Looking to the future: health professions education in Texas.

Digital games in health professions education: Advantages, disadvantages, and game engagement factors

Background: The application of digital educational games in health professions education is on expansion and game-based education usage is increasing. Methods: Diverse databases were searched and the related papers were reviewed. Results: Considering the growing popularity of educational games in medical education, we attempted to classify their benefits, flaws, and engaging factors. Conclus...

Pivotal exigencies of dental services and related professions, in COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

Background: The advent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (so-called SARS-CoV-2) causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (so-called COVID-19) occurred in Dec. 2019 in Wuhan, China. Having an inconceivable worldwide contagion, the outbreak was labeled a pandemic by the WHO. Dental services and related professions (including dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists and the personne...

Lifelong learning along the education and career continuum: metaanalysis of studies in health professions

Introduction: Lifelong learning is an integral part of healthprofessionals’ maintenance of competence. Several studies haveexamined the orientation toward lifelong learning at variousstages of the education and career continuum; however, none haslooked at changes throughout training and practice. The objectiveof the present study was to determine if there are differencesbetween groups defined b...

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Health Professions Students Academic and Personal Motivations for Using Social Media

As 72% of online adults are using social media, it is vital for health professions schools and institutions to understand and adapt to the online needs of health professions students (HPS). This research was designed to examine how HPS are utilizing the Internet and online activity, specifically focusing on social media, and to determine HPS’ motivations for using social media. In 2012, 4,370 h...