Ethnic and social disparities in performance on medical school selection criteria.

abstract：:Scripts of a short answer Final MB examination paper were re-marked by the original examiner and three colleagues. While individual question marks varied considerably, most examiners agreed quite well as to the overall rank order of candidates--although not about absolute total marks--but a few disagreed considerably....

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Wakeford RE,Roberts S

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Due to the high volume and acuity of mental health issues presented by graduate and professional students nationwide, this study explored specific mental health needs in students in order to identify credible areas for intervention. METHODS:An assessment tool was created for this project, which identified sati...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Stecker T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the literature on clinical teaching indicates that medical schools emphasize didactic teaching of facts. Interpersonal skills, problem solving skills and cultivation of attitudes are neglected. However, the literature also described the skills of 'good' clinical teachers, and enumerates them. Programmes at...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yonke AM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This instalment in the series on professional assessment provides an introduction to methods of setting standards. METHOD:A standard is a special score that serves as a boundary between those who perform well enough and those who do not. The practical steps in selecting it include: deciding on the type of st...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Norcini JJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Limited data illuminate how resident doctors view their important roles as teachers, supervisors and role models. Analysing qualitative data about resident teachers' self-perceptions can offer helpful insights. METHODS:One year after a randomised trial of a residents-as-teachers curriculum at a university...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Morrison EH,Shapiro JF,Harthill M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the perceptions of medical students and clinical teachers of teaching and learning in the clinical setting. DESIGN:Qualitative study of focus groups with undergraduate medical students and semistructured interviews with hospital consultant clinical teachers. SETTING:The School of Medicine, Unive...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Stark P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Trainees in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education engage in multiple transitions as part of the educational process, including many transitions that occur on both periodic and daily bases within medical education programmes. The clinical rotation, based on either a medical discipline or clinical care...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Holmboe E,Ginsburg S,Bernabeo E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its certification programme, which assesses the readiness of foreign medical graduates to enter graduate medical education programmes in the USA, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is involved in a number of other programmes in international medical education. These include...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Miranda M

更新日期：1995-01-01 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:A student's academic success in graduate and professional school may depend on prior knowledge. However, these students may not see important and necessary material for extended periods of time between their pre-requisites and their new course work. As such, they are more prone to being unable to access availab...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schimmelfing LC,Persky AM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved teaching package is described which aims to help general practice trainees manage somatized presentations of psychological distress. The package comprises a training videotape in which a reattribution model is demonstrated, with material for role-play of new skills and small-group video feedback of consult...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kaaya S,Goldberg D,Gask L

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:The General Medical Council has issued a call for an increase in community-based medical education, and many medical schools are enhancing the community component of their curricula. This paper uses the experience of a community-based junior medical firm to explore the potential costs, and highlight some of the unreso...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Murray E,Jinks V,Modell M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Simulated clinical immersion (SCI), in which clinical situations are simulated in a realistic environment, safely and gradually exposes novices to complex problems. Given their limited experience, undergraduate students can potentially be quite overwhelmed by SCI learning tasks, which may result in misleading l...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Tremblay ML,Leppink J,Leclerc G,Rethans JJ,Dolmans DHJM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Adequate medical education has 3 interrelated aspects: theoretical knowledge, practical skills and the personal attitude of the doctor. The current emphasis on medical science diverts attention from the importance of the attitude aspect of medical education. We argue that the integration of palliative care into...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Olthuis G,Dekkers W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and maintenance of expertise in any domain requires extensive, sustained practice of the necessary skills. However, the quantity of time spent is not the only factor in achieving expertise; the quality of this time is at least as important. The development and maintenance of expertise requires extensiv...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Guest CB,Regehr G,Tiberius RG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Medical students' personal and professional behaviours have been assessed poorly in medical schools. No research exists exploring the acceptability of 360-degree judgements as a method of assessing such behaviours. This study aims to explore students' and assessors' views and experiences of 360-degree judg...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Rees C,Shepherd M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical students are allocated little curriculum time for exposure to expert systems. ESTA, a computer model of an expert system, was developed to make best use of this time. The nature of the students' interaction with ESTA is described, and their reactions to the expert system concepts and the place of expert system...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McWilliams AT

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper outlines one component, the project, which in 4 years became an integral part of the Human Ecology course at the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Although it is to be retained in some form, it would seem that the full potential of the device for medical undergraduates has not b...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Craddock MJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We instituted two thanatology seminars for medical students and residents which emphasized feelings more than objective data. The seminars began with students filling out a death certificate on themselves. Eighty-four per cent predicted that their own probable cause of death would be from an acute illness. Discussion ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McFarland KF,Rollins EC,Gonzalez MF,Rhoades DR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Most medical schools in the UK have been engaged in major curriculum reform based on their premises of what might improve undergraduate medical education. In 1994 the course at the medical school of the University of Manchester changed to an integrated course using problem-based learning throughout and wit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Jones A,McArdle PJ,O'Neill PA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated in response to the availabilty of unlimited access to MEDLINE via the PaperChase interface at the host institution. The goal of the study was to analyse the usage of MEDLINE by medical students during their third-year clinical clerkship in paediatrics. This was achieved by first giving them a ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schwartz DG,Schwartz SA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine teachers' views of the first batch of graduates of a revised medical curriculum in Asia. METHODS:A cross-sectional study using a structured questionnaire was carried out to obtain the views of all the clinical teachers involved in teaching final year students of the old curriculum in 2000-01 and t...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Lam TP,Khoo US,Chan YS,Cheng YH,Lam KF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many doctors rate themselves as ineffective smoking cessation counsellors. It is logical to initiate training efforts with medical students. We incorporated smoking history-taking in the physical diagnosis course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill using a simple method to teach smoking history-taking s...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Boehlecke B,Sperber AD,Kowlowitz V,Becker M,Contreras A,McGaghie WC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Intraprofessional collaboration (intraPC) between primary care (PC) doctors and medical specialists (MSs) is becoming increasingly important. Patient safety issues are often related to intraPC. In order to equip doctors well for their task of providing good quality and continuity of care, intraPC needs explicit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Looman N,Fluit C,van Wijngaarden M,de Groot E,Dielissen P,van Asselt D,de Graaf J,Scherpbier-de Haan N

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Recent psychological research suggests how to simplify texts and translate quantitative concepts into the language of clinical medicine. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Politser PE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuing education should be convenient, relevant, individualized, systematic and include means of assessment. Educational technology provides the link between teaching and learning; it should accommodate the essential interactions between learner, instructor, environment and material. Media in open learning systems...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cairncross RG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Prescribing practices impact greatly on drug use and expenditure. The situation in developing countries is often compounded by a limited health budget. Furthermore, because of role substitution in these countries, prescribers are often not formally trained in rational prescribing. The study described in this...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Meyer JC,Summers RS,Möller H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00