Portfolio-based learning: continuing medical education for general practitioners--a mid-point evaluation.

abstract：CONTEXT:The assessment of ethical problem solving in medicine has been controversial and challenging. The purposes of this study were: (i) to create a new instrument to measure doctors' decisions on and reasoning approach towards resolving ethical problems; (ii) to evaluate the scores generated by the new instrument fo...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Tsai TC,Harasym PH,Coderre S,McLaughlin K,Donnon T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate whether or not education about the concept of uncertainty reduced variability in treatment decision-making. Three small groups of dentists in North York, Canada were asked to make restorative treatment decisions about simulated bitewing radiographs. They subsequently took...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Choi BC,Jokovic A,Kay EJ,Main PA,Leake JL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Simulated patients (SPs) are extensively used in the teaching of medical communication, both for students and doctors. They occupy a unique middle ground between patients and physicians: although free from the prejudices that medical training brings, they work closely with clinical tutors to promote the princip...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Laughey W,Sangvik Grandal N,M Finn G

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although several studies (Anat Sci Educ, 8 [6], 525, 2015) have shown that computer-based anatomy programs (three-dimensional visualisation technology [3DVT]) are inferior to ordinary physical models (PMs), the mechanism is not clear. In this study, we explored three mechanisms: haptic feedback, transfer-app...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Wainman B,Wolak L,Pukas G,Zheng E,Norman GR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its first implementation in a medical programme at McMaster University, Canada, problem-based learning (PBL) has become a well-established means of teaching and learning medicine. Extensive research has been conducted and a number of strengths of the method are well supported. Several items, however, remain uncl...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Antepohl W,Herzig S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of clinical procedural skills has traditionally focused on technical elements alone. However, in real practice, clinicians are expected to be able to integrate technical with communication and other professional skills. We describe an integrated procedural performance instrument (IPPI), where ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kneebone R,Nestel D,Yadollahi F,Brown R,Nolan C,Durack J,Brenton H,Moulton C,Archer J,Darzi A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry before and after their final (sixth) year psychiatric clerkship at a large psychiatric hospital were measured. We anticipated that exposure to severe, chronic psychiatric illness would affect student attitudes, and we undertook this study to investigate the direction and p...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Galletly CA,Schrader GD,Chesterman HM,Tsourtos G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeless people have greater health care needs than those who are housed, yet often experience difficulty in accessing health care. Evidence suggests that the attitudes of doctors can create significant barriers to health care for homeless people. METHODS:A validated structured questionnaire, the Attitudes ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Masson N,Lester H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Recent studies suggest that self-explanation (SE) while diagnosing cases fosters the development of clinical reasoning in medical students; however, the conditions that optimise the impact of SE remain unknown. The example-based learning framework justifies an exploration of students' use of their own SEs combi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Chamberland M,Mamede S,St-Onge C,Setrakian J,Bergeron L,Schmidt H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The adverse patient event is an inherent component of surgical practice, but many surgeons are unprepared for the profound emotional responses these events can evoke. This study explored surgeons' reactions to adverse events and their impact on subsequent judgement and decision making. METHODS:Using a construc...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Luu S,Patel P,St-Martin L,Leung AS,Regehr G,Murnaghan ML,Gallinger S,Moulton CA

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：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：CONTEXT:Programme evaluation is perpetually mandated in health professions education. Correspondingly, there has been an expansion in prescriptive methodological guides about 'how' to engage in various best practices in evaluation. However, what has gained less attention is an examination of the 'value' that different ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Onyura B

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:This study reports on the generalizability of different skills assessed in the oral certification examinations in Internal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Assessments from the 1992 examination were examined prospectively to determine (i) inter-rater reliability, (ii) correlation fro...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Turnbull J,Danoff D,Norman G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Much attention and emphasis are placed on the selection of medical students. Although selection measures have been validated in the literature, it is not yet known whether high scores at selection are indicative of high levels of interpersonal aptitude. Emotional intelligence (EI) is reported to be a predictor ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Carr SE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In collaboration with aid agencies and government health workers, Save the Children Fund medical staff have been involved in the training of primary health care workers in the Sahel region of upper Volta. This report deals specifically with the problems involved in training illiterate health workers. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cross I

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the ways in which total resources available for the Service Increment for Teaching (SIFT) have been determined and related to numbers of undergraduate medical students; and the development and current arrangements for allocating SIFT to the providers of service support for teaching. DESIGN:The d...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Clack GB,Bevan G,Eddleston AL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:As a contribution to this special issue commemorating the journal's 50th volume, this paper seeks to explore directions for national licensing examinations (NLEs) in medicine. Increases in the numbers of new medical schools and the mobility of doctors across national borders mean that NLEs are becoming even mor...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Swanson DB,Roberts TE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Clinical context may act as both an aid to decision making and a source of bias contributing to medical error. The effect of clinical history, a form of clinical context, on the diagnostic accuracy of the physical examination is unknown. METHODS:We randomised internal medicine residents to receive either no hi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sibbald M,Panisko D,Cavalcanti RB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Adapting web-based (WB) instruction to learners' individual differences may enhance learning. Objectives This study aimed to investigate aptitude-treatment interactions between learning and cognitive styles and WB instructional methods. METHODS:We carried out a factorial, randomised, controlled, crossover, pos...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Cook DA,Gelula MH,Dupras DM,Schwartz A

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:This paper compares the opportunities for flexible (part-time) specialist training in the UK and elsewhere in the EU in the overall context of the rising numbers of women doctors across Europe. Few other EU countries appear to provide the same opportunities for flexible training as the UK, despite high percentages of ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Maingay J,Goldberg I

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：: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:The attitudes towards the basic sciences of medical students enrolled in either of 2 different curricula at the University of Utrecht Medical School in The Netherlands were investigated. The purpose of this study was threefold: first, to compare students (beginning clerks) in a conventional and an innovative...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Custers EJ,Cate OT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Student assessment in community settings presents problems for medical teachers, e.g., difficulties in assessing the contribution of individual members to group work, and lack of test standardization due to varying field conditions. The Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira, Sudan is a community-oriented, communit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Magzoub ME,Schmidt HG,Abdel-Hameed AA,Dolmans D,Mustafa SE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teaching preclinical medical students about doctor-patient communication gives them an opportunity to develop their interviewing skills prior to their having to elicit lists of symptoms in their clinical years. General practitioners should be among the more efficient interviewers in clinical medicine and therefore abl...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kendrick T,Freeling P

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00