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  1. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies (CC) in general medicine-based primary care are essential for junior medical trainees. In this country, a regular faculty develop...

    Authors: Fa-Yauh Lee, Ying-Ying Yang, Chia-Chang Huang, Ling-Ju Huang, Ching-Chih Chang, Jen-Feng Liang, Shiau-Shian Huang, Wei-Shin Lee, Dai-Yin Lu, Chiao-Lin Chuang, Ling-Yu Yang, Hui-Chun Huang, Boaz Shulruf, Chen-Huan Chen and Shou-Yen Kao
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:155
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. There is a global trend towards providing training for health professions students outside of tertiary academic complexes. In many countries, this shift places pressure on available sites and the resources at ...

    Authors: Susan C. Van Schalkwyk, Ian D. Couper, Julia Blitz and Marietjie R. De Villiers
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:154
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  3. Empathy is paramount in the doctor-patient relationship being a comprehensive and multidimensional concept. Self-ratings of empathy change across the years of medical education only when the Jefferson Scale of...

    Authors: Luiz Miguel Santiago, Inês Rosendo, Mona-Lisa Coutinho, Katia Sophie Maurício, Isabel Neto and José Augusto Simões
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:153
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  4. South African medical schools use the results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination for selecting students. Five of the nine medical schools also use the National Benchmark Test (NBT). The Unive...

    Authors: Sfiso Emmanuel Mabizela and Ann Zeta George
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:152
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  5. While the importance of medical students’ demographic characteristics in influencing the scope and location of their future practice is recognized, these data are not systematically collected in Canada. This s...

    Authors: Rishad Khan, Tavis Apramian, Joel Hosung Kang, Jeffrey Gustafson and Shannon Sibbald
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:151
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The last two decades have seen revolutionary developments in both radiotherapy technology and postgraduate medical training. Trainees are expected to attain competencies using a mix of experiential learning, f...

    Authors: Gerard M. Walls, Gerard G. Hanna and James J. McAleer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:150
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  7. As good communication skills are crucial for doctor-patient interactions, it is recommended to incorporate them in medical school programs from the very beginning. On this basis medical schools in Germany intr...

    Authors: Joachim Graf, Teresa Loda, Stephan Zipfel, Annette Wosnik, Daniela Mohr and Anne Herrmann-Werner
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Older persons consume disproportionately more healthcare resources than younger persons. Tri-Generational HomeCare (TriGen), a service-learning program, aims to reduce hospital admission rates amongst older pa...

    Authors: Kennedy Yao Yi Ng, Gloria Yao Chi Leung, Angeline Jie-Yin Tey, Jia Quan Chaung, Si Min Lee, Amrish Soundararajan, Ka Shing Yow, Nerice Heng Wen Ngiam, Tang Ching Lau, Sweet Fun Wong, Chek Hooi Wong and Gerald Choon-Huat Koh
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:148
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  9. The reliability of clinical assessments is known to vary considerably with inter-rater reliability a key contributor. Many of the mechanisms that contribute to inter-rater reliability however remain largely un...

    Authors: Aileen Faherty, Tim Counihan, Thomas Kropmans and Yvonne Finn
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:147
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  10. There are few studies that directly compared different interventions to improve medical students’ clinical reasoning for dermatologic conditions.

    Authors: Sungjun Choi, Sohee Oh, Dong Hun Lee and Hyun-Sun Yoon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:146
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  11. Studies investigating the longitudinal predictive value of burnout on both effort-reward imbalance (within the working place) and work-family conflict (between work and private life) in residents are lacking. ...

    Authors: Rüya Kocalevent, Hans Pinnschmidt, Susan Selch, Sarah Nehls, Juliane Meyer, Sigrid Boczor, Martin Scherer and Hendrik van den Bussche
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:145
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  12. Cultural differences might challenge the acceptance of the implementation of assessment formats that are developed in other countries. Acceptance of assessment formats is essential for its effectiveness; there...

    Authors: Yoyo Suhoyo, Johanna Schönrock-Adema, Ova Emilia, Jan B. M. Kuks and Janke Cohen-Schotanus
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:144
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  13. The characteristics of nursing doctoral programs and the doctoral students’ experience have not been thoroughly investigated. Hence, this study aimed to describe the characteristics of nursing doctoral program...

    Authors: Alex Molassiotis, Tao Wang, Huong Thi Xuan Hoang, Jing-Yu Tan, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Karis F. Cheng, Josefina A. Tuazon, Wipada Kunaviktikul and Lorna K. P. Suen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:143
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  14. Despite the common practice of involving in-patients in the teaching of medical students little is known about the experience for patients. This study investigated inpatients' willingness, motivations and expe...

