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  1. Preparing medical students with the skills necessary to deal with emergency situations as junior doctors can be challenging due to the complexities of creating authentic ‘real life’ experiences in artificial e...

    Authors: Simon Watmough, Helen Box, Nick Bennett, Alison Stewart and Michael Farrell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:110
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Informal peer learning is a particularly powerful form of learning for medical teachers, although it does not always occur automatically in the departments of medical schools. In this article, the authors expl...

    Authors: Thea van Lankveld, Judith Schoonenboom, Rashmi Kusurkar, Jos Beishuizen, Gerda Croiset and Monique Volman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:109
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  3. Experiencing the death of a patient can be one of the most challenging aspects of clinical medicine for medical students. Exploring what students' learn from this difficult experience may contribute to our und...

    Authors: Kelby Smith-Han, Helen Martyn, Anthony Barrett and Helen Nicholson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:108
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Improving the knowledge and competencies of healthcare professionals is crucial to better address the specific needs of persons living in poverty and avoid stigmatization. This study aimed to explore the needs...

    Authors: Catherine Hudon, Christine Loignon, Cristina Grabovschi, Paula Bush, Mireille Lambert, Émilie Goulet, Sophie Boyer, Marianne De Laat and Nathalie Fournier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:106
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  6. There is a high burden of unmet health needs for people with intellectual disability. Despite experiencing significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality compared with the general population, this group...

    Authors: Julian N. Trollor, Beth Ruffell, Jane Tracy, Jennifer J. Torr, Seeta Durvasula, Teresa Iacono, Claire Eagleson and Nicolas Lennox
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:105
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  7. Innovation and change in postgraduate medical education programs affects teaching hospital organizations, since medical education and clinical service are interrelated.

    Authors: Tiuri R. van Rossum, Fedde Scheele, Albert J. J. A. Scherpbier, Henk E. Sluiter and Ide C. Heyligers
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:104
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  8. Basic skills in evidence-based medicine (EbM) are indispensable for healthcare professionals to promote consumer-centred, evidence-based treatment. EbM training courses are complex interventions – a fact that ...

    Authors: Lars Hecht, Susanne Buhse and Gabriele Meyer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:103
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Introducing reflective writing to a medical curriculum requires the acceptance and participation of teachers. The purpose of this study was to explore medical teachers’ views on the benefits of introducing a r...

    Authors: Kanokporn Sukhato, Sutida Sumrithe, Chathaya Wongrathanandha, Saipin Hathirat, Wajana Leelapattana and Alan Dellow
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:102
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Professionalism defines the relationship between colleagues, patients and the society as a whole. Furthermore, being a social construct, professionalism is sophisticated to be regarded simply as a single conce...

    Authors: Daniel Kinyuru Ojuka, Joyce M. Olenja, Nimrod J. Mwango’mbe, Eunbae B. Yang and Jana B. Macleod
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:101
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. The achievement goal theory defines two major foci of students’ learning goals (1) primarily interested in truly mastering a task (mastery orientation), and (2) striving to show ones competences to others (per...

    Authors: Ada Kool, Tim Mainhard, Mieke Brekelmans, Peter van Beukelen and Debbie Jaarsma
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:100
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  12. To present learning outcomes in clinical communication for a Core Curriculum for medical undergraduate students in Latin America, Portugal and Spain (LAPS-CCC) and to establish an expert network to support a t...

    Authors: Cristina García de Leonardo, Roger Ruiz-Moral, Fernando Caballero, Afonso Cavaco, Philippa Moore, Lila Paula Dupuy, Antonio Pithon-Cyrino, Mª Teresa Cortés, Marilen Gorostegui, Elizabete Loureiro, Josep Mª Bosch Fontcuberta, Luis Casasbuenas Duarte, Lara Kretzer, Emilia Arrighi and Albert Jovell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:99
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  13. Simulation based learning environments are designed to improve the quality of medical education by allowing students to interact with patients, diagnostic laboratory procedures, and patient data in a virtual e...

    Authors: Guido Makransky, Mads T. Bonde, Julie S. G. Wulff, Jakob Wandall, Michelle Hood, Peter A. Creed, Iben Bache, Asli Silahtaroglu and Anne Nørremølle
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:98
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  14. There is a growing perception that the left handed (LH) medical students are facing difficulties while performing the clinical tasks that involve psychomotor skill, although the evidence is very limited and di...

    Authors: Sami Alnassar, Aljoharah Nasser Alrashoudi, Mody Alaqeel, Hala Alotaibi, Alanoud Alkahel, Waseem Hajjar, Ghadeer Al-shaikh, Abdulaziz Alsaif, Shafiul Haque and Sultan Ayoub Meo
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:97
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Health professions education is characterised by work-based learning and relies on effective verbal feedback. However the literature reports problems in feedback practice, including lack of both learner engage...

    Authors: Christina E. Johnson, Jennifer L. Keating, David J. Boud, Megan Dalton, Debra Kiegaldie, Margaret Hay, Barry McGrath, Wendy A. McKenzie, Kichu Balakrishnan R. Nair, Debra Nestel, Claire Palermo and Elizabeth K. Molloy
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:96
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  16. The use of cadavers in human anatomy teaching requires adequate number of anatomy instructors who can provide close supervision of the students. Most medical schools are facing challenges of lack of trained in...

