Stenov, Vibeke Wind, Gitte Skinner, Timothy Reventlow, Susanne Hempler, Nana Folmann
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BackgroundHealthcare professionals’ person-centered communication skills are pivotal for successful group-based diabetes education. However, healthcare professionals are often insufficiently equipped to facilitate person-centeredness and many have never received post-graduate training. Currently, assessing professionals’ skills in conducting group-...
Martínez, Felipe Tobar, Catalina Taramasco, Carla
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Mak-van der Vossen, Marianne van Mook, Walther van der Burgt, Stéphanie Kors, Joyce Ket, Johannes C.F. Croiset, Gerda Kusurkar, Rashmi
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BackgroundDeveloping professionalism is a core task in medical education. Unfortunately, it has remained difficult for educators to identify medical students’ unprofessionalism, because, among other reasons, there are no commonly adopted descriptors that can be used to document students’ unprofessional behaviour. This study aimed to generate an ove...
Schubach, Fabian Goos, Matthias Fabry, Götz Vach, Werner Boeker, Martin
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BackgroundThe objective of this study is to compare two different instructional methods in the curricular use of computerized virtual patients in undergraduate medical education. We aim to investigate whether using many short and focused cases – the key feature principle – is more effective for the learning of clinical reasoning skills than using f...
Wilkes, Michael S. Day, Frank C. Fancher, Tonya L. McDermott, Haley Lehman, Erik Bell, Robert A. Green, Michael J.
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BackgroundScreening and counseling for genetic conditions is an increasingly important part of primary care practice, particularly given the paucity of genetic counselors in the United States. However, primary care physicians (PCPs) often have an inadequate understanding of evidence-based screening; communication approaches that encourage shared de...
Chang, Xing Zhou, Xin Luo, Linzhi Yang, Chengjia Pan, Hui Zhang, Shuyang
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BackgroundThis study aimed to identify hotspots in research on clinical competence measurements from 2012 to 2016.MethodsThe authors retrieved literature published between 2012 and 2016 from PubMed using selected medical subject headings (MeSH) terms. They used BibExcel software to generate high-frequency MeSH terms and identified hotspots by co-wo...
Silverwood, V. Chew-Graham, C.A. Raybould, I. Thomas, B. Peters, S.
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BackgroundFibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a long-term condition that affects between 1 and 5% of the general population and lies within the spectrum of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). FMS can be difficult to diagnose and is usually done so as a diagnosis of exclusion. There is continuing debate regarding its legitimacy excluding other causes o...
King, Eimear Steenson, Claire Shannon, Ciaran Mulholland, Ciaran
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BackgroundIt is known that medical students suffer from high rates of mental health difficulties. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the need to improve support and treatment services for those in difficulty. In order to meet these needs it is important to clarify the relevant aetiological factors. There is robust evidence from g...
López-Herce, Jesús Matamoros, Martha M. Moya, Luis Almonte, Enma Coronel, Diana Urbano, Javier Carrillo, Ángel del Castillo, Jimena Mencía, Santiago Moral, Ramón
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BackgroundTo describe the design and to present the results of a paediatric and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program adapted to Latin-America.MethodsA paediatric CPR coordinated training project was set up in several Latin-American countries with the instructional and scientific support of the Spanish Group for Paediatric a...
Panczyk, Mariusz Juszczyk, Grzegorz Zarzeka, Aleksander Samoliński, Łukasz Belowska, Jarosława Cieślak, Ilona Gotlib, Joanna
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BackgroundEvaluation of the predictive validity of selected sociodemographic factors and admission criteria for Master’s studies in Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw (MUW).MethodsFor the evaluation purposes recruitment data and learning results of students enrolled between 2008 and 2012 were used (N = 605...
