The cost of plastic surgery conferences for medical students.
Published in Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Internet Technology to Promote Academic Writing among Students and Trainees.
Published in JMA journal
Additive Manufacturing for Medical Education
A growing body of evidence is suggesting that anatomical knowledge, the keystone of many medical specialties, is suffering among new graduates. While a host of reasons are provided, one common thread that many point to is the decline of cadaver dissections in the classroom. Many virtual audio-visual tools are used to address this gap, yet evidence ...
A Key West “jack-of-all-trades”: The Strange Life, and Peculiar Death, of Dr. Daniel W. Whitehurst
Published in British Journal of American Legal Studies
In 1845, lawyer-turned-physician Daniel W. Whitehurst, originally from Virginia, moved to Key West. By the time of his death in 1872, Whitehurst had served as the city's mayor, state senator, and captain of its rebel guard. Nevertheless, Whitehurst now is an unknown figure. Buried with him is his cause of death, which may have been suicide.
Skills assessment after a grape-based microsurgical course for ophthalmology residents: randomised controlled trial.
...Published in The British journal of ophthalmology
To introduce and assess a course using grapes as training models for ophthalmology residents to acquire basic microsurgical skills. Ophthalmology residents who were novices at microsurgery were included. Participants were randomised into a 1:1 ratio to a 4-hour training programme based on fruit models (group A) or virtual reality (VR) modulator and...
SkillsLab+ - Digitization of the Otoscopy Station through State of the Art Methods of Augmented Reality
Published in Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
The paper discusses SkillsLab+, a medical augmented reality application developed to digitize the practical course SkillsLab. This application provides medical students with a digital tool to learn and apply practical hand movements, initial treatment, and diagnostic techniques. The otoscopy station, one of the stations in SkillsLab+, allows studen...
Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Deaf-Hearing Interpreter Teams: Impact of Interpreting Approaches
This study explores the perceptions and preferences of healthcare providers who work with Deaf Interpreter-Hearing Interpreter (DI-HI) teams. Healthcare providers depend on interpreters' ability to bridge the communication and cultural gap to assess and treat patients accurately. Although there have been studies on healthcare providers’ perceptions...
Translating 'dementia friends' programme to undergraduate medical and nursing practice: a qualitative exploration.
Published in BMC medical education
Dementia awareness is a key priority of medical and nursing pre-registration education. The 'dementia friends' programme is an internationally recognised and accredited dementia awareness workshop that is led by a trained facilitator. While this programme has been associated with positive outcomes, few studies have examined how medical and nursing ...
Advanced fellowship training for cardiology fellows in acute care cardiology.
Published in Cardiology in the young
Hospitalised children have become more medically complex and increasingly require specialised teams and units properly equipped to care for them. Within paediatric cardiology, this trend, which is well demonstrated by the expansion of cardiology-specific ICUs, has more recently led to the development of acute care cardiology units to deliver team-b...
Examining the nexus between medical education and complexity: a systematic review to inform practice and research.
Published in BMC medical education
Medical education is a multifarious endeavour integrating a range of pedagogies and philosophies. Complexity as a science or theory ('complexity') signals a move away from a reductionist paradigm to one which appreciates that interactions in multi-component systems, such as healthcare systems, can result in adaptive and emergent outcomes. This exam...
