Language background, English language proficiency and medical communication skills of medical students.

abstract：:The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSM) has initiated new efforts to build a regional minority applicant pool and to expand its educational programmes to accommodate students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specific interventions include: establishment of medical career planner position to coordinate re...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yergan J,Phillips TJ,Schaad DC,May A,Drickey R,Yerby MS

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether improvements gained in general practitioners' (GPs') self-perceived competency, attitudes and knowledge after an intervention in adolescent health care designed with evidence-based strategies in continuing medical education, are maintained longterm, 5 years post intervention. The interven...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sanci L,Coffey C,Patton G,Bowes G

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Information about medical students' lifestyles was obtained from 785 second-year students from seven medical schools in Great Britain by a personally administered questionnaire. Fifteen per cent of the students were non-drinkers. Among those who drank, 48% of the men and 38% of the women exceeded sensible weekly limit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Webb E,Ashton CH,Kelly P,Kamah F

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:All general practitioners (GPs) are expected to have an appraisal from 2002 and the first cohort will experience revalidation in 2005. Although there is a link between appraisal and revalidation, this has yet to be clarified. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of GPs towards reval...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Middlemass J,Siriwardena AN

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that the stressful nature of medical training is a major cause of impairment of doctors is explored in this study by examining whether changes in psychological adjustment occur during the first year, the first year is stressful, and sex differences in psychological adjustment or stress occur. All first-...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Hohaus LC,Berah EF

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(i) To design a new, quick and efficient method of assessing specific cognitive aspects of trainee clinical communication skills, to be known as the Objective Structured Video Exam (OSVE) (Study 1); (ii) to prepare a scoring scheme for markers (Study 2); and (iii) to determine reliability and evidence for va...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Humphris GM,Kaney S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Language is one of the primary modalities for teaching and learning in the health professions in contexts ranging from the more formal teaching relationships of medical school to the guided practice of trainees through continuing education and the deliberate practice of lifelong learning. Yet linguistic analysi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Konopasky A,Ramani D,Ohmer M,Durning SJ,Artino AR Jr,Battista A

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:A survey was conducted of the dental schools in the UK, inquiring about the teaching of psychology, sociology, epidemiology and psychiatry to dental undergraduates. Epidemiology was the most frequently taught and assessed subject, followed by psychology and sociology. Overall, the results indicate an increased concern...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kent G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to provide an epidemiological presence when teaching clinical medicine to undergraduate medical students in order to supply the underlying facts about disease. A series of pictorial or tabular presentations which together make up a 'master set' of Data Boards has been designed to give the medical stude...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Garraway WM,French EB,Scrimgeour JB,Pizer JE,Petrie H

更新日期：1976-11-01 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：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：:A new computerized system for the allocation of pre-registration house-officer appointments to medical graduates at the Welsh National School of Medicine is described. The need to withdraw an earlier system, used through much of the 1970s, is explained, and the advantages possessed by the new system are discussed. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Johns KA,Dean CE

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：PURPOSE:The use of medical students as standardized patients in a performance assessment of pain evaluation was studied. METHODS:Fifty-two pairs of second-year medical students participated. One student portrayed a patient presenting with cancer pain and was interviewed by the other medical student. The student-patien...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mavis BE,Ogle KS,Lovell KL,Madden LM

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Medical students on an in-patient service and residents working in an ambulatory care clinic have regularly evaluated their clinical tutors over the 5 years 1985-1989. Both groups of raters reliably and predictably evaluated their tutors and both emphasize between-tutor comparisons more than actual rating values for i...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McLeod PJ,James CA,Abrahamowicz M

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:We developed a 1-hour teaching seminar for medical students on anti-smoking health promotion for adolescents. We report the development of the programme and a performance-based evaluation. AIM:To develop a seminar for medical students with the objective of improving medical student inquiry into smoking and ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Roseby R,Marks MK,Conn J,Sawyer SM

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Positive interpersonal relationships between teachers and learners increase the quality of learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate psychological size (perceived status) and psychological distance (perceived emotional connectedness) in medical teaching interactions and their impact on the teach...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Vaughn LM,Baker RC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Internationally, there are a number of universities at which medical and dental education programmes share common elements. There are no studies about the experiences of medical and dental students enrolled in different programmes who share significant amounts of learning and teaching. METHODS:Semi-structur...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Ajjawi R,Hyde S,Roberts C,Nisbet G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effectiveness of a stress reduction elective on Year 2 medical students and to assess the sustainability of any noted improvement. METHODS:A new elective entitled 'Mind-Body Medicine: an Experiential Elective' was offered to Year 2 medical students. It was based on a course developed by the Ce...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Finkelstein C,Brownstein A,Scott C,Lan YL

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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