Diversity of the physician workforce: Specialty choice decisions during medical school.
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDespite efforts to increase the overall diversity of the medical student body, some medical specialties have a less diverse applicant pool based on both gender and race than would be expected based on medical graduate demographics.ObjectivesTo ...
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Implementing Medical Education Continuous Quality Improvement Using Design‐Based Research [PDF]
, 2020 The goal of this study is to present efficient measures to improve the quality of medical education through using a developed and applied continuous quality improvement (CQI) model suitable for medical education.
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Hospice and Palliative Care Education for Medical Students in Korea [PDF]
, 2020 Hospice and palliative care (HPC) education is an essential component of undergraduate medical education. Since February 4th, 2018, withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment at the end of life (EOL) has been permitted in Korea as put forth by
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Where Are the Women in Radiation Oncology? A Cross-Sectional Multi-Specialty Comparative Analysis
Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2021 Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the growth of women within the general radiation oncology (RO) workforce in comparison to the growth among other medical specialties.
Bismarck Odei, MD +9 more
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Course on Death and Dying for Medical Students [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of modern medicine is to prolong life by fighting death. Doctors have traditionally believed that this was an ethical good deed. The negative connotation surrounding death has led to the avoidance of terminally ill patients.
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Social Accountability of Medical Schools: Concept and Implementation [PDF]
, 2019 Medical schools have been working to produce competent doctors and improve the quality of care by introducing and implementing new curricula and innovative teaching and learning methods.
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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009 The National Health Insurance (NHI) covers more than 98% of the 22 million people in Taiwan. Referral is not mandated, therefore, competition among specialties exists in caring for preschool children.
Ming-Chih Lin, Mei-Su Lai
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Application of Experiential Learning Theory to Medical Education [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examined the principles of experiential learning theory (ELT) relevant to learning from experience and introduces examples which were applied to medical education from a theoretical perspective. The experiential learning theory encompasses the
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Diagnostic and Clinical-Epidemiological Insights into Pompe Disease: A Retrospective Analysis at a Reference Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism [PDF]
Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and ScreeningPompe disease (PD) is characterized by an inborn metabolic error resulting from the deficiency of the enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase, leading to glycogen accumulation within lysosomes. The severity of the disease is related to the age of symptom onset and
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Social Cognitive Theory and Medical Education: How Social Interactions Can Inform Learning [PDF]
, 2020 The structures and processes of medical education have changed little since the publication of Flexner’s report, which stressed the scientific orientation of medical education and the curricular structure of 2 years of formal knowledge education and 2 ...
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