Safa, Farhana Anjum, Afifa Hossain, Sahadat Trisa, Tonima Islam Alam, Syeda Fatema Abdur Rafi, Md Podder, Vivek Koly, Kamrun Nahar Azad, Dewan Tasnia Ahmad, Wasi Uddin
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Children and youth services review
The most recent global pandemic of COVID-19 has been creating multidimensional damages, including a detrimental impact on the mental health status of individuals. Medical students, a vulnerable cross-section of the population, may have perceived a myriad of psychological stressors during this crisis in the background of their prevailing stressful a...
Hashemzaei, Mahmoud Afshari, Mahdi Koohkan, Zahra Bazi, Ali Rezaee, Ramin Tabrizian, Kaveh
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundSelf-medication is defined as using medicinal products to treat the disorders or symptoms diagnosed by oneself. Although informed self-medication is one of the ways to reduce health care costs, inappropriate self-treatment can pose various risks including drug side effects, recurrence of symptoms, drug resistance, etc. The purpose of this...
Arthur, Sophie Jamieson, Abigail Cross, Harry Nambiar, Kate Llewellyn, Carrie D.
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundLesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients have an increased incidence of a range of health problems, and face many barriers to accessing healthcare. Our research aimed to explore the awareness of health issues and attitudes of medical students towards LGBT patients’ health including barriers to health services, their attitude...
Le Roux, Enora Mari Muro, Marta Mognon, Kore Saïd, Mélèa Caillavet, Viviane Matheron, Sophie Ledoux, Séverine Decq, Philippe Vorspan, Florence Le Strat, Yann
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundA public health student service was set up by the French government in 2018 with the aim of increasing awareness of primary health promotion among the 47,000 students of medicine and other health professions. It is an annual program involving community-based actions on nutrition, physical activity, addiction or sexuality. Our objective wa...
Kaikaew, Kasiphak Vivatvakin, Sarocha Chayanupatkul, Maneerat Kositanurit, Weerapat Thanprasertsuk, Sekh Kulaputana, Onanong
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundPre-clerkship medical curriculums consist of a series of organ system-based courses and lectures but often lack an integration between organ systems. Such integration could be beneficial for clerkship years and students’ future career. Hence, we aimed to share our process of organising an integrative teaching approach in a large class of ...
Al Gahtani, Haifa Mohammed Saleh Jahrami, Haitham Ali Silverman, Henry J.
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundTo enhance the development of a curriculum in professionalism for medical students, the aim of this research was to evaluate medical students’ responses regarding professionalism teaching and behaviors in their clinical experience at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU).MethodsA retrospective cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study involv...
Oró, Pere Esquerda, Montse Mas, Blanca Viñas, Joan Yuguero, Oriol Pifarré, Josep
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Mindfulness
Objectives Medical students display a high prevalence of psychopathological symptomatology, stress and burnout, which may continue in their time as resident and fully qualified doctors. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the effects of a mindfulness-based programme on these variables in an experimental group of medical students who un...
Smith, Elana Boscak, Alexis
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Emergency Radiology
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancelation of traditional on-site clinical rotations for medical students across the country. Radiology educators have had to rapidly adapt to a new, virtual educational landscape. We describe our experience restructuring a Trauma and Emergency Radiology Elective to an online format and present survey ...
Lim, Guan Hui Tricia Sibanda, Zeluleko Erhabor, Joshua Bandyopadhyay, Soham
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Perspectives on Medical Education
Major racial disparities continue to exist in our healthcare education, from the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities when teaching about clinical signs to health management in primary and secondary care. A multi-centre group of students discuss what needs to change in medical education to cultivate physicians who are better prepared to care fo...
Cui, Liyuan Zhu, Yaxin Qu, Jinglou Tie, Liming Wang, Ziqi Qu, Bo
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundCritical thinking disposition helps medical students and professionals overcome the effects of personal values and beliefs when exercising clinical judgment. The lack of effective instruments to measure critical thinking disposition in medical students has become an obstacle for training and evaluating students in undergraduate programs i...
