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  1. Modernised medical curricula in Germany (so called “reformed study programs”) rely increasingly on alternative self-instructed learning forms such as e-learning and curriculum-guided self-study. However, there...

    Authors: Arne Peine, Klaus Kabino and Cord Spreckelsen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:158
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Education 2016 16:265

  2. Unconscious bias and negative attitudes towards minority groups have detrimental effects on the way health care is, or is not, provided to these groups. Recognition of racist attitudes and behaviours as well a...

    Authors: Toni Wain, Moira Sim, Dawn Bessarab, Donna Mak, Colleen Hayward and Cobie Rudd
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:156
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  3. The attitudes of healthcare professionals towards HIV positive patients and high risk groups are central to the quality of care and therefore to the management of HIV/AIDS related stigma in health settings. Ex...

    Authors: Keivan Ahmadi, Daniel D. Reidpath, Pascale Allotey and Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:155
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  4. The transition from student to health practitioner at entry-to-practice is complex, requiring critical acquisition of collaborative practice skills. In rural communities where health need is multidimensional, ...

    Authors: Susan (Sue) Pullon, Christine Wilson, Peter Gallagher, Margot Skinner, Eileen McKinlay, Lesley Gray and Patrick McHugh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:154
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  5. The use of simulation training in postgraduate medical education is an area of rapidly growing popularity and research. This study was designed to assess the impact of simulation training for instrument knowle...

    Authors: David B. Clarke, Nelofar Kureshi, Murray Hong, Maryam Sadeghi and Ryan C. N. D’Arcy
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:153
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  7. Identifying factors that improve job satisfaction of new doctors and ease the difficult transition from student to doctor is of great interest to public health agencies. Studies to date have focused primarily ...

    Authors: Shelly Lachish, Michael J. Goldacre and Trevor Lambert
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:151
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  8. Effective communication with patients impacts clinical outcome and patient satisfaction. We measure the rate at which medical students use six targeted communication elements with patients and association of e...

    Authors: Joseph S. Turner, Katie E. Pettit, Bryce B. Buente, Aloysius J. Humbert, Anthony J. Perkins and Jeffrey A. Kline
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:150
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  10. The debriefing phase is an important feature of simulation activities for learning. This study applies a sociomaterial perspective on debriefing in interprofessional simulation with medical and nursing student...

    Authors: Sofia Nyström, Johanna Dahlberg, Samuel Edelbring, Håkan Hult and Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:148
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  12. Virtual Patients (VPs) have been in the focus of research in healthcare education for many years. The aim of our study was to analyze how virtual patients are described in the healthcare education literature, ...

    Authors: Inga Hege, Andrzej A. Kononowicz, Daniel Tolks, Samuel Edelbring and Katja Kuehlmeyer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:146
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  13. Written comments by medical student supervisors provide written foundation for grade narratives and deans’ letters and play an important role in student’s professional development. Written comments are widely ...

    Authors: Lauren Gulbas, William Guerin and Hilary F. Ryder
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Evidence is needed to develop effective educational programs for promoting evidence based practice (EBP) and knowledge translation (KT) in physical therapy. This study reports long-term outcomes from a feasibi...

    Authors: Julie K. Tilson, Sharon Mickan, Robbin Howard, Jonathan C. Sum, Maria Zibell, Lyssa Cleary, Bella Mody and Lori A. Michener
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:144
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  15. Training bodies see teaching by junior doctors and vocational trainees in general practice (family medicine) as integral to a doctor’s role. While there is a body of literature on teacher training programs, an...

    Authors: Thea F. van de Mortel, Peter L. Silberberg, Christine M. Ahern and Sabrina W. Pit
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:143
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  16. In the UK the incidence of oral cancers has risen by a third in the last decade, and there have been minimal improvements in survival rates. Moreover, a significant proportion of the population no longer acces...

    Authors: Aneeta Ahluwalia, Tim Crossman and Helen Smith
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:142
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  17. A new project on education in family medicine training was implemented last year in Slovenia by establishing regional coordinators in the specialist training programme. They are responsible for conducting regu...

