Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan J. Cohen et al.
Sue Roff, Sean McAleer, Ronald M. Harden, Mona Faisal Al-Qahtani et al.
The General Medical Council has initiated major innovations in the undergraduate medical curriculum. These requirements are forcing a rapid rate of change in medical schools throughout the UK which parallels many developments in North America. There have also been several international and national ...
Eve Purdy, Brent Thoma, Joseph Bednarczyk, David Migneault et al.
UNLABELLED: Introduction Online educational resources (OERs) are increasingly available for emergency medicine (EM) education. This study describes and compares the use of free OERs by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residents and program directors (PDs) and investi...
Peter Cantillon, Tim Dornan, Willem de Grave
PURPOSE: Most clinical teachers have not been trained to teach, and faculty development for clinical teachers is undermined by poor attendance, inadequate knowledge transfer, and unsustainability. A crucial question for faculty developers to consider is how clinicians become teachers "on the job." S...
Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan Cohen et al.
Asma Mostafa, Rozina Hoque, Mohammad Mostafa, Md. Mashud Rana et al.
Empathy is considered to be associated with better patient compliance, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes. The aim of the study is to measure and examine empathy among a sample of undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. It was a cross-sectional study and all the medical students of first thro...
Safaa M. Hanafy, Mohammad I. Jumaa, Mostafa A. Arafa
OBJECTIVES: To explore the attitude and perception of undergraduate medical students and their staff towards the educational methods (conventional versus online) and to assess their performance accordingly. METHODS: It was a comparative cross sectional study, conducted at the Faculty of Medicine, Al...
Laura Marcela Mass-Hernández, Laura Marcela Acevedo-Aguilar, Ivan David Lozada‐Martínez, Lucas Santiago Osorio-Agudelo et al.
Scientific research plays a fundamental role in current medical practice and it is of great importance that medical students relate to it from the beginning of their professional career, since it generates multiple benefits that will be reflected during the course of their careers as university stud...
Jonathan Sherbino, Jason R. Frank, Leslie Flynn, Linda Snell
Md. Khirul Islam, A.W.M. Shamsul Islam, M. M. H. Mondal, Sukanta Basak et al.
Expanding resident evaluation procedures to include parents and nurses does enhance information that is gathered on resident communication skills and professionalism and may help to target specific behaviors for improvement. Additional research is needed to determine whether receiving feedback on pa...
Adelina Alcorta-Garza, Montserrat San-Martín, Roberto C. Delgado Bolton, Jorge Soler-González et al.
CONTEXT: Medical educators agree that empathy is essential for physicians' professionalism. The Health Professional Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-HP) was developed in response to a need for a psychometrically sound instrument to measure empathy in the context of patient care. Althou...
Laura April McEwen, Jane Griffiths, Karen Schultz
The use of portfolios in postgraduate medical residency education to support competency development is increasing; however, the processes by which these assessment systems are designed, implemented, and maintained are emergent. The authors describe the needs assessment, development, implementation, ...
Catherine Craig, Niyati Kasana, Amita V. Modi
strategies, and (d) regular follow-up 30-minute meetings between academic coaches and students are scheduled for accountability, reflection and feedback. Specifically, the academic coaching component of the programme emphasises: (a) self-reflection; (b) specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and...
Nicolette Caccia, Amy Nakajima, Nancy Kent
Competency-based medical education (CBME) is a new educational paradigm that will enable the medical education community to meet societal, patient, and learner needs of the 21st century. CBME offers a renewed commitment to both clinical and educational outcomes, a new focus on assessment and develop...
Abu Sadat Mohammad Nurunnabi, Riffat Rahim, Dilara Alo, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
In clinical education, experiential learning can be an important component of the instructional process. We know that in medical college hospitals, learning that takes place at patient’s bed side or in wards is totally different from learning that takes place in the classroom. Each patient encounter...