abstract：:During their first training period in general practice the authors felt that they did not encounter the balanced workload which is the foundation for learning to be a GP. Previous studies confirmed the existence of differences in overall and specific workload between trainees and trainers. From their own experience an...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Weeda G,Hutter AW,Groenier KH,Schuling J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In October 1994 a project was initiated by the General Practice Continuing Medical Education Tutors in the Department of General Practice at Sheffield University. The project sought to evaluate the efficiency (effort expended) and effectiveness (distance travelled) of a model of continuing professional development for...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Challis M,Mathers NJ,Howe AC,Field NJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay examines the background and implementation of the statutory requirement that each medical graduate in Great Britain must spend a pre-registration year in hospital training before full registration can be effected. It looks briefly at the French and USA 'internship', and then describes the British situation ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Bynum WF

更新日期：1997-01-01 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 undergraduate medical curriculum at Linköping was changed and problem-based learning introduced in 1986. As a consequence the need for new examinations arose. To assess the students' consultation skills, ability to use theory in practice and skills in problem-based learning, a new examination called 'phase examina...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Foldevi M,Svedin CG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to gain an understanding of the concerns of those in control in Canadian Family Medicine, and to gain an understanding of the experiences of trainees in the traditional postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) and in a flexible PGY-2 at the University of Toronto (U of T) Department of Family and Communi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Shafir MS,Wilkins K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many doctors rate themselves as ineffective smoking cessation counsellors. It is logical to initiate training efforts with medical students. We incorporated smoking history-taking in the physical diagnosis course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill using a simple method to teach smoking history-taking s...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Boehlecke B,Sperber AD,Kowlowitz V,Becker M,Contreras A,McGaghie WC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical student wastage leads to adverse emotional and social consequences for individual students and financial difficulties and morale problems for medical schools. This study retrospectively assessed the records of all students at Leeds School of Medicine who left the course prematurely between 1983 and 1992. The d...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Simpson KH,Budd K

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many factors play a part in determining the performance of students in examinations, but the extent to which students use library facilities does not appear to have been recently considered as a factor, in medicine or in any other academic subject. In this study, the number of books borrowed from the library by underg...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Brazier H,Conroy RM

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:This paper describes the development and structure of an Electronic Study Guide for Oncology (LETSGO) for undergraduate medical students. LETSGO is aimed at clinical students learning about cancer. The subject of the guide is breast cancer and learning objectives cover structure and function, behavioural science, publ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mooney GA,Bligh JG,Leinster SF,Warenius HM

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:This study was undertaken to measure the prevalence of psychological morbidity, and the nature and source of stress, in first year medical students. Two hundred and four first year medical students at a university in the north of England were sent a postal, self-report questionnaire. They were asked to complete the Ge...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Guthrie EA,Black D,Shaw CM,Hamilton J,Creed FH,Tomenson B

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-item questionnaire on attitudes to psychosocial issues in medicine was administered to final-year students in the Faculties of Medicine (n = 104), Pharmacy (n = 57) and Arts and Social Sciences (n = 75) of the University of Benin. The responses given were analysed by the summation and Cornell scalogram techniques...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Nnodim JO,Osuji CU

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality characteristics and lifestyle variables were assessed in two cohorts of second-year medical students at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK as part of a psychopharmacology 'teach-in' in 1993 and 1994. The pooled sample included 186 students: 77 men, 109 women, mean age 20.4 +/- 1.8 years. Measures in...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Ashton CH,Kamali F

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing numbers of general practitioners wishing to provide child health surveillance during the 1980s and the expected further increase with the 1990 General Practice Contract, a course in child health surveillance was developed. The content of the course was determined by a needs assessment of Welsh general ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Houston HL,Reilly TA,Sibert JR,Davies DP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated in response to the availabilty of unlimited access to MEDLINE via the PaperChase interface at the host institution. The goal of the study was to analyse the usage of MEDLINE by medical students during their third-year clinical clerkship in paediatrics. This was achieved by first giving them a ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Schwartz DG,Schwartz SA