    Authors: Nathan G Rockey, Guilherme Piovezani Ramos, Susan Romanski, Dennis Bierle, Matthew Bartlett and Magnus Halland
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:142
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  16. The aim of the study was to confirm the validity and reliability of the Observation Scheme-12, a measurement tool for rating clinical communication skills.

    Authors: Else Dalsgaard Iversen, Maiken Overbeck Wolderslund, Poul-Erik Kofoed, Pål Gulbrandsen, Helle Poulsen, Søren Cold and Jette Ammentorp
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:140
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  17. To be able to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) when making decisions for individual patients, it is important to learn how to combine the best available evidence with the patient’s preferences and the ph...

    Authors: Lisanne S. Welink, Esther de Groot, Peter Pype, Kaatje Van Roy, Iris D. van den Wittenboer, Marie-Louise E. L. Bartelink and Roger A. M. J. Damoiseaux
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:139
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  19. Undergraduate teaching of General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) must ensure students acquire the necessary competencies and skills to perform an adequate GP/FM consultation with adequate annotations (the SO...

    Authors: Luiz Miguel Santiago, Inês Silva and José Augusto Simões
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:137
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  20. The purpose of this pilot study was to create a valid and reliable set of assessment questions for examining Evidence-based Dentistry (EbD) knowledge. For this reason, we adapted and validated for dental stude...

    Authors: Laura Imorde, Andreas Möltner, Maren Runschke, Tobias Weberschock, Stefan Rüttermann and Susanne Gerhardt-Szép
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:136
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  21. For patients with cancer, being well informed by their oncologist about treatment options and the implications thereof is highly relevant. Communication skills training (CST) programs have shown to be effectiv...

    Authors: Sebastiaan M. Stuij, Constance H. C. Drossaert, Nanon H. M. Labrie, Robert L. Hulsman, Marie José Kersten, Sandra van Dulmen and Ellen M. A. Smets
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:135
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  22. Direct observation of clinical task performance plays a pivotal role in competency-based medical education. Although formal guidelines require supervisors to engage in direct observations, research demonstrate...

    Authors: Laury P. J. W. M. de Jonge, Ilse Mesters, Marjan J. B. Govaerts, Angelique A. Timmerman, Jean W. M. Muris, Anneke W. M. Kramer and Cees P. M. van der Vleuten
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:134
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  24. Physicians have to deal with uncertainty on a daily basis, which requires high tolerance for ambiguity. When medical decisions have to be made in ambiguous situations, low levels of need for cognitive closure ...

    Authors: Julia Gärtner, Lisa Bußenius, Sarah Prediger, Daniela Vogel and Sigrid Harendza
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:132
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  26. Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are daunting environments for physiotherapy (PT) students performing clinical rotations. To prepare students for this environment, a newly developed, evidence-based e-learning modul...

    Authors: Mel E. Major, Stephan P. J. Ramaekers, Raoul H. H. Engelbert and Marike Van der Schaaf
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:130
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  27. Each year, more than 200 international dental graduates start U.S. specialty trainings to become specialists. It is unknown if their life satisfaction is associated with any dental career-related factor before...

    Authors: Martin M. Fu, Rebecca Y. Chen, Huan-Chen Kao, Chi-Hsien Wang, Hsun-Liang Chan, Earl Fu and Tony Szu-Hsien Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:129
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  28. Quality improvement (QI) is an essential component of modern clinical practice. Front-line professionals offer valuable perspectives on areas for improvement and are motivated to deliver change. In the UK, all...

    Authors: Elizabeth McGeorge, Charles Coughlan, Martha Fawcett and Robert Edward Klaber
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:128
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  29. Virtual reality (VR) is an innovation that permits the individual to discover and operate within three-dimensional (3D) environment to gain practical understanding. This research aimed to examine the general e...

    Authors: Jingjie Zhao, Xinliang Xu, Hualin Jiang and Yi Ding
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:127
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  30. While the Association of American Medical Colleges encourages medical schools to incorporate quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) into their curriculum, medical students continue to have limited QI/P...

    Authors: Kevin P. Shah, Shreya Goyal, Vignesh Ramachandran, Jaden R. Kohn, Jonathan A. Go, Zachary Wiley, Anoosha Moturu, Meera K. Namireddy, Anjali Kumar, Ryan C. Jacobs, Matthew Stampfl, Jesal R. Shah, Justin Fu, Weijie V. Lin, Brandon Ho, Grace Wey…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:126
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  31. Symptoms of depression and anxiety experienced by undergraduate medical students have become a prominent concern. Evidence about students’ depression and anxiety including prevalence, trajectory during medical...

    Authors: Pia Thiemann, James Brimicombe, John Benson and Thelma Quince
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:125
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  33. The aim was to investigate if individual self-practice of the ABCDE approach (Airways, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure) in an immersive and interactive virtual reality (VR) application gave non-in...