    Authors: Mange Manyama, Renae Stafford, Erick Mazyala, Anthony Lukanima, Ndulu Magele, Benson R. Kidenya, Emmanuel Kimwaga, Sifael Msuya and Julius Kauki
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:95
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  17. The motivation to volunteer on a medical service trip (MST) may involve more than a simple desire for philanthropy. Some volunteers may be motivated by an intrinsic interest in volunteering in which the contex...

    Authors: John Rovers, Kelsey Japs, Erica Truong and Yogesh Shah
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:94
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  18. Increasingly, medical educators are incorporating reflective writing and original creative work into educational practices with the goals of stimulating student self-awareness, appreciation of multiple perspec...

    Authors: Johanna Shapiro, Diane Ortiz, You Ye Ree and Minha Sarwar
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:93
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  19. Although a core element in patient care the trajectory of empathy during undergraduate medical education remains unclear. Empathy is generally regarded as comprising an affective capacity: the ability to be se...

    Authors: Thelma A Quince, Paul Kinnersley, Jonathan Hales, Ana da Silva, Helen Moriarty, Pia Thiemann, Sarah Hyde, James Brimicombe, Diana Wood, Matthew Barclay and John Benson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:92
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  20. Adverse events are a significant quality and safety issue in the hospital setting due to their direct impact on patients. Additionally, such events are often handled by junior doctors due to their direct invol...

    Authors: Anna Janssen, Tim Shaw, Lauren Bradbury, Tania Moujaber, Anne Mette Nørrelykke, Jessica A. Zerillo, Ann LaCasce, John Patrick T. Co, Tracy Robinson, Alison Starr and Paul Harnett
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:91
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  21. The purpose of this study was to identify whether psychological stress increased as undergraduate dental students progressed through their studies from first to fifth year. Another objective was to determine i...

    Authors: Suha B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Hawazen N. Sonbol and Lamis D. Rajab
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:90
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  23. Evidence suggests that junior doctors lack the confidence and skills to manage acute/inpatient diabetes. We investigated the impact of the introduction of a “Diabetes Acute Care Day” on undergraduate medical s...

    Authors: A. W. MacEwen, D. M. Carty, A McConnachie, G. A. McKay and J. G. Boyle
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:88
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Evidence for the predictive validity of situational judgement tests (SJTs) and multiple-mini interviews (MMIs) is well-established in undergraduate selection contexts, however at present there is less evidence...

    Authors: Fiona Patterson, Emma Rowett, Robert Hale, Marcia Grant, Chris Roberts, Fran Cousans and Stuart Martin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:87
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Many doctors fail to practice Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) effectively, in part due to insufficient training. We report on the design, fate and impact of a short learner-centered EBM train-the-trainer program...

    Authors: Johan Thor, Daniel Olsson and Jörgen Nordenström
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:86
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Peer tutoring has been described as “people from similar social groupings who are not professional teachers helping each other to learn and learning themselves by teaching”. Peer tutoring is well accepted as a...

    Authors: Annette Burgess, Tim Dornan, Antonia J. Clarke, Audrey Menezes and Craig Mellis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:85
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  27. There has been an increased emphasis on institutional births, and thus an increasing clinical work load for health care professionals in the recent past. Hence, continuing education, training, ongoing supervis...

    Authors: V. Prakash, Anu Thukral, M. Jeeva Sankar, Ramesh K. Agarwal, Vinod K. Paul and Ashok K. Deorari
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:84
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  28. There is little research on large-scale complex health care simulations designed to facilitate student learning of non-technical skills in a team-working environment. We evaluated the acceptability and effecti...

    Authors: Christine Jorm, Chris Roberts, Renee Lim, Josephine Roper, Clare Skinner, Jeremy Robertson, Stacey Gentilcore and Adam Osomanski
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:83
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  29. The introduction of Stellenbosch University’s Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum offers a unique and exciting training model to develop generalist doc...

    Authors: Klaus B. von Pressentin, Firdouza Waggie and Hoffie Conradie
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:82
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Despite the high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in China, HBV infection prevention and long-term care knowledge of health professionals is inadequate. To address this knowledge gap, we...

    Authors: Jing Wang, Qiming Feng, Andrew Tam, Tong Sun, Peijing Zhou and Samuel So
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:81
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Interprofessional education (IPE) requires health students to learn with, from and about each other in order to develop a modern workforce with client-centred care at its core. Despite the client centred focus...

    Authors: Karen T. Hallam, Karen Livesay, Romana Morda, Jenny Sharples, Andi Jones and Maximilian de Courten
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:80
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  32. Career choices and placements of healthcare professionals in rural areas are a major problem worldwide, and their recruitment and retention to these areas have become a challenge to the health sector. The purp...

    Authors: Anthony Amalba, Walther Nicolaas Karel Anton van Mook, Victor Mogre and Albert Jakob Johannus Antonius Scherpbier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:79
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The uptake of evidence in practice by physicians, even if they are trained in the systematic method of evidence-based medicine (EBM), remains difficult to improve. The aim of this study was to explore percepti...

