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...
Hege, Inga Kiesewetter, Isabel Adler, Martin
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundThe ability to compose a concise summary statement about a patient is a good indicator for the clinical reasoning abilities of healthcare students. To assess such summary statements manually a rubric based on five categories - use of semantic qualifiers, narrowing, transformation, accuracy, and global rating has been published. Our aim wa...
Azizi, Seyyed Mohsen Roozbahani, Nasrin Khatony, Alireza
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundBlended learning is a new approach to improving the quality of medical education. Acceptance of blended learning plays an important role in its effective implementation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate and determine the factors that might affect students’ intention to use blended learning.MethodsIn this cross-secti...
Pahwa, Amit K. Eaton, Kevin Apfel, Ariella Bertram, Amanda Ridell, Rebecca Cayea, Danelle
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BackgroundWith almost 20% unnecessary spending on healthcare, there has been increasing interest in high value care defined as the best care for the patient, with the optimal result for the circumstances, delivered at the right price. The American Association of Medical Colleges recommend that medical students are proficient in concepts of cost-eff...
Tanzi, S. De Panfilis, L. Costantini, M. Artioli, G. Alquati, S. Di Leo, S.
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BackgroundThere is widespread agreement about the importance of communication skills training (CST) for healthcare professionals caring for cancer patients. Communication can be effectively learned and improved through specific CST. Existing CSTs have some limitations with regard to transferring the learning to the workplace. The aim of the study i...
Donkin, Rebecca Broome, Kieran Swanepoel, Libby
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BackgroundBenchmarking across and within universities is a common tool to evaluate performance of a program and maintain accreditation requirements. While teaching remains a primary responsibility of many academics, academic research performance is a major contributor towards career advancement and standards in the medical laboratory science profes...
Baillargeon, Jean-Patrice St-Cyr-Tribble, Denise Xhignesse, Marianne Brown, Christine Carpentier, André C. Fortin, Martin Grant, Andrew Simoneau-Roy, Judith Langlois, Marie-France
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundPrimary care providers’ (PCPs) attitude toward obesity is often negative, and their confidence level for helping patients manage their weight is low. Continuing professional development (CPD) on the subject of obesity is often based on a single activity using a traditional passive approach such as lectures known to have little effect on p...
Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain Waller, Thomas A. Bonacci, Robert P. Nawaz, Anem J. Keith, Joshua J. Agarwal, Anjali Merfeld, John Nordin, Terri Winscott, Mary Michelle Belda, Thomas E.
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BackgroundInterpersonal and Communication Skills (ICS) and Professionalism milestones are challenging to evaluate during medical training. Paucity in proficiency, direction and validity evidence of assessment tools of these milestones warrants further research. We validated the reliability of the previously-piloted Instrument for Communication skil...
Guilding, Clare Hardisty, Jessica Randles, Elsa Statham, Louise Green, Alan Bhudia, Roshni Thandi, Charan Singh Teodorczuk, Andrew Scott, Lesley Matthan, Joanna
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundArguably, Medical School curricula are deficient in learning opportunities related to the safe and effective use of medicines, in particular antimicrobials. Infection management is complex and multidisciplinary, and learning opportunities should reflect these principles. Aligned to the complexity of the subject matter, simulation and inte...
Kazzaz, Yasser M. Da’ar, Omar B.
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BackgroundAs increasing the number of organ donations presents a global challenge, Saudi Arabia is no different. Intensivists can play a major role in maximizing the organ donation process and minimize the challenges. The purpose of this study was to investigate Saudi pediatric intensivists’ comfort and importance levels of organ donation competenc...
