abstract：BACKGROUND:Peer assessment has been demonstrated to be an effective educational intervention for health science students. AIMS:This study aims to give an overview of all instruments or questionnaires for peer assessments used in medical and allied health professional educational settings and their psychometric charact...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Speyer R,Pilz W,Van Der Kruis J,Brunings JW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In problem-based learning (PBL), high-quality discussions are crucial for student learning. The quality of the discussion is affected by the quality of the contributions students make during PBL tutorials. AIM:This study investigated whether students are able to evaluate the activities of their peers in PBL...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Kamp RJ,Dolmans DH,Van Berkel HJ,Schmidt HG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are two drivers for encouraging undergraduate students to undertake rural general practice placements - first, the need to increase the number of clinical placements available and second, the importance of exposing medical students to rural health care as a career choice. This is the first study to exp...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Deaville J,Grant A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in using computer-assisted instruction in medical education, but getting computer-assisted instruction materials used broadly is difficult to achieve. We describe a successful model for the development and maintenance of a specific type of computer-assisted instruction - virtual patients - in m...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Berman NB,Fall LH,Chessman AW,Dell MR,Lang VJ,Leong SL,Nixon LJ,Smith S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide many universities are changing their curricula and introducing integrated problem-based learning (PBL) programs. However, the introduction of a PBL program is a demanding process and requires resources, a lot of planning, and organisation. AIMS:This article aims at providing practical tips for pre...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Azer SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although essay questions are used in the admissions process in many medical schools, there has been little research on how applicants respond to essay questions. AIMS:The purpose of this study was to explore how applicants to medical school approach essay questions used in the selection process. METHODS:Qu...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： White JS,Lemay JF,Brownell K,Lockyer J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Portfolios are highlighted as potential assessment tools for professional competence. Although students' self-reflections are considered to be central in the portfolio, the content of reflections in practice-based portfolios is seldom analysed. AIM:To investigate whether students' reflections include suffic...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Haffling AC,Beckman A,Pahlmblad A,Edgren G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research indicates that university students are interested and active in supporting their learning by using Facebook, a popular social networking website. AIM:This study aimed to add to our understanding of how or how effectively students may be using Facebook for this purpose. METHOD:Researchers su...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Gray K,Annabell L,Kennedy G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child health issues are of high importance in the occupied Palestinian territories, where half of the population are children. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have developed a comprehensive paediatric training programme for primary healthcare providers with the aim of improving child health in the ar...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Morris A,Rudolf M,Halileh S,Odeh J,Bowyer J,Waterston T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social comparison theory is relevant for learning in general. In a clinical context, we examined four hypotheses concerning: preferred other to compare with, preferred direction of comparison, response to social comparison and influence of personal social comparison orientation (SCO). AIM:To investigate the...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Raat J,Kuks J,Cohen-Schotanus J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is generally accepted that assessment steers learning, this is generally viewed as an undesirable side effect. Recent evidence suggests otherwise. Experimental studies have shown that periodic formative assessments can enhance learning over equivalent time spent in study (Roediger & Karpicke 2006). However...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Norman G,Neville A,Blake JM,Mueller B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether the use of 3D anatomical models is helpful to students and enhances their anatomical knowledge. METHODS:First year undergraduate students on the speech therapy or hearing aid practitioner courses attended either a lecture alone or a lecture followed by a 3D anatomy based tutorial, the latter w...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Venail F,Deveze A,Lallemant B,Guevara N,Mondain M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Curriculum developers have a wide choice of assessment methods in all aspects of medical education including the specific area of medical knowledge. When selecting the appropriate tool, there is an increasing literature to provide a robust evidence base for developments or decisions. AIM:As a new medical sc...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Freeman AC,Ricketts C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Personalizing computer-based instructional text with a conversational rather than formal style has been found to enhance learning substantially. AIM:An experimental study investigated whether a conversational style would enhance learning anatomy terminology from paper-based materials. METHODS:Students were...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Ginns P,Fraser J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A previous study found that in Austria 50.3% physicians (m: 43.2%, f: 58.6%) have not attained their chosen specialty. We aimed to explore the policy - and attitude-related reasons for gender disparity in training post allocation. METHODS:This cross-sectional study used a quantitative and a qualitative metho...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Spiegel W,Kamenski G,Sibitz I,Schneider B,Maier M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Doctor performance assessments based on multi-source feedback (MSF) are increasingly central in professional self-regulation. Research has shown that simple MSF is often unproductive. It has been suggested that MSF should be delivered by a facilitator and combined with a portfolio. AIMS:To compare three met...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Overeem K,Lombarts MJ,Arah OA,Klazinga NS,Grol RP,Wollersheim HC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Real patients are generally recruited to participate in assessment of medical students all over the world in their clinical examinations. In the past, such voluntary patients were taken for granted. However, this is no longer true nowadays. METHOD:A questionnaire survey was conducted on 72 patients who participate...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Gandhi A,Leung GK,Patil NG,Wong J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An educational game is 'an instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.' A number of studies have suggested beneficial effects of educational games in medical education. AIM:The objective of this study was to systematically review the effect of educa...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Akl EA,Pretorius RW,Sackett K,Erdley WS,Bhoopathi PS,Alfarah Z,Schünemann HJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge assessment outcomes were compared between and across students on our Graduate Entry to Medicine (GEP) course at Newcastle (UK) and the conventional 5-year programme. Results show that Newcastle GEP students perform significantly better in these assessments than both 5-year programme students, and graduate st...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Price R,Wright SR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The teaching of anatomy to medical undergraduates continues to develop. Medical imaging can accurately demonstrate anatomy. 'disect' is a computer program which manipulates and reconstructs real CT images in 3-D. AIM:To implement and assess a novel computer-based imaging resource. METHODS:Third-year underg...