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  1. Sixty percent of the 10.9 million under-5 deaths every year are related to malnutrition. More than two thirds of malnutrition is caused by inappropriate infant feeding practice. Only 35 % of mothers worldwide ...

    Authors: Damayanti Rusli Sjarif, Klara Yuliarti, Luh Karunia Wahyuni, Tjhin Wiguna, Titis Prawitasari, Yoga Devaera, Henni Wahyu Triyuniati and Andika Afriansyah
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:210
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  2. Medical practitioners and students are at increased risk of a number of personal and psychological problems. Stress and anxiety due to work-load and study requirements are common and self-care methods are impo...

    Authors: Declan Aherne, Katie Farrant, Louise Hickey, Emma Hickey, Lisa McGrath and Deirdre McGrath
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:209
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  3. Despite demonstrated benefits of continuity of care, longitudinal care experiences are difficult to provide to medical students. A series of standardized patient encounters was developed as an innovative curri...

    Authors: Bonnie M. Vest, Abigail Lynch, Denise McGuigan, Timothy Servoss, Karen Zinnerstrom and Andrew B. Symons
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:208
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  4. Smartphones are ubiquitous and commonly used as a learning and information resource. They have potential to revolutionize medical education and medical practice. The iDoc project provides a medical textbook sm...

    Authors: Rebecca Dimond, Alison Bullock, Joseph Lovatt and Mark Stacey
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:207
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  5. The successful development and sustaining of professional identity is critical to being a successful doctor. This study explores the enduring impact of significant early role models on the professional identit...

    Authors: Kirsty Foster and Chris Roberts
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:206
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  6. Students may have different learning styles. It is unclear, however, whether tailoring instructional methods for a student’s preferred learning style improves educational outcomes when teaching procedures. The...

    Authors: Dimitrios Papanagnou, Antonio Serrano, Kaitlyn Barkley, Shruti Chandra, Nicholas Governatori, Nicole Piela, Gregory K. Wanner and Richard Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:205
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  7. Physician empathy is associated with improved diabetes outcomes. However, empathy declines throughout medical school training. This study seeks to describe how comics on diabetes affect learning processes for ...

    Authors: Pamela Tsao and Catherine H. Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:204
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  8. The use of simulation in medical education is increasing, with students taught and assessed using simulated patients and manikins. Medical students at Queen’s University of Belfast are taught advanced life sup...

    Authors: Andrew D. Spence, Sonia Derbyshire, Ian K. Walsh and James M. Murray
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:203
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  9. Best practices for conflict-of-interest (COI) policies in medical schools have evolved rapidly over the past decade, in part motivated by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) scorecard that has publ...

    Authors: Daniel J. Carlat, Teddy Fagrelius, Reshma Ramachandran, Joseph S. Ross and Sallyann Bergh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:202
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  11. Active engagement in education improves learning outcomes. To enhance active participation in seminars, a student-centered course design was implemented and evaluated in terms of self-reported preparation, stu...

    Authors: Rianne A. M. Bouwmeester, Renske A. M. de Kleijn and Harold V. M. van Rijen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:200
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  12. More and better interprofessional practice is predicated to be necessary to deliver good care to the patients of the future. However, universities struggle to create authentic learning activities that enable s...

    Authors: Christine Jorm, Gillian Nisbet, Chris Roberts, Christopher Gordon, Stacey Gentilcore and Timothy F. Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:199
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  13. Pediatric residents must become proficient with performing a lumbar puncture (LP) during training. Residents have traditionally acquired LP skills by observing the procedure performed by a more senior resident...

    Authors: Hugh J. McMillan, Hilary Writer, Katherine A. Moreau, Kaylee Eady, Erick Sell, Anna-Theresa Lobos, Jenny Grabowski and Asif Doja
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:198
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  14. Belongingness has been argued to be a prerequisite for students’ learning in the clinical setting but making students feel like they belong to the workplace is a challenge. From a sociocultural perspective, wo...

    Authors: Matilda Liljedahl, Erik Björck, Susanne Kalén, Sari Ponzer and Klara Bolander Laksov
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:197
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  15. Despite the recent widespread adoption of simulation in clinical education in physiotherapy, there is a lack of validated tools for assessment in this setting. The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) is...

    Authors: Belinda K. Judd, Justin N. Scanlan, Jennifer A. Alison, Donna Waters and Christopher J. Gordon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:196
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  16. Blended learning is a combination of online and face-to-face learning and is increasingly of interest for use in undergraduate medical education. It has been used to teach clinical post-graduate students pharm...

