Lautrette, Alexandre Boyer, Alexandre Gruson, Didier Argaud, Laurent Schwebel, Carole Tardy, Bernard Vignon, Philippe Megarbane, Bruno Schoeffler, Pierre Chabrot, Pascal
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundLectures with slide presentations are widely used to teach evidence-based medicine to large groups. Take-home messages (THMs) are poorly identified and recollected by students. We investigated whether an instruction to list THMs in written form on slides would improve the retention thereof by residents, and the residents’ level of knowled...
Loda, Teresa Erschens, Rebecca Nikendei, Christoph Giel, Katrin Junne, Florian Zipfel, Stephan Herrmann-Werner, Anne
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BackgroundPeer-assisted learning is effective due to cognitive and social congruence. Cognitive congruence is created by sharing a similar knowledge base between students and student tutors. Social congruence is defined as having similar social roles. A questionnaire of these concepts was newly constructed, and this study explored the factor analys...
Chen, Shih-Hong Chen, Shiou-Sheng Lai, Chao-Lun Su, Fang-Ying Tzeng, I-Shiang Chen, Li-Kuei
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BackgroundResidency training includes positive and negative aspects. Well-trained doctors must be educated, but the process may bring additional risks to patients. Anesthesiologists’ performance when conducting neuraxial anesthesia is related to their experience. We hypothesized that a modified neuraxial anesthesia method would improve both residen...
Wang, Jun Guo, Jie Wang, Yubin Yan, Dan Liu, Juan Zhang, Yinghong Hu, Xianmin
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BackgroundDuring interprofessional clinical practice, compared to understanding of one’s own professional role and function, it might be more difficult to clarify the roles and contributions of the other health-care team members because of the inter-professional barrier. In order to provide students the opportunity for real experience with other pr...
Alwhaibi, Monira Alhindi, Ghaida Alshamrani, Majd Essa, Maryam Bin A. Al Aloola, Noha Alhawassi, Tariq M.
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BackgroundMedication safety and pharmacovigilance (PV) remains as an important discipline worldwide. However, there is a significant lack of knowledge of PV and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among students in the healthcare field. Thus, this study is aimed to measure knowledge, attitude, and perceptions and compares it between healthcare st...
Straub, Christine Heinzmann, Andrea Krueger, Marcus Bode, Sebastian F. N.
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BackgroundInterprofessional education (IPE) is deemed essential for interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in healthcare systems. IPC has positive effects for both patients and healthcare professionals. Especially in pediatrics, IPC is paramount for adequate care of patients and their families though there is a lack of data on the attitudes towards ...
Pitre, Tyler Thomas, Alexander Evans, Kyle Jones, Aaron Mountjoy, Margo Costa, Andrew P.
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BackgroundThe socioeconomic status of applicants to Canadian medical schools has been understudied in the past two decades. Institutional efforts have been made to address the lack of socioeconomic diversity across Canada during this time. We investigated the income characteristics of medical school applicants, as well as the relationship between a...
Brooks, Joanna Veazey Istas, Kathryn Barth, Bradley E.
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BackgroundDespite the growth of coaching in medical education, many questions remain about the process of becoming a coach for medical students. We sought to understand the process through which faculty acclimated to this new role, and what benefits and challenges they experienced.MethodsA multi-phase qualitative focus group study was conducted wit...
Doggrell, Sheila Anne
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BackgroundThe effect of availability of lecture recordings on academic outcomes is not clear and it is not known whether these recordings change the association between lecture attendance and academic outcomes. Few surveys of lecture attendance or lecture recordings use by students are linked to academic outcomes. The aims were (i) to determine any...
Choi, Byung Jegatheeswaran, Lavandan Minocha, Amal Alhilani, Michel Nakhoul, Maria Mutengesa, Ernest
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BackgroundThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic has resulted in unprecedented public health measures. This has impacted the UK education sector with many universities halting campus-based teaching and examinations. The aim of this study is to identify the impact of COVID-19 on final year medical students’ examinations and placements in...
