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The development of research capacity among undergraduates is an important intervention in countering the documented decrease in medical and health sciences researchers. The literature on undergraduate research...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:186
Published on: 16 October 2017
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Factors associated with depression of medical students are poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of depression in medical students, its change during the course, if depres...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:184
Published on: 10 October 2017
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E-learning involves delivery of education through Information and Communication Technology (ITC) using a wide variety of instructional designs, including synchronous and asynchronous formats. It can be as effe...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:183
Published on: 10 October 2017
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A hospital with all its brimming activity constitutes a unique learning environment for medical students. However, to organise high-quality education within this context is a task of great complexity. This pap...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:185
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Physicians spend less time at the bedside in the modern hospital setting which has contributed to a decline in physical diagnosis, and in particular, cardiopulmonary examination skills. This trend may be a sou...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:182
Published on: 6 October 2017
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Burnout and depression are common among medical trainees and intensive care unit providers, negatively impacting both providers and patients. We hypothesized that at the end of the pediatric intensive care uni...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:181
Published on: 5 October 2017
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Indigenous health programs are seen as a curriculum response to addressing health disparities and social accountability. Several interrelated teaching approaches to cultural competency curricula have been reco...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:180
Published on: 5 October 2017
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Clinical teachers in medical schools are faced with the challenging task of delivering high-quality patient care, producing high-impact research and contributing to undergraduate medical education all at the s...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:178
Published on: 29 September 2017
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High quality feedback is vital to learning in medical education but many students and teachers have expressed dissatisfaction on current feedback practices. Lack of teachers’ insight into students’ feedback re...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:179
Published on: 29 September 2017
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Adequate estimation and communication of risks is a critical competence of physicians. Due to an evident lack of these competences, effective training addressing risk competence during medical education is nee...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:177
Published on: 26 September 2017
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Emotional intelligence (EI) has been linked with academic and professional success. Such data are scarce in Sri Lanka. This study was conducted to describe the pattern of EI, to determine its predictors and to...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:176
Published on: 25 September 2017
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Studies in the United States have shown that physicians commonly use brand names when documenting medications in an outpatient setting. However, the prevalence of prescribing and documenting brand name medicat...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:175
Published on: 22 September 2017
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An important aspect of virtual patients (VPs), which are interactive computer-based patient scenarios, is authenticity. This includes design aspects, but also how a VP collection represents a patient populatio...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:174
Published on: 22 September 2017
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Although peer assessment has been used for evaluating performance of medical students and practicing doctors, it has not been studied as a method to distribute a common group work mark equitably to medical stu...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:172
Published on: 20 September 2017
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Medical education can be a time of great psychological distress for students. The ongoing Syrian conflict represents an additional factor potentially contributing to poor mental health among medical students. ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:173
Published on: 20 September 2017
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Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of phy...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:171
Published on: 19 September 2017
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With current emphasis on leadership in medicine, this study explores Goleman’s leadership styles of medical education leaders at different hierarchical levels and gain insight into factors that contribute to t...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:169
Published on: 19 September 2017
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Blended learning that combines a modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) with face-to-face teaching was applied to a medical statistics course to improve learning outcomes and evaluate th...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:170
Published on: 19 September 2017
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Smartphones are popular technologies that combine telephone communications and informatics in portable devices. Limited evidence exists regarding their effectiveness in improving academic performance among med...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:168
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Healthcare professionals’ person-centered communication skills are pivotal for successful group-based diabetes education. However, healthcare professionals are often insufficiently equipped to facilitate perso...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:166
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Use of podcasts has several advantages in medical education. Podcasts can be of different types based on their length: short (1–5 min), moderate (6–15 min) and long (>15 min) duration. Short-duration podcasts ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:167
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Developing professionalism is a core task in medical education. Unfortunately, it has remained difficult for educators to identify medical students’ unprofessionalism, because, among other reasons, there are no c...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:164
Published on: 15 September 2017
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The objective of this study is to compare two different instructional methods in the curricular use of computerized virtual patients in undergraduate medical education. We aim to investigate whether using many...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:165
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Screening and counseling for genetic conditions is an increasingly important part of primary care practice, particularly given the paucity of genetic counselors in the United States. However, primary care phys...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:163
Published on: 13 September 2017
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This study aimed to identify hotspots in research on clinical competence measurements from 2012 to 2016.
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:162
Published on: 12 September 2017