    Authors: Caroline E. Morton, Sohag N. Saleh, Susan F. Smith, Ashish Hemani, Akram Ameen, Taylor D. Bennie and Maria Toro-Troconis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:195
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  17. Research from outside the medical field shows that leadership behaviours influence job satisfaction. Whether the same is true for the medical training setting needs to be explored. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Martha A. van der Wal, Johanna Schönrock-Adema, Fedde Scheele, Nienke R. Schripsema, A. Debbie C. Jaarsma and Janke Cohen-Schotanus
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:194
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  18. The World Health Organization calls for stronger cross-cultural emphasis in medical training. Bioethics education can build such competencies as it involves the conscious exploration and application of values ...

    Authors: Rebecca A. Greenberg, Celine Kim, Helen Stolte, Jonathan Hellmann, Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Rahim Valani and Dennis Scolnik
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:193
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  19. The validity of high-stakes decisions derived from assessment results is of primary concern to candidates and certifying institutions in the health professions. In the field of orthopaedic manual physical ther...

    Authors: Euson Yeung, Kulamakan Kulasagarem, Nicole Woods, Adam Dubrowski, Brian Hodges and Heather Carnahan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:192
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  20. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is now a standard assessment format and while examiner training is seen as essential to assure quality, there appear to be no widely accepted measures of ex...

    Authors: Aidan Byrne, Tereza Soskova, Jayne Dawkins and Lee Coombes
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:191
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  21. Previous studies have shown medical students in Germany to have little interest in research while at the same time there is a lack of physician scientists. This study’s aim is to investigate factors influencin...

    Authors: Mona Pfeiffer, Martin R. Fischer and Daniel Bauer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:190
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  22. We studied the scientific yield of the medical PhD program at all Danish Universities.

    Authors: Emil L. Fosbøl, Philip L. Fosbøl, Sofie Rerup, Lauge Østergaard, Mohammed H. Ahmed, Jawad Butt, Julie Davidsen, Nirusiya Shanmuganathan, Simon Juul and Christian Lewinter
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:189
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  23. Elearning is ubiquitous in healthcare professions education. Its equivalence to ‘traditional’ educational delivery methods is well established. There is a research imperative to clarify when and how to use elearn...

    Authors: Helen J. Reid, Clare Thomson and Kieran J. McGlade
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:188
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  24. Medical student selection and assessment share an underlying high stakes context with the need for valid and reliable tools. This study examined the predictive validity of three tools commonly used in Australi...

    Authors: Ruth M. Sladek, Malcolm J. Bond, Linda K. Frost and Kirsty N. Prior
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:187
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  25. The stress associated with the physician’s work is generally acknowledged and is related to well-being and life satisfaction. The presented study was designed to extract the role of coping strategies in identi...

    Authors: Małgorzata Tartas, Maciej Walkiewicz, Waldemar Budziński, Mikołaj Majkowicz, Krzysztof Wójcikiewicz and Agata Zdun-Ryżewska
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:186
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  26. The majority of schools in the Asia-Pacific region have adopted medical curricula based on western pedagogy. However to date there has been minimal exploration of the influence of the culture of learning on th...

    Authors: Ardi Findyartini, Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Geoff McColl and Neville Chiavaroli
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:185
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  27. Lectures continue to be an efficient and standardised way to deliver information to large groups of students. It has been well documented that students prefer interactive lectures, based on active learning pri...

    Authors: Ciara Luscombe and Julia Montgomery
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:184
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  29. Burnout is a major issue among medical students. Its general characteristics are loss of interest in study and lack of motivation. A study of the phenomenon must extend beyond the university environment and pe...

    Authors: Zsuzsa Győrffy, Emma Birkás and Imola Sándor
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:182
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  30. Students’ epistemic beliefs may vary in different domains; therefore, it may be beneficial for medical educators to better understand medical students’ epistemic beliefs regarding medicine. Understanding how m...

    Authors: Yen-Lin Chiu, Jyh-Chong Liang, Cheng-Yen Hou and Chin-Chung Tsai
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:181
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  31. Health professional education programs attract students from around the world and clinical supervisors frequently report that international students find learning in clinical placement contexts particularly ch...

    Authors: Stacie Attrill, Michelle Lincoln and Sue McAllister
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:180
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  32. Healthcare is generally provided by various health professionals acting together. Unfortunately, poor communication and collaboration within such healthcare teams often prevent its members from actively engagi...

