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BackgroundTo examine research background, attitudes, knowledge and skills of family medicine residents with regard to primary care research and to compare residents who elected to participate in the research stream with those who did not.MethodsMailed survey of Family Medicine residents at McMaster University in 1998, 70% (52/74) of whom responded....
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AimTo assess the level of knowledge for bronchial asthma of the primary healthcare physicians serving a rural population on the island of Crete, both before and immediately after a one-day educational course.MethodsTwenty-one primary health care physicians, randomly selected from a list of 14 Health Care Centres on the island of Crete were invited ...
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BackgroundPrior educational interventions to increase seeking evidence by medical students have been unsuccessful.MethodsWe report two quasirandomized controlled trials to increase seeking of medical evidence by third-year medical students. In the first trial (1997–1998), we placed computers in clinical locations and taught their use in a 6-hour co...
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Mission statements and role documents of medical schools in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia have been examined on their Internet Web sites and categorised in purpose, content and presentation. The format and content are highly variable, but there is a common vision of three integral roles, namely, education, advancement of k...
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BackgroundProviding high-quality clinical cases is important for teaching radiology. We developed, implemented and evaluated a program for a university hospital to support this task.MethodsThe system was built with Intranet technology and connected to the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). It contains cases for every user group fro...
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BackgroundJournal Club at a University-based residency program was restructured to introduce, reinforce and evaluate residents understanding of the concepts of Evidence Based Medicine.MethodsOver the course of a year structured pre and post-tests were developed for use during each Journal Club. Questions were derived from the articles being reviewe...
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BackgroundAssessment, as an inextricable component of the curriculum, is an important factor influencing student approaches to learning. If assessment is to drive learning, then it must assess the desired outcomes. In an effort to alleviate some of the anxiety associated with a traditional discipline-based second year of medical studies, a bonus sy...
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BackgroundLittle is known about using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in physical diagnosis courses. The purpose of this study was to describe student performance on an OSCE in a physical diagnosis course.MethodsCross-sectional study at Harvard Medical School, 1997–1999, for 489 second-year students.ResultsAverage total OSCE sc...
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BackgroundThe effectiveness of teaching critical appraisal to students of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has not been studied. In this study we attempt to determine if a workshop for final year students at a naturopathic college improved their ability to utilize critical appraisal concepts.MethodsWe assigned 83 Naturopathic Interns to...
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BackgroundThe geographical distribution of publications as an indicator of the research productivity of individual countries, regions or institutions has become a field of interest. We investigated the geographical distribution of contributions to the two leading journals in the field of medical education, Academic Medicine and Medical Education.Me...
