Library use and academic achievement among medical students.

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：:The average length of in-patient stay (LOS) in Japan is longer than that of the other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The tendency towards long LOS is also apparent in teaching hospitals in Japan. This paper examines factors responsible for the long LOS in teaching hospitals, fo...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yamaoka K,Kobayashi Y,Yano E

更新日期：1993-05-01 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:Authentic early experience (AEE) describes experiences provided to new medical students to undertake 'human contact' to enhance learning. Although the concept of AEE is not new, and was commonplace prior to the Flexner Report of 1910, little is known about how or why meaning and knowledge are constructed throug...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yardley S,Brosnan C,Richardson J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system for linked tutorial teaching involving several groups of students at different locations has been introduced successfully into the teaching resources of the University of Wales College of Medicine. It utilizes standard telephone equipment supplemented by specially prepared videocassette material. The results ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Hibbard BM,Marshall RJ,Evans RW,Duthie HL

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional clinical examination has been shown to have serious limitations in terms of its validity and reliability. The OSCE provides some answers to these limitations and has become very popular. Many variants on the original OSCE format now exist and much research has been done on various aspects of their use....

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Newble D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical practice and medical education are undergoing revolutionary changes all over the world. Even though the denominators of change are usually viewed at national and institutional levels, global trends also play an important role, and international co-operation is needed now, more than ever. Thailand with its rapi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Suwanwela C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the epidemiological method in primary health care (PHC) has become an accepted part of the service. The team will utilize community-oriented data in order to assess the health needs of the population, perform continued surveillance of changes in the health of the people served and for service evaluation. Th...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Epstein LM,Tamir A,Spenser T,Perlman S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The evaluation of training is problematic and the evidence base inconclusive. This situation may arise for 2 main reasons: training is not understood as a complex intervention and, related to this, the evaluation methods applied are often overly simplistic. METHOD:This paper makes the case for construing train...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Drescher U,Warren F,Norton K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postal survey about opinions of quality assurance and the methods used to teach this subject was sent to all family practice course organizers in England, Wales and Scotland, and to all family practice residency directors in the USA. Opinions of quality assurance were more positive from the American responders. A wi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Baker R,Green L

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The housemanship performance of the first two classes of the University of Gezira Medical School was assessed on 107 occasions by using a questionnaire administered to the senior doctors (consultants) in the units in which they worked and the data, which covered 32% of all housemanship rotations taken by these graduat...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Abdel Rahim IM,Mustafa AE,Ahmed BO

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：: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：:At the mid-term test in Part I Physiology at the University of Zagreb the students (n = 280) were graded by our standard pass level (SPL) arbitrarily set at 54% correct answers (SPL = 0.54). The test consisted of 50 items of the one best answer type. Items were selected from the pool by one examiner to conform, by his...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Pokrajac N,Culo F

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Apprenticeship learning is common in medical education, but is often situated in theoretical frameworks which highlight its cognitive but not its social dimension. METHODS:We conducted an ethnographic case study of paediatric residents' learning relationships with their preceptors in a community-based paediatr...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Balmer DF,Serwint JR,Ruzek SB,Giardino AP

更新日期：2008-09-01 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: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：: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：:In a recent review article, Colliver concluded that there was no convincing evidence that problem-based learning was more effective than conventional methods. He then went on to lay part of the blame on cognitive psychology, claiming that 'the theory is weak, its theoretical concepts are imprecise. the basic research ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Norman GR,Schmidt HG

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Educational programmes for family practice should develop family counselling skills of students to moderate levels of competence. Few specific training programmes are part of the regular curriculum and of these few are evaluated. Twenty-three residents enrolled in a 2-year family practice programme in Toronto, Canada ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Rudner HL,Bestvater D,Bader E

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Since their introduction, workplace-based assessments (WBAs) have proliferated throughout postgraduate medical education. Previous reviews have identified mixed findings regarding WBAs' effectiveness, but have not considered the importance of user-tool-context interactions. The present review was conducted t...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Prentice S,Benson J,Kirkpatrick E,Schuwirth L

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:The teaching of ethics to medical students has recently become a topic of much importance to all concerned with medical education. However, those most involved, the students themselves, have been consulted very little. This paper reports the views of a sample of medical students at Oxford University on what ethics tea...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Delaney B,Kean L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Teaching at the bedside during attending rounds is considered to be fundamental to medical education. We conducted an ethnographic case study to investigate such teaching in general paediatrics as a social phenomenon and to explore change over time in both the meaning of rounds and the context in which round...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Balmer DF,Master CL,Richards BF,Serwint JR,Giardino AP

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:The work of five principals in a teaching general practice was audited to examine differences in prescribing, investigation and follow-up between teaching and service work over a 3-week period. The patients seen in clinical teaching were found to be representative of those consulting in normal service sessions for bot...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Freeman GK

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Competency-based medical education (CBME) requires that educators structure assessment of clinical competence using outcome frameworks. Although these frameworks may serve some outcomes well (e.g. represent eventual practice), translating these into workplace-based assessment plans may undermine validity and...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Tavares W,Rowland P,Dagnone D,McEwen LA,Billett S,Sibbald M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Small declines in patient-centred attitudes during medical education have caused great concern. Although some of the self-report scales applied have solid psychometric foundations, validity evidence for the interpretation of attitude erosion during clerkships remains weak. OBJECTIVES:We sought to address this ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Bombeke K,Symons L,Mortelmans D,Debaene L,Schol S,Van Royen P,De Winter B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Africa is undergoing tremendous political and social change affecting every sphere of society, including medical education and the delivery of health services. The legacy of its history created a health system that in some respects can be compared to the best in the world, but one also characterized by inequity,...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： de Villiers PJ,de Villiers MR

更新日期：1999-10-01 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