A pre-employment programme for overseas-trained doctors entering the Australian workforce, 1997-99.

abstract：CONTEXT:The occupational health literature has long been dominated by stress-related topics. A more contemporary perspective suggests using a positive approach in the form of a health model focused on what is right with people, such as feelings of well-being and satisfaction. OBJECTIVES:Using a positive perspective an...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weng HC,Hung CM,Liu YT,Cheng YJ,Yen CY,Chang CC,Huang CK

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to measure the prevalence of psychological morbidity, and the nature and source of stress, in first year medical students. Two hundred and four first year medical students at a university in the north of England were sent a postal, self-report questionnaire. They were asked to complete the Ge...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Guthrie EA,Black D,Shaw CM,Hamilton J,Creed FH,Tomenson B

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical teachers' understanding of the vocabulary of medical education has been studied by asking a group of medical teachers whether they understood twenty-two commonly used and important medical educational terms, and whether they could distinguish between the terms. All the words presented some problem of comprehen...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Barker VF,Harden RM

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Evidence supports the substitution of both clinical placement time and traditional educational activities with simulation-based education (SBE). However, lack of resources can be a barrier to SBE implementation. Peer simulation provides an alternative to simulated patient (SP)-based SBE by educating students to...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dalwood N,Bowles KA,Williams C,Morgan P,Pritchard S,Blackstock F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strengths of general practice in the UK as a training environment for overseas doctors intending to implement the World Health Organization strategy 'Health for All by the Year 2000' in primary care are identified. A course of advanced training for teachers and administrators of primary care is described and evalu...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： al-Bashir M,Bundred PE,Stanley IM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Electives are part of most Western medical school curricula. It is estimated that each year 3000-4000 undergraduate medical students from the UK alone undertake an elective in a developing country. The impact of these electives has given some cause for concern, but the views of elective hosts are largely missin...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kumwenda B,Dowell J,Daniels K,Merrylees N

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the importance of psycho-social factors in medicine is increasingly stressed, it is believed that attitudes towards psycho-social issues in medicine should be taken into account in the selection of medical students. The first step of a longitudinal study concerning the impact of medical studies on the students of a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Streit U

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about medical students' lifestyles was obtained from 785 second-year students from seven medical schools in Great Britain by a personally administered questionnaire. Fifteen per cent of the students were non-drinkers. Among those who drank, 48% of the men and 38% of the women exceeded sensible weekly limit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Webb E,Ashton CH,Kelly P,Kamah F

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system for administering multiple choice questions and for providing immediate feedback via microcomputer was designed and field-tested by three groups of paediatric residents. Only minor technical problems were encountered, and these can be resolved easily. Attitudes towards the system were strongly positive. Resid...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Butzin DW,Friedman CP,Brownlee RC

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Complete reporting of research is essential to enable consumers to accurately appraise, interpret and apply findings. Quality appraisal checklists are giving way to tools that judge the risk for bias. OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the prevalence of these complementary aspects of research reports (completen...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Horsley T,Galipeau J,Petkovic J,Zeiter J,Hamstra SJ,Cook DA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the effectiveness of videotapes in teaching mental state examination, two groups of medical students, one who had received videotape teaching and one not exposed to videotapes, are compared in their ability to observe accurately the mental state during a live interview. Accuracy of observation was a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sturgeon DA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study explored how challenge and threat responses to stress relate to performance, anxiety, confidence, team identity and team characteristics (time spent in training and postgraduate experience) in a medical simulation-based team competition. METHODS:The study was conducted during a national si...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Carenzo L,Braithwaite EC,Carfagna F,Franc J,Ingrassia PL,Turner MJ,Slater MJ,Jones MV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic thinking process is often described as one of hypothesis generation and testing. Yet descriptions of the clinical problem solver's thinking prior to generation of the first diagnostic hypothesis are lacking. This paper reports a study of this phase in students, house officers and registrars. Theories of...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Gale J,Marsden P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students often experience difficulties with the clinical communication skills that are essential for successful interactions in the workplace. However, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of assessment and intervention strategies for this population. The ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Chan A,Purcell A,Power E

