The traditional, subject-based medical curriculum in Colombia has been mainly focused on the biomedical model proposed by Flexner in 1910. This means learning outcomes or competences are framed on curative care and the specialization of physicians ...
Gustavo-Adolfo Quintero +3 more
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Medical student selection process enhanced by improving selection algorithms and changing the focus of interviews in Australia: a descriptive study [PDF]
Purpose The study investigates the efficacy of new features introduced to the selection process for medical school at the University of New South Wales, Australia: (1) considering the relative ranks rather than scores of the Undergraduate Medicine and ...
Boaz Shulruf +2 more
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Historical High Complexity Neurosurgery Development of One of the Poorest Brazilian Regions
Human development rates in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, called “Misery Valley,” are among the lowest in the country, not to mention the often precarious psychosocial realities that daily contact with these families reveals ...
Silvio Pereira Ramos Junior +4 more
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Exploration of examinees’ traits that affect the score of Korean Medical Licensing Examination [PDF]
Purpose: It aims to identify the effect of five variables to score of the Korean Medical Licensing Examinations (KMLE) for three consecutive years from 2011 to 2013.
Mi Kyoung Yim
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Profile and Career Decisions of First Year Medical Students Studying at a College Located in western India [PDF]
Introduction:The attitude of the students and the reasons for choosing a career, medicine in particular are of importance as input for educators to create a medical graduate.Objectives:To get an account of medical students’ reasons for choosing medicine ...
Shobha Misra , Nilesh Fichadiya
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National Competency Frameworks for Medical Graduates: Is it Time for the “Sudanmeds”?
Competency-based medical education has emerged recently as a novel model of medical training driven by its ability to reconcile the desired attributes in future physicians and address the overarching and demanding issues of the discipline in this century.
Ahmad AbdulAzeem Abdullah
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The impact of socially accountable health professional education: Systematic review
Medical education is socially responsible for a global educational movement that transforms the development and presentation of medical schools in higher education.
Soheila Mahdavynia +7 more
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Medical student selection interviews: insights into non-verbal observable communications: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Purpose Interviews play a crucial role in the medical school selection process, although little is known about interviewers’ non-verbal observable communications (NoVOC) during the interviews.
Pin-Hsiang Huang +4 more
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Background: Medical graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have a lower intention to become GPs compared with other UK medical graduates. It is not clear to what extent this difference is present on admission to medical school.
Richard Darnton +7 more
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Effects of early clinical and basic laboratory exposure program on premedical students: a questionnaire survey [PDF]
Background Because premed students do not take courses related to medicine during their first 2 years, they cannot establish their identity as students at medical schools, making it difficult for them to set goals as future doctors. We conducted an early
Kyu Hyang Cho +6 more
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