attitude toward obesity is often negative, and their confidence level for helping patients manage their weight is low. Continuing professional development (CPD) on the subject of...

    Authors: Jean-Patrice Baillargeon, Denise St-Cyr-Tribble, Marianne Xhignesse, Christine Brown, André C. Carpentier, Martin Fortin, Andrew Grant, Judith Simoneau-Roy and Marie-France Langlois
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:361
  23. Arguably, Medical School curricula are deficient in learning opportunities related to the safe and effective use of medicines, in particular antimicrobials. Infection management is complex and multidisciplinar...

    Authors: Clare Guilding, Jessica Hardisty, Elsa Randles, Louise Statham, Alan Green, Roshni Bhudia, Charan Singh Thandi, Andrew Teodorczuk, Lesley Scott and Joanna Matthan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:360
  24. Research in healthcare, including students as participants, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental and survey...

    Authors: Efrem Violato, Sharla King and Okan Bulut
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:359
  25. As increasing the number of organ donations presents a global challenge, Saudi Arabia is no different. Intensivists can play a major role in maximizing the organ donation process and minimize the challenges. T...

    Authors: Yasser M. Kazzaz and Omar B. Da’ar
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:358
  26. In medical settings, multisource feedback (MSF) is a recognised method of formative assessment. It collects feedback on a doctor’s performance from several perspectives in the form of questionnaires. Yet, no v...

    Authors: Eva K. Hennel, Ulrike Subotic, Christoph Berendonk, Daniel Stricker, Sigrid Harendza and Sören Huwendiek
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:357
  27. Intensive study of the biomedical sciences remains a core component of undergraduate medical education with medical students often completing up to 2 years of biomedical science training prior to entering cler...

    Authors: Bonny L. Dickinson, Kristine Gibson, Kristi VanDerKolk, Jeffrey Greene, Claudia A. Rosu, Deborah D. Navedo, Kirsten A. Porter-Stransky and Lisa E. Graves
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:356

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2020 20:428

  28. Multisource feedback (MSF) is increasingly being used to assess trainee performance, with different assessor groups fulfilling a crucial role in utility of assessment data. However, in health professions educa...

    Authors: Muhammad Tariq, Marjan Govaerts, Azam Afzal, Syed Ahsan Ali and Tabassum Zehra
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:355
  29. On account of physical distancing measures, universities worldwide are strongly affected by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Thus, the dental school of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany) transferred the establis...

    Authors: Maximiliane Amelie Schlenz, Alexander Schmidt, Bernd Wöstmann, Nobert Krämer and Nelly Schulz-Weidner
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:354
  30. Medical curricula are increasingly internationalized, with international students being mixed with domestic students in small group learning. Small group learning is known to foster competency learning in unde...

    Authors: Yan Zhou, Agnes D. Diemers, Jasperina Brouwer, Friso L. H. Muntinghe, Robbert J. Duvivier, Jan Pols, A. Debbie C. Jaarsma and Nicolaas A. Bos
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:353
  31. In Danish GP training we had the ambition to enhance and assess global reflection ability, but since we found no appropriate validated method in the literature, we decided to develop a new assessment tool. Thi...

    Authors: Gunver Lillevang, Helle Ibsen, Søren Hast Prins and Niels Kristian Kjaer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:352
  32. Non-technical skills (NTS) are an indispensable element of emergency care and need to be prevalent alongside with good technical skills. Though, questions of how to teach (instructional design) and improve NTS...

    Authors: Leonie Schulte-Uentrop, Jonathan S. Cronje, Christian Zöllner, Jens C. Kubitz, Susanne Sehner and Parisa Moll-Khosrawi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:351
  33. The letter of recommendation is currently an integral part of applicant selection for residency programs. Internal medicine residents will spend much time and expense completing sub-specialty away electives to...

    Authors: Deepti Chopra, Mala Joneja, Gurjit Sandhu, Christopher A. Smith, Catherine M. Spagnuolo and Lawrence Hookey
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:350
  34. Whilst competence in the management of a wide range of urological emergencies is a requirement for certification in urology, many conditions are uncommon and exposure during training may be limited. This prosp...

    Authors: Nicholas Bullock, Thomas Ellul, Suzanne Biers, James Armitage, Sophia Cashman, Krishna Narahari, Oleg Tatarov, Neil Fenn, Pradeep Bose, Jonathan Featherstone and Owen Hughes
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:349
  35. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has engendered difficulties for health systems globally; however, the effect of the pandemic on emergency medicine (EM) residency training programs is unknown. ...

    Authors: Hsiang-Yun Lo, Shen-Che Lin, Chung-Hsien Chaou, Yu-Che Chang, Chip-Jin Ng and Shou-Yen Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:348

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2022 22:727

  36. The rapid progression of diseases and the complex, changing landscape of healthcare has increased the awareness that interprofessional collaboration is essential in ensuring safe and effective healthcare deliv...

    Authors: Sarentha Chetty, Varsha Bangalee and Petra Brysiewicz
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:346
  37. The introduction of skeletal Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs) into orthodontics has provided orthodontists with reliable techniques of correcting anchorage problems. The objective of this study was to evalua...

    Authors: Manal M. Abu Al-Melh and Abrar N. Al-Anzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:340
  38. As COVID-19 has been declared as a pandemic disease by the WHO on March 11th, 2020, the global incidence of COVID-19 disease increased dramatically. In response to the COVID-19 situation, Jordan announced the ...

    Authors: Mahmoud Al-Balas, Hasan Ibrahim Al-Balas, Hatim M. Jaber, Khaled Obeidat, Hamzeh Al-Balas, Emad A. Aborajooh, Raed Al-Taher and Bayan Al-Balas
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:341

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2020 20:513

  39. According to the Latin America Association for palliative care, Brazil offers only 0.48 palliative care services per 1 million inhabitants. In 2012, no accredited physicians were working in palliative care, wh...

    Authors: Thais Ioshimoto, Danielle Ioshimoto Shitara, Gilmar Fernades do Prado, Raymon Pizzoni, Rafael Hennemann Sassi and Aécio Flávio Teixeira de Gois
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:339
  40. The learning environment is one of the most influential factors in training of medical residents. The Dutch Residency Educational Climate Test (D-RECT) is one of the strongest instruments for measuring the lea...

    Authors: Mohamed Anass Majbar, Yassin Majbar, Amine Benkabbou, Laila Amrani, Abdeslam Bougtab, Raouf Mohsine and Amine Souadka
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:338
  41. Community-based medical education (CBME) has been evolving globally. However, the long-term impacts of CBME programs on career intention are ambiguous. Therefore, this study aimed to reveal the long-term impac...

    Authors: Shinsuke Yahata, Taro Takeshima, Tsuneaki Kenzaka and Masanobu Okayama
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:337
  42. Communication skill is a core competency in neurology residency training. Specific training in this area at the residency level is often lacking, especially regarding difficult conversations. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Lixin Zhou, Bo Wu, Liyong Wu, Xin Cheng, Bo Hu, Ming Yao, Yicheng Zhu, Bin Peng, Liying Cui and Jun Ni
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:336
  43. Medical education is characterized by numerous features that are different from other higher education programmes, and evaluations of teaching quality are an integral part of medical education. Although schola...

    Authors: Zemiao Zhang, Qi Wu, Xinping Zhang, Juyang Xiong, Lan Zhang and Hong Le
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:333

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.6 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.9 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.792 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.914 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    41 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    191 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    6,205,310 downloads
    3,103 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal