"A chance to show yourself" - how do applicants approach medical school admission essays?

abstract：:Clinical reasoning has been studied in residents or nurses, using interviews or patient-provider encounters. Despite a growing interest in interprofessional collaboration, the notion of collaborative reasoning has not been well studied in clinical settings. Our study aims at exploring resident-nurse collaborative reas...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Blondon KS,Maître F,Muller-Juge V,Bochatay N,Cullati S,Hudelson P,Vu NV,Savoldelli GL,Nendaz MR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome-based education is one of the most significant global developments in medical education in recent years. This paper presents four case studies of outcome-based education from medical schools in different parts of the world; Scotland; USA; Pakistan; and Singapore. The outcome-based curricula have either been in...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Davis MH,Amin Z,Grande JP,O'Neill AE,Pawlina W,Viggiano TR,Zuberi R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Until recently, Japanese legislative guidelines dictated that undergraduate clinical training consisted of students' observations of clinicians' work. In 2006, Tokyo Medical and Dental University initiated a reform of their traditional undergraduate clinical curriculum. The reform integrated students into pa...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Farrell SE,Takada K,Armstrong EG,Tanaka Y,Aretz HT

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 40 years experience teaching beginning medical students primarily microscopic anatomy (cell biology, histology and embryology), but also occasionally neuroanatomy and gross anatomy and while serving as the course director for Microscopic Anatomy for 18 years and counseling students with academic performance pro...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Burns ER

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Personal reflection is important for acquiring, maintaining and enhancing balanced medical professionalism. A new scale, the Groningen Reflection Ability Scale (GRAS), was developed to measure the personal reflection ability of medical students. METHOD:Explorative literature study was conducted to gather an initia...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Aukes LC,Geertsma J,Cohen-Schotanus J,Zwierstra RP,Slaets JP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Clinical reasoning is a key ability essential for practising health professionals. However, little is known about the current global adoption of clinical reasoning teaching and assessment.Purpose: We aimed to provide insights into how clinical reasoning is deliberately taught and assessed in curricula worl...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Kononowicz AA,Hege I,Edelbring S,Sobocan M,Huwendiek S,Durning SJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients present problems which exceed a junior doctor's ability to analyse and synthesize information on which management decisions must be made. As a result, he or she often consults with an attending physician or consultant. In this article four types of consultation are identified and analysed, each of which ...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Williams WC

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical schools in India produce the largest number of doctors than anywhere else in the world (30,408 from 271 medical schools), corresponding to the rapid proliferation of medical colleges in the last two decades, especially within the private sector. The Medical Council of India (MCI), the regulatory body, is requi...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Sood R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telemedicine can be used for education as well as clinical care. Wearable platforms now allow a remote student to "tele-present" cases to "Tele-Attending" elsewhere in real time. Most of the features that medical students rate as important can be accommodated in this paradigm. Augmenting the bedside case presentation ...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Adams RJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer-based learning is a tool that, when designed appropriately, can be used to effectively meet worthy educational goals. AIMS:This study aimed to compare acceptance and effectiveness of a tutored computer-based practical course (CPC) with a traditional biochemical laboratory experiment in pre-clinical...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Kröncke KD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses an approach to the teaching of residents and medical students by hospitalist physicians on a general pediatric unit. It focuses on three basic principles of teaching and describes how these can be operationalized in a practical way. If this approach is followed, hospitalist physicians can be mor...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Bellet PS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Often the scenarios and preparation time given to Simulated/Standardised Patients (SPs) is not sufficient. This leads to superficial portrayals lacking of energy. Due to incongruent verbal and non-verbal language, these portrayals often come across as unrealistic and fabricated. This article aims at describi...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Schweickerdt-Alker L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wide range of social software has become readily available to young people. There is increasing interest in the exciting possibilities of using social software for undergraduate medical education. AIMS:To identify the nature and extent of the use of social software by first year medical students. METHOD:...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Sandars J,Homer M,Pell G,Croker T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress, depression, and job burnout are plaguing the medical field. These issues have many causes, one of which is a stigma or the fear of being stigmatized that leads the sufferer to deny the problem or delay seeking help. In this article, I will share a recent story of how a mind adjustment from a negative view of t...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Kuang SY