更新日期：1995-03-01 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 General Medical Council has issued a call for an increase in community-based medical education, and many medical schools are enhancing the community component of their curricula. This paper uses the experience of a community-based junior medical firm to explore the potential costs, and highlight some of the unreso...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Murray E,Jinks V,Modell M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its certification programme, which assesses the readiness of foreign medical graduates to enter graduate medical education programmes in the USA, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is involved in a number of other programmes in international medical education. These include...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Miranda M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central premise of this paper is that medical education today is being driven by intellectual and social imperatives to make fundamental changes in the way it prepares students to be the doctors of tomorrow. Fully aware that over the past 50 years at least eight major national commissions in the USA alone have mad...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Bloom SW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By providing injecting equipment to drug misusers, community pharmacists in the UK may become involved in preventing the spread of HIV via the intravenous route. Over 60% of pharmacy graduates from the School of Pharmacy enter community pharmacy and, as part of their undergraduate course, attend a series of lectures a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sheridan J,Bates IP,Webb DG,Barber ND

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An instrument has been developed to assess tutor performance in problem-based tutorial groups. This tutor evaluation questionnaire consists of 13 statements reflecting the tutor's behaviour. The statements are based on a description of the tasks set for the tutor. This study reports results on the validity and reliabi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dolmans DH,Wolfhagen IH,Schmidt HG,van der Vleuten CP

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:Recent graduates (1989-1990) of a traditional school of Chinese medicine were assessed by observers using a 10-item scale for professional behaviour in the non-cognitive realm. Overall, 10.7% of the graduates had low ratings on this scale. Of those who scored in the top two quartiles on this scale, 71.4% reported that...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Lu YH,Meng XY,Liu X

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report considers the implications for medical education of a global survey of the knowledge, behaviour and attitudes of medical students regarding tobacco. This was conducted in 42 countries derived from all continents. A total of 9326 students (44% women) from 51 medical schools replied anonymously to a multiple...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Crofton JW,Fréour PP,Tessier JF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We instituted two thanatology seminars for medical students and residents which emphasized feelings more than objective data. The seminars began with students filling out a death certificate on themselves. Eighty-four per cent predicted that their own probable cause of death would be from an acute illness. Discussion ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McFarland KF,Rollins EC,Gonzalez MF,Rhoades DR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:British medical school teachers of medical statistics aspire to teach statistical concepts without requiring medical students to undertake every statistical technique in the book. In the typical course of 20 to 30 hours, about 50 topics are taught, usually requiring the student to perform a technique. In a survey of c...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Dixon RA

更新日期：1994-01-01 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

abstract：:The view, background and motivation of providers of medical education was studied using a structured questionnaire which was sent to all those who organized courses for the Postgraduate Education Allowance in the West of Scotland. Two hundred and twenty-five replies were received from 254 course providers, giving an 8...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Kelly MH,Murray TS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the cueing effects inherent in conventional multiple choice questions (MCQs) present serious limitations, this format continues to dominate testing programmes. The present study was undertaken to estimate the effects of cueing when MCQs are used to test medical students, and to evaluate the reliability, valid...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Veloski JJ,Rabinowitz HK,Robeson MR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical specialties are being intensively reconsidered in the countries of Europe. The important need is for promoting improvement of educational training programmes. Evaluation and improvement of specialist training programmes is the priority and not the setting up of qualifying examinations. The first necessity ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Karle H,Nystrup J,Walton H

更新日期：1993-07-01 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

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：:One hundred and forty-six (93%) of the University of Wales College of Medicine intake of new students completed a personality questionnaire (Cattell 16PF) on registration in October 1988. The students were divided into four groups depending on their academic progress up to and including 2nd MB BCh. Whereas the majorit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Green A,Peters TJ,Webster DJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:This study compared the communication skills of randomly chosen first- and final-year medical students. The intention was to follow up previous research, conducted over 10 years ago, into the effects of the medical curriculum on communication skills. It was hypothesized that there would be little improvement in such s...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Davis H,Nicholaou T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wellcome Tropical Institute has assisted countries in the tropics to establish viable systems of continuing medical education, particularly for young doctors practising in rural areas. As part of this strategy the Institute has developed material for use in distance learning. The first attempt to apply the problem...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Engel CE,Browne E,Nyarango P,Akor S,Khwaja A,Karim AA,Towle A

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical students' attitudes to the elderly were compared at the start and finish of a 5-week clinical attachment in health care of the elderly at the Christchurch School of Medicine. The study investigated students in their first clinical year (fourth year of their medical course) over five terms using a questionnaire...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Sainsbury R,Wilkinson TJ,Smith CW

更新日期：1992-07-01 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