    Authors: Helen Berg and Aslak Steinsbekk
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:123
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  34. Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that the publication is missing a link to the data repository.

    Authors: Ieva Salmane-Kulikovska, Elita Poplavska, Signe Mezinska, Vita Dumpe, Helena Dauvarte, Lina Lazdina, Aleksandr Marchockij, Karolis Varzinskas and Barbara J. Mintzes
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:122
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  35. Research ethics is required for high-quality research that positively influences society. There is limited understanding of research ethics in Middle Eastern countries including Jordan. Here, we aim to investi...

    Authors: Nafez Abu Tarboush, Zaid Alkayed, Karem H. Alzoubi and Wael K. Al-Delaimy
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:121
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Aspects of the learning environment may be related to students` approaches to studying, but few studies have investigated these relationships in the context of occupational therapy education.

    Authors: Gry Mørk, Trine A. Magne, Tove Carstensen, Linda Stigen, Lene A. Åsli, Astrid Gramstad, Susanne G. Johnson and Tore Bonsaksen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:120
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  37. The diverse rural medical education initiatives that have been developed in Australia to address the medical workforce maldistribution have been less successful in many smaller and remote communities. This stu...

    Authors: Raquel Peel, Louise Young, Carole Reeve, Katerina Kanakis, Bunmi Malau-Aduli, Tarun Sen Gupta and Richard Hays
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:119
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  38. Although challenging to integrate within university curricula, evidence suggests that interprofessional education (IPE) positively impacts communication and teamwork skills in the workplace. The nature of Team...

    Authors: Annette Burgess, Eszter Kalman, Inam Haq, Andrew Leaver, Chris Roberts and Jane Bleasel
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:118
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  39. Previous research has not provided enough direction regarding effective content design of courses integrating the humanities and social sciences in medical and dental education. This study aims at exploring ho...

    Authors: Jihyun Lee, Jueyeun Lee and Il Young Jung
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:117
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  41. Neurophobia, a well-described fear of neurology, affects medical students worldwide and may be one of the factors contributing to a shortage of neurologists in the United States. Residents spend a considerable...

    Authors: Zafer Keser, Yvo A. Rodriguez, Jennifer Tremont, Peggy H. Hsieh, Louise D. McCullough, Stefano Sandrone and Erin F. Stimming
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:115
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  44. Bullying is an unexpressed part and parcel of medical education but it is largely unexplored in physiotherapy. This study assessed the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of bullying in physiotherapy e...

    Authors: Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Idowu Phebean Ogunseun, Francis Oluwafunso Fasuyi, Oluwafemi David Adegbemigun, Clara Toyin Fatoye, Opeyemi Ayodiipo Idowu, Olubusola Esther Johnson, Adesola Christiana Odole, Adaobi Margaret Okonji, Bashir Kaka and Francis Fatoye
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:112
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  45. Osler taught doctors to “have no teaching without a patient for a text, and the best teaching is that taught by the patient himself”. Bedside teaching (BST) facilitates clinical practice of skills, teaches emp...

    Authors: Michelle Carty, Nicola O’Riordan, Mary Ivers and Mary F. Higgins
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:111
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  46. The learning environment impacts many aspects of healthcare education, including student outcomes. Rather than being a single and fixed phenomenon, it is made up of multiple micro learning environments. The st...

    Authors: R. Isba, C. Rousseva, K. Woolf and L. Byrne-Davis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:110
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  47. The teaching of human anatomy is often based on practices of cadaver dissection and prosected specimens. However, exposure to human cadavers might be stressful and anxiety-inducing for students. The aim of thi...

    Authors: Carmen Romo-Barrientos, Juan José Criado-Álvarez, Jaime González-González, Isabel Ubeda-Bañon, Alicia Flores-Cuadrado, Daniel Saiz-Sánchez, Antonio Viñuela, Jose Luis Martin-Conty, Teresa Simón, Alino Martinez-Marcos and Alicia Mohedano-Moriano
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:109
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  48. Development of an entry-level physiotherapy curriculum in China currently follows the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) guidelines, however there is no standard, validated, assessment tool for ph...

    Authors: Jia Hu, Alice Y.M. Jones, Xuelian Zhou, Hua Zhai, Shirley P. C. Ngai, Ka-Chun Siu and Megan Dalton
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:108
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  49. Clinical reasoning is at the core of health professionals’ practice. A mapping of what constitutes clinical reasoning could support the teaching, development, and assessment of clinical reasoning across the he...

    Authors: Meredith E. Young, Aliki Thomas, Stuart Lubarsky, David Gordon, Larry D. Gruppen, Joseph Rencic, Tiffany Ballard, Eric Holmboe, Ana Da Silva, Temple Ratcliffe, Lambert Schuwirth, Valérie Dory and Steven J. Durning
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2020 20:107
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