New perspectives - approaches to medical education at four new UK Medical Schools [PDF]
To create more UK doctors, the government has funded an increase in medical student numbers of 57% (from 3749 to 5894)1 between 1998 and 2005. This has been done by increasing student places at existing medical schools; creating shortened programmes open
Campion, Peter +3 more
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Medical student confidence to care for a dying patient and their family: a systematic review [PDF]
Background: The General Medical Council expects medical graduates to care for dying patients with skill, clinical judgement and compassion. UK surveys continually demonstrate low confidence and increasing distress amongst junior doctors when providing ...
Llewellyn, Carrie +4 more
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Health care professionals' perceptions towards lifelong learning in palliative care for general practitioners: a focus group study [PDF]
Background: There is a growing need for palliative care. The majority of palliative patients prefer their general practitioner (GP) to organize their palliative home care. General practitioners need a range of competences to perform this task.
Deveugele, Myriam +5 more
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Undergraduate medical education. [PDF]
Pressures from students and teachers, from professional bodies, and from changes in the way health care is delivered are all forcing a rethink of how medical students should be taught. These pressures may be more intense in London but are not confined to it.
L, Rees, J, Wass
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Incorporating Environmental Health into Pediatric Medical and Nursing Education [PDF]
Pediatric medical and nursing education currently lacks the environmental health content necessary to appropriately prepare pediatric health care professionals to prevent, recognize, manage, and treat environmental-exposure–related disease.
Allen Dearry +11 more
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GIFs vs Pictures in 'How to Use a Slit Lamp' Teaching: Comparing Medical Student Perceptions [PDF]
Background: Videos have been shown to improve learning outcomes, satisfaction and grab learners’ attention for medical education. The aim of this study was to look at whether replacing static images with short, looped videos (home-made GIFs) in a ...
Christopher Ashton +4 more
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Health economics education in undergraduate medical training : introducing the health economics education (HEe) website [PDF]
In the UK, the General Medical Council clearly stipulates that upon completion of training, medical students should be able to discuss the principles underlying the development of health and health service policy, including issues relating to health ...
Frew, Emma +2 more
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Fostering international undergraduate medical education
The severe lack of human resources in the health care field in many countries has resulted in avid interest in global undergraduate medical education.
James D Smith +2 more
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Self-monitoring accuracy does not increase throughout undergraduate medical education [PDF]
Context: Accurate self-assessment of one's performace on a moment-by-moment basis (ie, accurate self-monitoring) is vital for the self-regulation of practising physicians and indeed for the effective regulation of self-directed learning during medical ...
Hautz, W., Kämmer, J., März, M.
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Background: As health care delivery increasingly requires providers to cross international borders, medical students at McGill University, Canada, developed a multidirectional exchange program with Haiti and Rwanda.
Malik Elharram +5 more
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