    Authors: Jan L. Hoving, Rob Kok, Sarah M. Ketelaar, Paul B. A. Smits, Frank J. H. van Dijk and Jos H. Verbeek
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:77
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  36. As health care exists to alleviate patients’ suffering it is unacceptable that it inflicts unnecessary suffering on patients. We therefore have developed and evaluated a drama pedagogical model for staff inter...

    Authors: Barbro Wijma, Anke Zbikowski and A. Jelmer Brüggemann
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:75
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  37. Clinical placements in acute hospitals present challenges for students with vision impairment who are being educated as health care professionals. Legislation in Australia supports reasonable adjustments to ed...

    Authors: Kylie N. Johnston, Shylie Mackintosh, Matthew Alcock, Amy Conlon-Leard and Stephen Manson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:74
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  38. Advanced communication skills are vital for allied health professionals, yet students often have limited opportunities in which to develop them. The option of increasing clinical placement hours is unsustainab...

    Authors: Michelle Quail, Shelley B Brundage, Josh Spitalnick, Peter J Allen and Janet Beilby
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:73
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Patient-physician communication should be based on plain and simple language. Despite communication skill trainings in undergraduate medical curricula medical students and physicians are often still not aware ...

    Authors: Anja Bittner, Johannes Bittner, Ansgar Jonietz, Christoph Dybowski and Sigrid Harendza
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:72
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  40. Health care professionals are expected to build decisions upon evidence. This implies decisions based on the best available, current, valid and relevant evidence, informed by clinical expertise and patient val...

    Authors: Grete Oline Hole, Sissel Johansson Brenna, Birgitte Graverholt, Donna Ciliska and Monica Wammen Nortvedt
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Neurogenic dysphagia is one of the most frequent and prognostically relevant neurological deficits in a variety of disorders, such as stroke, parkinsonism and advanced neuromuscular diseases. Flexible endoscop...

    Authors: Rainer Dziewas, Jörg Glahn, Christine Helfer, Guntram Ickenstein, Jochen Keller, Christian Ledl, Beate Lindner-Pfleghar, Darius G. Nabavi, Mario Prosiegel, Axel Riecker, Sriramya Lapa, Sönke Stanschus, Tobias Warnecke and Otto Busse
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:70
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  42. The majority of studies on prevalence and characteristics of residents in difficulty have been conducted in English-speaking countries and the existing literature may not reflect the prevalence and characteris...

    Authors: Mette K. Christensen, Lotte O’Neill, Dorthe H. Hansen, Karen Norberg, Lene S. Mortensen and Peder Charles
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:69
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. In order to consolidate their educational knowledge and skills and develop their educational role, many clinicians undertake professional development in clinical education and supervision. It is well establish...

    Authors: Koshila Kumar and Jennene Greenhill
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:68
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Social media use by physicians offers potential benefits but may also be associated with professionalism problems. The objectives of this study were: 1) to examine and compare characteristics of social media u...

    Authors: Elizabeth A. Kitsis, Felise B. Milan, Hillel W. Cohen, Daniel Myers, Patrick Herron, Mimi McEvoy, Jacqueline Weingarten and Martha S. Grayson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:67
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  45. A portfolio of supporting information (SI) reflecting a doctor’s entire medical practice is now a central aspect of UK appraisal for revalidation. Medical revalidation, introduced in 2012, is an assessment of ...

    Authors: Daniel S. Furmedge, Ann Griffin, Catherine O’Keeffe, Anju Verma, Laura-Jane Smith and Deborah Gill
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Reviewing program educational efforts is an important component of postgraduate medical education program accreditation. The post-graduate review process has evolved over time to include centralized oversight ...

    Authors: Monica L. Lypson, Mark E. P. Prince, Steven J. Kasten, Nicholas H. Osborne, Richard H. Cohan, Terry Kowalenko, Paul J. Dougherty, R. Kevin Reynolds, M. Catherine Spires, Jeffrey H. Kozlow and Scott D. Gitlin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:65
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Global health rotations are increasingly popular amongst medical students. The training abroad is highly variable and there is a recognized need for global health curriculum development. We sought to create an...

    Authors: Jaime Jordan, Risa Hoffman, Gitanjli Arora and Wendy Coates
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. To qualitatively explore physiotherapy students’ perceptions of online e-learning for chronic disease management using a previously developed, innovative and interactive, evidence-based, e-learning package: Rh...

    Authors: Peter Gardner, Helen Slater, Joanne E. Jordan, Robyn E. Fary, Jason Chua and Andrew M. Briggs
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:62
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Improved research ability is a core competency to achieve in health professionals. The Selectives is a three-year, longitudinal, community-based programme within the undergraduate curriculum which aims to deve...

    Authors: Stephen E. Knight, Jacqueline M. Van Wyk and Saajida Mahomed
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Shared learning activities aim to enhance the collaborative skills of health students and professionals in relation to both colleagues and patients. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale is used t...

    Authors: Birgitte Nørgaard, Eva Draborg and Jan Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:60
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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