Integrating human factors into the medical curriculum.

abstract：:A new teaching programme for fourth-year medical students in child health in Harare, Zimbabwe is outlined. A 2-week attachment to a rural district-level hospital is intended to orient the students to primary health care and to the practice of clinical medicine in a low resource environment. The attachment has become p...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Waterston T,Sanders D

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major focus in the selection of entrants for medical school has traditionally been on academic achievement in school-leaving examinations in which certain science subjects are a requirement. A longitudinal study of 413 successful applicants was undertaken to determine the relationship of these admission criteria t...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Collins JP,White GR,Kennedy JA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Finland primary health care has a long historical background. The local communities, the state and the church have at various times and places been responsible for primary health care during the last few centuries. In 1972, a major reform took place when a new Primary Health Care Act came into force. In the same ye...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kumpusalo E,Tuomilehto J

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the increased need to train well-rounded general practitioners within a limited time schedule, the teaching staff developed a self-instructional videotape programme devoted to suicide assessment. This tape, if successful, was to serve as a pilot for a full series of 18 tapes devoted to the assessment an...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Golden K,Furst E,Sundermann R,Delk J,McGill S

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:We describe the steps taken to develop an appropriate list of 'clinical problems' used to define the content of the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) component of the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) examination. METHOD:A blueprint and list of 255 clinical problems was c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Tombleson P,Fox RA,Dacre JA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) skills tend to degrade over time. There is mounting evidence that high-fidelity simulation (HFS) is advantageous to teaching ACLS. The aspects of HFS that enhance learning are not entirely clear, but the anxiety generated by a scenario may enhance retention through well-e...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Demaria S Jr,Bryson EO,Mooney TJ,Silverstein JH,Reich DL,Bodian C,Levine AI

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years student ratings have been used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of various courses and the teaching abilities of the instructors involved. Investigators have either supported or attacked the validity of this assessment procedure on the basis of the direction and degree of the relationship found be...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mendelson MA,Canaday SD,Hardin JH

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the degree of consistency in student ratings of teacher effectiveness during the first year of medical school. Student ratings of teaching effectiveness represent a commonly used source of information that enters into the academic decision-making process. In medical school, stud...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： West RF

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We placed anaesthesia teams into a stressful environment in order to explore interactions between members of different professional groups and to investigate their perspectives on the impact of these interactions on team performance. METHODS:Ten anaesthetists, 5 nurses and 5 trained anaesthetic assistants e...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weller JM,Janssen AL,Merry AF,Robinson B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Interprofessional education (IPE) aspires to enable collaborative practice. Current IPE offerings, although rapidly proliferating, lack evidence of efficacy and theoretical grounding. OBJECTIVES:Our research aimed to explore the historical emergence of the field of IPE and to analyse the positioning of this ac...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Paradis E,Whitehead CR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE:In many countries, medical training must be completed by presentation of a thesis. We report publication patterns of French medical theses. MATERIALS:We drew a random sample of theses presented in the 36 French medical universities between 1 January 1993 and 31 December 1997. The sample was strat...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Salmi LR,Gana S,Mouillet E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to gather information regarding the appropriateness of the length of time allotted for candidates to complete the history taking and physical examination tasks in a high-stakes standardized patient (SP) assessment. DESIGN:Data were collected on actual time used by 1548 examinee...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Chambers KA,Boulet JR,Gary NE

更新日期：2000-10-01 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

abstract：:The academic performance of 104 fourth-year medical students was assessed in relation to their sleep habits reported in a questionary and their scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Poorer academic performance was related significantly to later times of waking up in the morning, particularly at we...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Johns MW,Dudley HA,Masterton JP

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a written cognitive aid on expressed clinical reasoning and quantity and the accuracy of information transfer during resident doctor handover. METHODS:This study was a randomised controlled trial in an academic paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of 20 handover events (10 events pe...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weiss MJ,Bhanji F,Fontela PS,Razack SI

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Continuity of supervision (CoS) is generally accepted as an important element of competency-based medical education (CBME). However, collecting and interpreting evidence for its effectiveness are a challenge because we lack a shared understanding of CoS. Translating the available evidence about CoS into practic...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Lee AS,Ross S

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:At the University of Queensland all medical students in their fifth year rotate through a 2-week attachment to a general practitioner tutor as part of the course in community practice. As a means of learning from this experience each student records information in a log diary on seventy-five consecutive patients seen,...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Munro JG

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical specialties are being intensively reconsidered in the countries of Europe. The important need is for promoting improvement of educational training programmes. Evaluation and improvement of specialist training programmes is the priority and not the setting up of qualifying examinations. The first necessity ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Karle H,Nystrup J,Walton H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Remediation is usually offered to medical students and doctors in training who underperform on written or clinical examinations. However, there is uncertainty and conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of remediation. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesise the available evidence to clarify...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cleland J,Leggett H,Sandars J,Costa MJ,Patel R,Moffat M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper describes the process of validating the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) for use with postgraduate health care professionals. CONTEXT:The RIPLS questionnaire has proved useful in the undergraduate context, enabling tutors to assess the readiness of students to engage in interprofe...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Reid R,Bruce D,Allstaff K,McLernon D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the introduction of problem-based learning (PBL) at McMaster University in 1969, many medical schools in the USA, Canada and Europe have included PBL in their curricula. In the past decade, many medical schools in Asia have also done so. However, so far no one has questioned whether the outcomes expect...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Khoo HE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Avoidable breaches of patient confidentiality due to inadvertence or ignorance occur frequently. The aim of this study was to explore whether participants were able to identify violations of confidentiality and how serious these violations were. DESIGN:After a 2-hour theoretical education session, participa...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Elger BS,Harding TW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random survey of 400 doctors was carried out over a period of 3 months to determine the factors that would facilitate or inhibit the participation of doctors in continuing medical education (CME) in Malaysia. Regular participation in CME was defined as participation in any activity (self-directed reading or attendin...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Shahabudin SH,Edariah AB

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to provide in-depth information on the reliabilities of measures of the separate components of clinical competence (e.g. data collection, test interpretation, diagnosis, etc.) assessed by a performance-based examination consisting of standardized-patient cases administered to five class...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Colliver JA,Vu NV,Markwell SJ,Verhulst SJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Widening access to higher education is a political priority. Social trends among medical school applicants are presently monitored using information on parental occupation. However, not all students now provide this information on their university application forms. OBJECTIVES:To compare the demographic charac...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Do PC,Parry J,Mathers J,Richardson M

更新日期：2006-08-01 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:Health care trainees demonstrate implicit (automatic, unconscious) and explicit (conscious) bias against people from stigmatised and marginalised social groups, which can negatively influence communication and decision making. Medical schools are well positioned to intervene and reduce bias in new physicians. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Phelan SM,Puhl RM,Burke SE,Hardeman R,Dovidio JF,Nelson DB,Przedworski J,Burgess DJ,Perry S,Yeazel MW,van Ryn M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although peer-assisted learning (PAL) is widely employed throughout medical education, its effectiveness for training in technical procedures in skills laboratories has been subject to little systematic investigation. We conducted a prospective, randomised trial to evaluate the hypotheses that PAL is effecti...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weyrich P,Celebi N,Schrauth M,Möltner A,Lammerding-Köppel M,Nikendei C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Critical reflection may improve health professionals' performance of the social roles of care (eg collaboration) in indeterminate zones of practice that are ambiguous, unique, unstable or value-conflicted. Research must explore critical reflection in practice and how it is developed. In this study, we explored ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Ng SL,Mylopoulos M,Kangasjarvi E,Boyd VA,Teles S,Orsino A,Lingard L,Phelan S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00