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To lessen fact overload and to enhance the teaching of pharmacologic principles in an undergraduate course we introduced a tutorial/essay project into our traditional lecture-based course. Under the guidance of a faculty tutor, each student researched an assigned topic, developed a paper incorporating the results of t...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： McLeod P,Cuello C,Capek R,Collier B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Traditionally, medical students on clinical rotations receive instruction on principles of mental health only during the psychiatry clerkship. We used emails to insert teaching of psychiatric concepts beyond the psychiatry clerkship into other rotations using the method of spaced learning, the delivery of br...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Blazek MC,Dantz B,Wright MC,Fiedorowicz JG

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this series is to draw teachers' attention to useful sources of audiovisual programmes, to describe the services they provide, and to highlight some of their recent titles. ...

journal_title：Medical teacher

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更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about medical students' perceptions of the factors that influence their academic performance. AIM:To detect factors medical students, in the final years of their undergraduate medical studies, believe affect their academic performance. METHODS:We conducted semi-structured interviews with hi...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Todres M,Tsimtsiou Z,Sidhu K,Stephenson A,Jones R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working with 'problem' residents is a common challenge in medical education. This article describes a workshop designed to improve teachers' skills in this area as well as the results of an evaluation conducted to assess its effectiveness. Workshop modules focused on defining the problem, confirming the diagnosis, des...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Steinert Y,Nasmith L,Daigle N,Franco ED

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 201 first-year medical students were trained in a standard method of rectal examination; half of the year were additionally instructed to mimic a rectal examination using a clenched left fist (Group 2, n = 103). Competence in rectal examination was assessed during an objective structured clinical skills exa...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Bradley P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:OSCEs can be both reliable and valid but are subject to sources of error. Examiners become more hawkish as their experience grows, and recent research suggests that in clinical contexts, examiners are influenced by the ability of recently observed candidates. In OSCEs, where examiners test many candidates ov...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Hope D,Cameron H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful interprofessional teams are essential when caring for older adults with multiple complex medical conditions that require ongoing management from a variety of disciplines across healthcare settings. To successfully integrate interprofessional education into the healthcare professions curriculum, the most eff...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Ford CR,Foley KT,Ritchie CS,Sheppard K,Sawyer P,Swanson M,Harada CN,Brown CJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopy is an important diagnostic and therapeutic procedure that demands high levels of cognitive and technical skill to perform effectively. Surprisingly little is known about how endoscopy is best taught and training is often inadequate. The aims of this study were to explore the learning experiences of endoscopy...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Thuraisingam AI,MacDonald J,Shaw IS

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of a medical teacher proposed 25 years ago is still recommended. Some teachers are born to greatness, but more careful and more thoughtful attention, rather than less, should be given to preparation for that role for those not born to greatness. In addition the penury of blueprint of the expected relevant pro...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Guilbert JJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of academic programs can enhance the development, effectiveness, and dissemination of comparative quality reports as well as quality improvement efforts. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the five research methodology workshops through assessing participants' satisfaction, knowl...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Abdulghani HM,Shaik SA,Khamis N,Al-Drees AA,Irshad M,Khalil MS,Alhaqwi AI,Isnani A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well recognised that marked inequalities in mortality and morbidity exist between populations particularly those in lower socio-economic groups, including Indigenous and some ethnic minorities. Academic medicine has not yet articulated a clear stance on reducing health inequity within communities. AIM...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Sanson-Fisher RW,Williams N,Outram S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residents are essential teachers of students and interns, yet few opportunities exist for them to improve their teaching skills. The authors designed and implemented a longitudinal teaching skills curriculum for second-year categorical medicine residents on ambulatory block. This curriculum involves residents giving t...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Bharel M,Jain S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the effect of student examiners (SE) to that of faculty examiners (FE) on examinee performance in an OSCE as well as on post-assessment evaluation in the area of emergency medicine management. METHODS:An OSCE test-format (seven stations: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (B...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Iblher P,Zupanic M,Karsten J,Brauer K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ability to deliver the traditional apprenticeship method of teaching clinical skills is becoming increasingly more difficult as a result of greater demands in health care delivery, increasing student numbers and changing medical curricula. Serious consequences globally include: students not covering al...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Régo P,Peterson R,Callaway L,Ward M,O'Brien C,Donald K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous use of technology in medical education creates increasing tensions related to the benefits and disadvantages of the ease of access to content and the opportunity to monitor online behavior. We recommend a collaborative understanding by all stakeholders, from learners and educators to higher education in...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Goh PS,Sandars J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00