    Authors: Endang Lestari, Renée E. Stalmeijer, Doni Widyandana and Albert Scherpbier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:179
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  34. Junior doctors do not feel well prepared when they start into postgraduate training. High self-efficacy however is linked to better clinical performance and may thus improve patient care. What factors affect s...

    Authors: Fabian Stroben, Therese Schröder, Katja A. Dannenberg, Anke Thomas, Aristomenis Exadaktylos and Wolf E. Hautz
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:177
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  35. Medical student clinical confidence and positive attitudes to patient centredness are important outcomes of medical education. The clinical placement setting is regarded as a critical support to these outcomes...

    Authors: Ruth McNair, Leonie Griffiths, Katharine Reid and Hannah Sloan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:176
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  36. Resident duty hours have recently been under criticism, with concerns for resident and patient well-being. Historically, call shifts have been long, and some residency training programs have now restricted shi...

    Authors: Andrew Moeller, Jordan Webber and Ian Epstein
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:175
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  37. The medical ward round is a central but complex activity that is of relevance from the first day of work. However, difficulties for young doctors have been reported. Instruction of ward round competence in med...

    Authors: Teresa Wölfel, Esther Beltermann, Christian Lottspeich, Elisa Vietz, Martin R. Fischer and Ralf Schmidmaier
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:174
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  38. Health provider racial/ethnic bias and its relationship to clinical decision-making is an emerging area of research focus in understanding and addressing ethnic health inequities. Examining potential racial/et...

    Authors: Ricci Harris, Donna Cormack, Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, James Stanley and Cameron Lacey
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:173
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  39. Patient safety (PS) is influenced by a set of factors on various levels of the healthcare system. Therefore, a systems-level approach and systems thinking is required to understand and improve PS. The use of e...

    Authors: Rainer Gaupp, Mirjam Körner and Götz Fabry
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:172
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  40. Quality improvement is increasingly becoming an essential aspect of the medical curriculum, with the intention of improving the health care system to provide better health care. The aim of this study was to ex...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Bergh, Martin Bac, Jannie Hugo and John Sandars
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:171
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  42. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate advanced cancer patients’ perspectives on the importance, feasibility, teaching methods, and issues associated with training healthcare providers in com...

    Authors: Shane Sinclair, Mia-Bernadine Torres, Shelley Raffin-Bouchal, Thomas F. Hack, Susan McClement, Neil A. Hagen and Harvey M. Chochinov
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:169
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  43. E-learning is driving major shifts in medical education. Prioritizing learning theories and quality models improves the success of e-learning programs. Although many e-learning quality standards are available,...

    Authors: R. A. De Leeuw, M. Westerman, E. Nelson, J. C. F. Ket and F. Scheele
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:168
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  44. Students are largely providing feedback to one another when instructor facilitates peer feedback rather than teaching in group training. The number of students in a group affect the learning of students in the...

    Authors: Youngsuk Cho, Sangmo Je, Yoo Sang Yoon, Hye Rin Roh, Chulho Chang, Hyunggoo Kang and Taeho Lim
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:167
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  45. The influence, legitimacy and application of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in the world is growing as a tool that integrates, the best available evidence to decision making in patient care. Our goal was to ide...

    Authors: Karen A. Aguirre-Raya, María F. Castilla-Peón, Leticia A. Barajas-Nava, Violeta Torres-Rodríguez, Onofre Muñoz-Hernández and Juan Garduño-Espinosa
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:166
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  46. The transition from student to medical doctor is challenging and stressful to many junior doctors. To practice with confidence and professionalism the junior doctors have to develop a strong professional ident...

    Authors: Lydia de Lasson, Eva Just, Nikolaj Stegeager and Bente Malling
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:165
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  48. Cognitive behavioural (CB) approaches are effective in the management of non-specific low back pain (LBP). We developed the CB Back Skills Training programme (BeST) and previously provided evidence of clinical...

    Authors: Helen Richmond, Amanda M. Hall, Zara Hansen, Esther Williamson, David Davies and Sarah E. Lamb
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:163
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  49. International Medical Graduates (IMGs) are known to perform less well in many postgraduate medical examinations when compared to their UK trained counterparts. This “differential attainment” is observed in bot...

    Authors: Anju Verma, Ann Griffin, Jane Dacre and Andrew Elder
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2016 16:162
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