Medical education for minorities at a US medical school.

abstract：CONTEXT:Admissions interviews are unreliable and have poor predictive validity, yet are the sole measures of non-cognitive skills used by most medical school admissions departments. The low reliability may be due in part to variation in conditional reliability across the rating scale. OBJECTIVES:To describe an empiric...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Stansfield RB,Kreiter CD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How contract learning may be used in the introduction to clinical medicine is described, with the goal to develop and enhance self-directed learning skills and attitudes of first- and second-year medical students. Essential tasks associated with successful self-directed learning are cited, and the contract method is d...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fox RD,West RF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish teaching objectives, methods and assessment for a paediatric induction programme. DESIGN:Action research over a 2-year period. PARTICIPANTS:88 doctors from three hospitals. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:These were end-of-course evaluations, using Likert scales, and free comments; independent evaluati...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Melville C,Wall D,Samuels M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Educational interventions may ultimately impact on patient care as well as affecting individuals' learning. Critical evaluation of educational literature by those involved in designing and developing educational interventions is therefore important. A checklist instrument for critically appraising reports of...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Morrison JM,Sullivan F,Murray E,Jolly B

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The number of women entering medical school has increased substantially in recent years. However, practising female doctors still report gender-associated professional challenges. We focused on female medical students to characterise how gender shapes the range of their professional experiences during the pre-c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Babaria P,Bernheim S,Nunez-Smith M

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Medical students must develop not only their professional identity but also inclusive social attitudes for effective medical practice in the future. This study explores the elements that contribute to medical students' sense of professional identity and investigates the concept of social exclusivity and how ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weaver R,Peters K,Koch J,Wilson I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An instrument has been developed to assess tutor performance in problem-based tutorial groups. This tutor evaluation questionnaire consists of 13 statements reflecting the tutor's behaviour. The statements are based on a description of the tasks set for the tutor. This study reports results on the validity and reliabi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dolmans DH,Wolfhagen IH,Schmidt HG,van der Vleuten CP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Previous research has shown that general practitioners (GPs) hold negative attitudes towards patients with schizophrenia, which do not simply reflect the nature or chronic aspects of the illness. This study aimed to describe the attitudes and predicted behaviour of medical students towards patients with mental ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dixon RP,Roberts LM,Lawrie S,Jones LA,Humphreys MS

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to determine whether Medical Informatics education among house staff is included in the current residency curriculum, and to present ways in which this type of education may be improved. DESIGN:During autumn 1996 a mailed survey was distributed to chief residents of American ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Roberts JR,Spooner SA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To follow the progress of young female adolescents, as risk-taking standardised patients (SPs), and to monitor for adverse affects that role-playing may have on the adolescents. METHODS:A prospective design was used in which 11 female adolescents, aged 13-15 years, were recruited from 2 schools. The adolesce...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Blake KD,Gusella J,Greaven S,Wakefield S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of incorporating humanities teaching into medical education is to encourage students to develop into more sensitive and caring doctors who communicate well with their patients and colleagues. CONTENT:A unique 4th year student elective at the Medical College of Wisconsin incorporates reflective a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Anderson R,Schiedermayer D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 62 men and 43 women, 14-88 years old, admitted to general medical wards in a public teaching hospital during 1991 were examined for discharge medications and for the recording of alcohol-drinking, tobacco-smoking and discharge diagnosis. Drinking and smoking status was unrecorded in 22.9% and 21.9% of p...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Bairstow BM,Burke V,Beilin LJ,Deutscher C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine how patient-centredness is understood and enacted in an American (US) and an Italian group of health care professionals. METHODS:An action research methodology was used. Two interprofessional groups of US (n = 4) and Italian (n = 5) health care professionals independently wrote a patient-centred d...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Lamiani G,Meyer EC,Rider EA,Browning DM,Vegni E,Mauri E,Moja EA,Truog RD

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The General Medical Council's document 'Tomorrow's Doctors' (1993, GMC, London) recommended major changes in the undergraduate curricula of UK medical schools. In Nottingham, the fourth-year psychiatric attachment became shorter in duration, and interactive, problem-oriented, workshop-based learning replaced lectures....

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Singh SP,Baxter H,Standen P,Duggan C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVES:To: (i) identify key assumptions of the scientific 'paradigm' that shapes clinical communication research and education in cancer care; (ii) show that, as general rules, these do not match patients' own priorities for communication; and (iii) suggest how the paradigm might change to reflect evidence better a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Salmon P,Young B

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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：:Most people who attend professional meetings would appreciate the use by speakers of more illustrative material with their lectures. This may be presented on a writing surface such as a black- or whiteboard, as projected pictures or by sound recordings. Suitable equipment is available in most halls and suggestions are...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Essex-Lopresti M

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：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 learning styles and preferences of health professionals have been studied increasingly over the past decade, yet few relationships have been found between doctors' career choices and learning styles. One of the problems of relating learning styles to specialty choice is that learning style instruments measure how ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Jewett LS,Greenberg LW,Foley RP,Goldberg RM,Spiegel CT,Green C

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Beginning medical students spend numerous hours every week attending basic science lectures and taking notes. Medical faculty often wonder whether they should give students pre-printed instructors' notes before lectures. Proponents of this strategy argue that provided notes enhance learning by facilitating the accurat...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Morrison EH,McLaughlin C,Rucker L

更新日期：2002-04-01 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:Rural community-based medical education (RCBME), in which medical student learning activities take place within a rural community, requires students, clinical teachers, patients, community members and representatives of health and government sectors to actively contribute to the educational process. Therefore, ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Somporn P,Ash J,Walters L

更新日期：2018-08-01 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