Bartlett, Janet Fowler, Ken
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Medical students report significant levels of distress, and are reluctant to seek help despite health care needs, often citing factors associated with the medical school environment beyond training, generally termed the 'hidden curriculum'. The primary objectives of the current study were to establish the level of psychological distress in a sample...
Arora, Roochi Mukherjee, Som D
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Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
The hidden curriculum is the set of implicit influences which occur within health care organizations. The hidden curriculum has a tremendous impact on medical trainees and practicing physicians alike due to its influence in the domains of policy development, evaluation, resource allocation and institutional slang. We explore and reflect on the vari...
Sarikhani, Yaser Shojaei, Payam Rafiee, Mohammad Delavari, Sajad
Published in
BMC Medical Education
BackgroundHidden curriculum (HC) is considered as unintended learning experiences in medical education (ME). This may include values, norms, beliefs, skills, and knowledge which could potentially influence learning outcomes. HC has key components that must be identified and considered properly by individuals and organizations involved in ME.Objecti...
Yazdani, Shahram Andarvazh, Mohammad Reza Afshar, Leila
Published in
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
The hidden curriculum is considered to be between the designed and experienced curricula. One of the challenges that medical educators face is to understand what students learn in real clinical settings. The aim of the present study was to answer this question: What is hidden in hidden medical curriculum? This study was a qualitative content analys...
Braschi, Emélie Stacey, Dawn Légaré, France Grad, Roland Archibald, Douglas
Published in
Perspectives on Medical Education
Introduction Medical education should portray evidence-based medicine (EBM) and shared decision making (SDM) as central to patient care. However, misconceptions regarding EBM and SDM are common in clinical practice, and these biases might unintentionally be transmitted to medical trainees through a hidden curriculum. The current study explores how ...
Torralba, Karina D. Jose, Donna Byrne, John
Published in
Clinical Rheumatology
Psychological safety is a feeling that individuals are comfortable expressing and being themselves, as well as comfortable sharing concerns and mistakes without fear of embarrassment, shame, ridicule, or retribution. It has long been recognized as part of successful patient safety and quality improvement processes. However, in the realm of medical ...
Kaldjian, Lauris C. Shinkunas, Laura A. Reisinger, Heather Schacht Polacco, Marc A. Perencevich, Eli N.
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
BackgroundSickness presenteeism among healthcare professionals can compromise patient safety. To better understand what motivates this phenomenon, especially among trainees, the authors investigated attitudes of medical students, resident physicians, and faculty physicians about working when sick with what might be an infectious condition.MethodsIn...
Leedham-Green, Kathleen E. Knight, Alec Iedema, Rick
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundProfessional identities are influenced by experiences in the clinical workplace including socialisation processes that may be hidden from academic faculty and potentially divergent from formal curricula. With the current educational emphasis on complexity, preparedness for practice, patient safety and team-working it is necessary to evalu...
Yazdani, Shahram Momeni, Sedigheh Afshar, Leila Abdolmaleki, Muhamadreza
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Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism
Introduction: Hidden curriculum plays a main role in professional learning, formation of professional identity, socialization, moral development and learning values, attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge in learners, so it needs to be managed. Although the majority of the theorists believe in the existence of a hidden curriculum and its greater effect ...
Phillips, Susan P Webber, Jenna Imbeau, Stephan Quaife, Tanis Hagan, Deanna Maar, Marion Abourbih, Jacques
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EClinicalMedicine
Despite explicit policies and reporting mechanisms in academia designed to prevent harassment and ensure respectful environments, sexual harassment persists. We report on a national survey of Canadian medical students' experiences of sexual harassment perpetrated by faculty, patients and peers, their responses to harassment, and their suggestions f...