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Tam MD,Hart AR,Williams SM,Holland R,Heylings D,Leinster S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The issue of professional behavior in medicine has been extensively discussed in the medical literature and clarity regarding what constitutes professional behavior, and strategies for assessing professionalism have begun to emerge. AIM:To address the information gap on effective strategies for teaching pro...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Rademacher R,Simpson D,Marcdante K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. This paper describes the reforms that took place at the medical school of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) between 2005 and 2008 and the institutional self review process that accompanied these reforms. RESUL...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Maccarrick G,Kelly C,Conroy R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer-based learning is a tool that, when designed appropriately, can be used to effectively meet worthy educational goals. AIMS:This study aimed to compare acceptance and effectiveness of a tutored computer-based practical course (CPC) with a traditional biochemical laboratory experiment in pre-clinical...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Kröncke KD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In medical curricula, difficult topics are often presented to students with varied backgrounds and therefore at different levels of preparation to learn and assimilate the information. AIM:A method is described to create an interactive primer for the study of a basic neuroscience topic to improve student pr...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Henkel CK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competency-based medical education (CBME), by definition, necessitates a robust and multifaceted assessment system. Assessment and the judgments or evaluations that arise from it are important at the level of the trainee, the program, and the public. When designing an assessment system for CBME, medical education lead...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Holmboe ES,Sherbino J,Long DM,Swing SR,Frank JR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined teaching teamwork skills to first-year medical students. Teamwork skills focused on verbal communication in PBL-tutorial sessions and in healthcare teams. AIMS:The aim was to find out how to teach teamwork skills to first-year medical students and how to motivate them to learn these skil...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Aarnio M,Nieminen J,Pyörälä E,Lindblom-Ylänne S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the validity of students' ratings of instruction has been documented, several student and course characteristics may be related to the ratings students give their instructors. AIMS:The purpose of this study was to examine student ratings obtained from the Universal Student Ratings of Instruction (U...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Donnon T,Delver H,Beran T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dental educators complain that students struggle to apply what they have learnt theoretically in the clinical context. This paper is premised on the assumption that there is a relationship between conceptual thinking and clinical reasoning. AIMS:The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding t...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： McMillan WJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Producing a medical profession which is fit for the demands and expectations of society involves ensuring that practitioners learn what it means to behave in a 'professional' way. Codes of professional conduct have been developed for medical students in the UK, but the literature on how medical schools actua...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Howe A,Miles S,Wright S,Leinster S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ability to deliver the traditional apprenticeship method of teaching clinical skills is becoming increasingly more difficult as a result of greater demands in health care delivery, increasing student numbers and changing medical curricula. Serious consequences globally include: students not covering al...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Régo P,Peterson R,Callaway L,Ward M,O'Brien C,Donald K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Student ratings have dominated as the primary and, frequently, only measure of teaching performance at colleges and universities for the past 50 years. Recently, there has been a trend toward augmenting those ratings with other data sources to broaden and deepen the evidence base. The 360 degrees multisource...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Berk RA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To look at the characteristics of Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM) using data from the UK, Brazil, Chile and the Netherlands, and to examine the reliability and characteristics of PHEEM, especially how the three PHEEM subscales fitted with factors derived statistically from the data set...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Wall D,Clapham M,Riquelme A,Vieira J,Cartmill R,Aspegren K,Roff S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Professionalism is now an explicit part of the medical school curricula. AIM:To examine the components that are part of developing professionalism during the Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) experience, a 9-month rotation in a rural community during the third year of medical school. METHODS:Two res...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Zink T,Halaas GW,Brooks KD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In their first clinical year 25% of Western Australia's medical students undertake a clinical longitudinal integrated clerkship in rural and remote Western Australia. Annual evaluations are undertaken. METHOD:All students, academic and administrative staff employed by the university were interviewed. Qual...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Denz-Penhey H,Murdoch JC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Student Selected Components (SSCs) are one of the more innovative recent developments in medical education. Initially established in the UK in the 1990s in response to the General Medical Council's recommendations in Tomorrow's Doctors (1993), they provide students with a significant element of choice and depth of stu...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Riley SC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Until recently, Japanese legislative guidelines dictated that undergraduate clinical training consisted of students' observations of clinicians' work. In 2006, Tokyo Medical and Dental University initiated a reform of their traditional undergraduate clinical curriculum. The reform integrated students into pa...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Farrell SE,Takada K,Armstrong EG,Tanaka Y,Aretz HT

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical reasoning skills are essential for medical practice. Problem-based collaborative learning via the internet might prove useful in imparting these skills. AIM:This randomized study assessed whether web-based learning (WBL) is superior to face-to-face problem-based learning (PBL) in the setting of a 6...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Raupach T,Muenscher C,Anders S,Steinbach R,Pukrop T,Hege I,Tullius M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulation! The deans talk about its use in medical education regularly. But how can it be used to teach the basic sciences to first- and second-year medical students? This article will help answer that question by providing information about various types of simulation activities being used in medical education and e...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Rosen KR,McBride JM,Drake RL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This pilot study is based on observational research of lecturing skills during the annual Oral Medicine course at the Milan Dentistry School. AIMS:Our goals were to explore how teachers exhibited desirable lecturing skills, to observe how their attitudes and lecturing skills affected students' attention and...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Visioli S,Lodi G,Carrassi A,Zannini L

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three major issues drive the cross-cultural use of virtual patients (VPs): an increased mobility of healthcare professionals, students and patients; limited resources for developing VPs; and emerging standards for the exchange of VPs across institutions. Many students are trained in countries other than where they wer...

journal_title：Medical teacher

authors： Fors UG,Muntean V,Botezatu M,Zary N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00