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Adapting web-based (WB) instruction to learners' individual differences may enhance learning. Objectives This study aimed to investigate aptitude-treatment interactions between learning and cognitive styles and WB instructional methods. METHODS:We carried out a factorial, randomised, controlled, crossover, pos...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cook DA,Gelula MH,Dupras DM,Schwartz A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Understanding how students resolve professional conflict is essential to teaching and evaluating professionalism. The purpose of this study was to refine an existing coding structure of rationalizations of student behaviour, and to further our understanding of students' reasoning strategies in the face of perce...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Ginsburg S,Regehr G,Lingard L

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The responsibility to determine just who is competent to practice medicine, and at what standard, is great. Whilst there is still a period available for potential remediation, examinations at the completion of year three of the four-year Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) at Flinders University of South Au...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Searle J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:British medical school teachers of medical statistics aspire to teach statistical concepts without requiring medical students to undertake every statistical technique in the book. In the typical course of 20 to 30 hours, about 50 topics are taught, usually requiring the student to perform a technique. In a survey of c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dixon RA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musculoskeletal disease in the community is common, and much of it responds to early diagnosis and preventive care. At the same time, modern orthopaedics, like so many specialist subjects, has increased significantly in depth and detail pari passu with its advances. It therefore becomes all the more important in desig...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dickson RA,Houghton GR,Duthie RB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Medical schools continue to seek robust ways to select students with the greatest aptitude for medical education, training and practice. Tests of general cognition are used in combination with markers of prior academic achievement and other tools, although their predictive validity is unknown. This study compar...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Poole P,Shulruf B,Rudland J,Wilkinson T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Tutors in problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials have a complex role to play in facilitating students' learning. This includes providing support for students' acquisition of content knowledge and skills in critical thinking, coaching of group processes and modelling of reflective practice. Few studies which inv...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Papinczak T,Tunny T,Young L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1993 the General Medical Council published its recommendations on undergraduate medical education. AIM:To study the implementation of these recommendations in UK medical schools by means of informal visitations. METHODS:Teams consisting of 3-5 members visited the 25 UK medical schools in a 3-year period...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Christopher DF,Harte K,George CF

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Clinical Teaching Effectiveness Instrument (CTEI) was developed to evaluate the quality of the clinical teaching of educators. Its authors reported evidence supporting content and criterion validity and found favourable reliability findings. We tested the validity and reliability of this instrument in ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： van der Hem-Stokroos HH,van der Vleuten CP,Daelmans HE,Haarman HJ,Scherpbier AJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Within programmatic assessment, the ambition is to simultaneously optimise the feedback and the decision-making function of assessment. In this approach, individual assessments are intended to be low stakes. In practice, however, learners often perceive assessments designed to be low stakes as high stakes. I...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schut S,Driessen E,van Tartwijk J,van der Vleuten C,Heeneman S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The lack of published studies into effective skills teaching in clinical skills centres inspired this study of student views of the teaching behaviours of skills teachers. METHODS:We organised focus group discussions with students from Years 1-3 of a 6-year undergraduate medical curriculum. A total of 30 ra...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Martens MJ,Duvivier RJ,van Dalen J,Verwijnen GM,Scherpbier AJ,van der Vleuten CP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1996 the University of Liverpool introduced a new curriculum based on the recommendations published in Tomorrow's Doctors. This work examines how graduates of that course view their undergraduate curriculum and whether they consider it prepared them well for the pre-registration year. Five focus groups were arrange...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Watmough S,Garden A,Taylor D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasons for choosing dentistry as a profession were analysed among first-year dental students at the University of Toronto. The motivations of various sub-groups were also examined. It was found that an extrinsic motivation, financial rewards, was the most widespread, although the other widely chosen motivations refer...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cohen R,Coburn D

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare outcomes when answers to objective type problem-solving questions are marked with and without consideration of students' explanations of their answers. DESIGN:Students answered six multiple-part problem-solving questions on the final examination for a course in clinical biochemistry. Each part req...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schwartz PL,Loten EG

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In achieving a more effective use of resources in the National Health Service (NHS), the medical profession has a role to play by improving cost efficiency in clinical practice. This role implies that doctors should have some knowledge of medical costs. In order to determine the extent of this knowledge, sixty-seven h...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fowkes FG

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a method of teaching communication skills to pre-clinical medical students in the setting of general practice. By focusing on the nature of the patient's problem this teaching tries to place interviewing and diagnostic procedures in their proper context in the doctor-patient relationship. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Armstrong D,Hicks BH,Higgins PM,Weinman JA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00