    Authors: Davorina Petek, Polona Vidič Hudobivnik, Viktorija Jančar, Bojana Petek and Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:141
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  18. Most people want to die at home but only half do. Supporting patients in rural locations is challenging. Video calls such as Skype, might help but are not routinely used; we should consider learning needs to i...

    Authors: Sarah Statton, Ray Jones, Martin Thomas, Tracie North, Ruth Endacott, Adrian Frost, Dazzle Tighe and Gail Wilson
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:140
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  19. Internal Medicine residents experience conflict between inpatient and outpatient medicine responsibilities. Outpatient “between visit” responsibilities such as reviewing lab and imaging data, responding to med...

    Authors: Jason Hom, Ilana Richman, Jonathan H. Chen, Baldeep Singh, Casey Crump and Jeffrey Chi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:139
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  21. Service learning is endorsed by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) as an integral part of U.S. medical school curricula for future physicians. Service learning has been shown to help physicians ...

    Authors: Winona K. Lee, Chessa C. D. Harris, Kawika A. Mortensen, Linsey M. Long and Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:137
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  22. China faces major challenges in the distribution of health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas and in the development of Primary Care Providers (PCPs). This study investigates the career prefer...

    Authors: Jianlin Hou, Maoyi Xu, Joseph C. Kolars, Zhe Dong, Weimin Wang, Amy Huang and Yang Ke
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:136
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  23. Most medical schools fail to provide adequate training of clinicians in the treatment of pain. Similarly, despite the fact that over 1/3 of Americans suffer from chronic pain, National Institutes of Health (NI...

    Authors: Benedict J. Kolber, Jelena M. Janjic, John A. Pollock and Kevin J. Tidgewell
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:135
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  24. In standard setting techniques involving panels of judges, the attributes of judges may affect the cut-scores. This simulation study modelled the effect of the number of judges and test items, as well as the i...

    Authors: Boaz Shulruf, Tim Wilkinson, Jennifer Weller, Philip Jones and Phillippa Poole
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:134
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  25. Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) can be used to educate Foundation Programme trainee (F1 and F2) doctors. Despite the advantages of TEL, learning behaviours may be exhibited that are not desired by system de...

    Authors: Hannah L. Brooks, Sarah K. Pontefract, James Hodson, Nicholas Blackwell, Elizabeth Hughes, John F. Marriott and Jamie J. Coleman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:133
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  26. Heterogeneous basic science knowledge of medical students is an important challenge for medical education. In this study, the authors aimed at exploring the value and role of integrated supportive science (ISS...

    Authors: Sophie Eisenbarth, Thomas Tilling, Eva Lueerss, Jelka Meyer, Susanne Sehner, Andreas H. Guse and Jennifer Guse (nee Kurré)
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:132
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  27. Practicing healthcare professionals and graduates exiting training programs are often ill-equipped to facilitate important discussions about end-of-life care with patients and their families. We conducted a sy...

    Authors: Han-Oh Chung, Simon J. W. Oczkowski, Louise Hanvey, Lawrence Mbuagbaw and John J. You
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:131
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  28. Community Based Education and Service (COBES) are those learning activities that make use of the community as a learning environment. COBES exposes students to the public and primary health care needs of rural...

    Authors: A. Amalba, W. N. K. A. van Mook, V. Mogre and A. J. J. A. Scherpbier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:130
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  29. Email is widely used as a means of communication between faculty members and students in medical education because of its practical and educational advantages. However, because of the distinctive nature of med...

    Authors: Do-Hwan Kim, Hyun Bae Yoon, Dong-Mi Yoo, Sang-Min Lee, Hee-Yeon Jung, Seog Ju Kim, Jwa-Seop Shin, Seunghee Lee and Jae-Joon Yim
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:129
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  30. Evidence suggests that poor performance on standardized tests before and early in medical school is associated with poor performance on standardized tests later in medical school and beyond. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Petra M. Casey, Brian A. Palmer, Geoffrey B. Thompson, Torrey A. Laack, Matthew R. Thomas, Martha F. Hartz, Jani R. Jensen, Benjamin J. Sandefur, Julie E. Hammack, Jerry W. Swanson, Robert D. Sheeler and Joseph P. Grande
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:128
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  31. Physicians-in-training are challenged every day with grueling academic requirements, job strain, and patient safety concerns. Residency shapes the skills and values that will percolate to patient care and prof...

