Examining the impact of audience response systems on student performance in anatomy education: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Background and Aims: Electronic audience response systems (ARSs) offer the potential to enhance learning and improve performance. However, objective research investigating the use of ARSs in undergraduate education has so far produced mixed, inconclusive
Aka, Justine +7 more
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Portfolio in undergraduate medical education: A medical student’s perspective
Dhivya Subramanian
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National survey of clinical communication assessment in medical education in the United Kingdom (UK). [PDF]
BACKGROUND: All medical schools in the UK are required to be able to provide evidence of competence in clinical communication in their graduates. This is usually provided by summative assessment of clinical communication, but there is considerable ...
Doherty, Eva M +4 more
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Is it time for integration of surgical skills simulation into the United Kingdom undergraduate medical curriculum? A perspective from King’s College London School of Medicine [PDF]
PURPOSE: Changes in undergraduate medical curricula, combined with reforms in postgraduate education, have training implications for surgical skills acquisition in a climate of reduced clinical exposure.
Hamaoui, K +5 more
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Quality assurance of medical education: a case study from Switzerland []
[english] In the light of ongoing changes and challenges in the European health systems which also have significant implications for undergraduate medical education, the present paper describes the accreditation of medical education programmes in ...
Heusser, Rolf, Schirlo, Christian
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A Conscience Sensitive Approach To Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes [PDF]
An I.U. Conscience Project and HELP Collaboration. The article describes models for teaching ethics and caring attitudes to undergraduate medical students in both formal and informal medical education curriculum.
Gaffney, Margaret M. +2 more
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Using item response theory to explore the psychometric properties of extended matching questions examination in undergraduate medical education [PDF]
BACKGROUND: As assessment has been shown to direct learning, it is critical that the examinations developed to test clinical competence in medical undergraduates are valid and reliable. The use of extended matching questions (EMQ) has been advocated to
A Van Alphen +35 more
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Substance Misuse Education for Physicians: Why Older People are Important. [PDF]
This perspective article focuses on the need for training and education for undergraduate medical students on substance-related disorders, and describes initiatives undertaken in the United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, United States (US), and Norway to ...
Broers, B +12 more
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Understanding undergraduate student perceptions of mental health, mental well-being and help-seeking behaviour [PDF]
Funding: Medical School, University of St AndrewsDespite relatively high levels of psychological distress, many students in higher education do not seek help for difficulties.
Laidlaw, Anita Helen +2 more
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