abstract：:Many epidemiological studies have shown the magnitude and seriousness of mental disorders in developing countries. However, mental health care remains unsatisfactory owing to lack of skilled manpower and many other social and medical priorities. General practitioners and other health personnel can significantly help i...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Khandelwal SK,Workneh F

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of courses tends to emphasize individual teacher behaviour and/or student reaction to the course. To avoid this approach a technique to determine student expectations and the degree to which the expectations were or were not met by the course was used. In addition, student perceptions of laboratory teaching...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Rosinski EF,Hill PM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the feasibility of training all clinical teachers in psychiatry to teach interviewing skills to medical students, 24 (unselected clinicians were assigned to one of four different training methods. They received either experiential or didactic instruction, and their initial teaching sessions were either superv...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Naji SA,Maguire GP,Fairbairn SA,Goldberg DP,Faragher EB

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1979, the College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria embarked on a new curriculum, which places more emphasis on primary health care in line with the needs of the country. This paper discusses one aspect of the primary health care course, family planning, which involves teaching a practical subject to a large number of st...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Olukoya AA,Oyediran MA

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：: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：:This study investigates (1) the behavioural patterns, performance and attitudes to dentistry and (2) the personality traits, in male and female dental students (n = 219) studying at Cardiff Dental School. The first part deals with the results of a questionnaire investigating aspects of the students' training course, i...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Reeve PE,Watson CJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In achieving a more effective use of resources in the National Health Service (NHS), the medical profession has a role to play by improving cost efficiency in clinical practice. This role implies that doctors should have some knowledge of medical costs. In order to determine the extent of this knowledge, sixty-seven h...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Fowkes FG

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the personality of the dentist in the dental treatment of the anxious patient has been recognized for some time. However, there has been little research into the emotional reactions of dental students in similar stressful situations. This investigation, using specific psychological tests, examined th...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Freeman RE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether admission interviews could differentiate applicants on their personal qualities (such as integrity, empathy and commitment) 456 applicants from two medical schools were tested on the Defining Issues Test (DIT), which measures the amount of principled or post-conventional moral reasoning. No differ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Benor DE,Notzer N,Sheehan TJ,Norman GR

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a new educational scheme introduced in Malta in 1978, university students spend half of the academic year studying and the other half as workers in various departments. During their work phase, students designed and made working models as teaching aids for the study of physiology. The value of these models was asse...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Abu-Sitta SA,Shalaby MA,Hajek J

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：: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：:This paper describes a teaching programme, for use in general practice vocational training, which provides a theoretical and practical framework for exploring key aspects of the consultation with trainees. A particular emphasis is on the educational or 'cognitive' outcomes of the consultation and skills for improving ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Boulton M,Griffiths J,Hall D,McIntyre M,Oliver B,Woodward J

更新日期：1984-07-01 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 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

abstract：:An elective modules programme in the behavioural sciences was designed for the undergraduate medical curriculum at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The programme provides a mechanism by which a broad range of behavioural science content can be introduced into the curriculum without increased allocation o...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sachs LA,McPherson C,Knopp W

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the competence of rotating residents in handling clinical problems, falling under the purview of the major clinical disciplines, which they come across during their routine work. Three hundred and one rotating residents (55% of the total) who graduated in June 1981 from the...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Al-Chalabi TS,Al-Na'ama MR,Al-Thamery DM,Alkafajei AM,Mustafa GY,Joseph G,Sugathan TN

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to provide some insight into the manner and degree of students' acquisition of practical skills. One hundred and fifty-two of a total of 166 students in a medical clerkship during the first clinical year answered a questionnaire. The questionnaire contained fifty-eight different laboratory test...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Hunskaar S,Seim SH

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：:Primary health care has been held to be the foundation of any rational health system. The principle was fully endorsed by the Alma-Ata Conference in 1978, and has become the main policy of the World Health Organization. Important implications are involved for the education and training of doctors and other health care...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Walton HJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although computer marking of MCQ papers is common practice and is popular because of its accuracy, speed and the fact that detailed statistical analysis can be carried out painlessly, there is still a major role for hand-scoring. A computer and computer time are not always immediately available and some form of data c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Anderson J

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：:Medical students' levels of anxiety under different conditions of stress were investigated, as well as the stability of anxiety ratings from one examination to another. After completing an end-of-term psychiatry examination, fourth-year medical students at Monash University were asked to score the Visual Analogue Scal...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kidson M,Hornblow A

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:In order to provide "horizontal" integration of related clinical subjects, a combined teaching course in community medicine, general practice, geriatric medicine and mental health has been devised. The course lasts 12 weeks and is divided between joint teaching of topics of common interest and clinical clerkships in i...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Stout RW,Irwin WG

更新日期：1982-05-01 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：: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：:Despite concern over the concentration on science in pre-medical education and the selection of medical students in the United States, no major changes have been made. The present study compares attrition rates and clinical competence levels of medical students who vary in pre-medical training, age, and sex, in order ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Herman MW,Veloski JJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two house-physicians filled in a questionnaire concerning the care of self-poisoning patients with special emphasis on training and attitudes. These recently qualified doctors dealt with large numbers of such patients and expressed dissatisfaction with their training in this respect. Hostile attitudes towards t...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Creed FH,Pfeffer JM

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:This paper has reported some aspects of an analysis of the correlates of success in candidates' first attempts at the postgraduate psychiatric examinations of the R.A.N.Z.C.P. These are developed to suggest some attributes which selectors of trainees could take into account. Profitable future areas for research are de...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mellsop G

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:This paper describes a strategy for helping students to learn about laboratory and radiological investigations in diagnosis and management, and to make decisions about the use of investigations, taking into account such features as safety, patient comfort and cost. Learning takes place through the use of a programmed ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Clarke RM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978, the second-year pre-clinical Behavioural Sciences course at Monash University Medical School was restructured to improve monitoring of, and feedback on, the development of interpersonal relationships between individual students and individual old age pensioners they were studying. Results indicate that integr...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Jones KV,Hornblow AR,Tiller JW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to clarify the goals of the clinical general practitioner attachment scheme at the University of Queensland. Emphasis was placed on comparing the aims of the academics, the general practitioner preceptors and the students. Prior to the 2-week attachments students selected a different set of g...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Colditz GA,Munro JG,Sheehan M

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inconsistency of the marking in clinical examinations is a well documented problem. This project identified some of the factors responsible for this inconsistency. A standardized rating situation was devised. Five students were videotaped as they performed part of a physical examination on simulated patients. Eigh...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Newble DI,Hoare J,Sheldrake PF

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the importance of psycho-social factors in medicine is increasingly stressed, it is believed that attitudes towards psycho-social issues in medicine should be taken into account in the selection of medical students. The first step of a longitudinal study concerning the impact of medical studies on the students of a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Streit U

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews some of the problems confronting medical education in Spain and some of the steps which have been taken to improve the current situation which is of serious concern to the Government, the Medical Colleges, the University, and the community generally. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Vilardell F

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00