    Authors: Heather B. Leisy and Meleha Ahmad
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:127
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  32. As the medicine practiced in hospital settings has become more specialized, training in primary care is becoming increasingly essential for medical students, especially for future general practitioners (GPs). ...

    Authors: Laurent Letrilliart, Pauline Rigault-Fossier, Benoit Fossier, Nadir Kellou, Françoise Paumier, Christophe Bois, Stéphanie Polazzi, Anne-Marie Schott and Yves Zerbib
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:126
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  33. In Finland the number of medical specialists varies between specialties and regions. More regulation of the post-graduate medical training is planned. Therefore, it is important to clarify what predicts doctor...

    Authors: Teppo J. Heikkilä, Harri Hyppölä, Jukka Vänskä, Hannu Halila, Santero Kujala, Irma Virjo, Markku Sumanen, Elise Kosunen and Kari Mattila
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:125
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  34. Failure to recognize and appropriately manage dengue early in the clinical course may result in late initiation of supportive treatment for severe disease. In Florida, travel-related and autochthonous dengue o...

    Authors: Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, Aileen Chang, Renee Jiddou-Yaldoo, Kay M. Tomashek, Danielle Stanek, Leena Anil and Paola Lichtenberger
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:124
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  35. It has been realised that there is need to have medical training closer to communities where the majority of the population lives in order to orient the trainees’ attitudes towards future practice in such comm...

    Authors: Lynn M. Atuyambe, Rhona K. Baingana, Simon P. S. Kibira, Anne Katahoire, Elialilia Okello, David K. Mafigiri, Florence Ayebare, Henry Oboke, Christine Acio, Kintu Muggaga, Scovia Mbalinda, Ruth Nabaggala, Gad Ruzaaza, Wilfred Arubaku, Samantha Mary, Peter Akera…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:123
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  36. Students’ self-regulated learning becomes essential with increased use of exploratory web-based activities such as virtual patients (VPs). The purpose was to investigate the interplay between students’ self-re...

    Authors: Samuel Edelbring and Rolf Wahlström
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:122
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  37. Medical schools need to teach future physicians about health literacy and patient-doctor communication, especially when working with vulnerable communities, but many fall short. In this article, we present a c...

    Authors: Emily Milford, Kristin Morrison, Carol Teutsch, Bergen B. Nelson, Ariella Herman, Mernell King and Nathan Beucke
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:121
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  38. Online information resources function dually as important learning tools and sources of the latest evidence-based recommendations for junior medical officers (JMOs). However, little is currently known about ho...

    Authors: Heng Teck Chong, Michael James Weightman, Peranada Sirichai and Alison Jones
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:120
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  39. Many national outcome frameworks (OF) call for a sound scholarship education and scholarly behaviour of physicians. Educators however are known to interpret the scholar role in markedly different ways and at l...

    Authors: Stefanie C. Hautz, Wolf E. Hautz, Markus A. Feufel and Claudia D. Spies
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:119
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  40. A primary barrier to the implementation of evidence based practice (EBP) in physical therapy is therapists’ limited ability to understand and interpret statistics. Physical therapists demonstrate limited skill...

    Authors: Julie K. Tilson, Katie Marshall, Jodi J. Tam and Linda Fetters
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:118
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  41. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are increasingly used as a focus for assessment in graduate medical education (GME). However, a consistent approach to guide EPA design is currently lacking, in parti...

    Authors: James Kwan, Roslyn Crampton, Lise L. Mogensen, Roslyn Weaver, Cees P. M. van der Vleuten and Wendy C. Y. Hu
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:117
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  42. Optometry has, over the past ten years, emerged as a profession strategically positioned to address the burden of uncorrected refractive error in developing countries. Estimates suggest that 285 million people...

    Authors: Diane Wallace, James Loughman and Kovin Naidoo
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:116
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  45. A general practice rotation is mandatory in most undergraduate medical education programs. However, little is known about the student-teacher interaction which takes place in this setting. In this study we ana...

    Authors: Gertrude Florence Duncan, Lisa Marie Roth, Nobert Donner-Banzhoff and Stefan Boesner
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:113
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. 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:

  49. 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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  50. 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:
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