Health Sciences Research in Medical Education

Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education

The proposed study will measure and characterize early retinal vessel changes in persons with diabetes and persons at high risk of diabetes (impaired fasting glucose [IFG], impaired glucose tolerance [IGT], and the metabolic syndrome) in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab), a population-based study of risk factors and complications of diabetes. Specifi c Aims of the s...

Applied Education of Spiritual Health in Iranian Medical Sciences

Introduction: Spiritual health in medical education literature is considered as an intrinsic and essential element of a culture-centered concept which exclusively occurs in every society. Applying spiritual health in the education and health systems is subject to proper training in this area. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explain the factors affecting the applied education of spiri...

The 'medical humanities' in health sciences education in South Africa.

A new masters-level course, 'Medicine and the Arts" will be offered in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, setting a precedent for interdisciplinary education in the field of medical humanities in South Africa. The humanities and social sciences have always been an implicit part of undergraduate and postgraduate education in the health sciences, but increasingly they are becoming an explicit a...

Educational Technologies in Medical and Health Sciences Education

Qualitative Research in PBL in Health Sciences Education: A Review

INTRODUCTION Problem-based learning (PBL) has had a profound impact on education worldwide. While the implementation of PBL has gradually extended from clinical to nonclinical disciplines (Lu, Bridges, & Hmelo-Silver, 2014), the majority of research studies in PBL have been conducted in health sciences educational contexts such as medicine (Schmidt, Ver-meulen, & van der Molen, 2006) and dentis...