BACKGROUND As part of the process to develop more community-oriented medical teaching in Vietnam, eight medical schools prepared a set of standard learning objectives with attention to the needs of a doctor working with the community. Because they were prepared based on government documents and the opinions of the teachers, it was necessary to check them with doctors who had already graduated a...

Introduction: One of the essential skills which helps healthcare management students succeed in leadership is development of critical thinking skills during their education. Our study objective was to assess critical thinking skills among healthcare management students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in 2016. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among 9...

BACKGROUND The computer and information technology (IT) revolution have transformed modern health care systems in the areas of communication, storage, retrieval of medical information and teaching, but little is known about IT skill and use in most developing nations. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study has been to evaluate the reported preparedness and disposition by medical students in a Niger...

Purpose With the recent uptake of competency-based medical education, there has been extensive study of objective skill evaluation for needle-based and laparoscopic interventions on phantoms simulating human anatomy. In these contexts, it has been shown that skill evaluation metrics can distinguish novice from expert operators [1]. Upon further validation, these metrics could be used to supplem...

BACKGROUND Drug abuse is now-a-days one of the gravest social harms. Recent years have experienced a drastic rise in drug abuse among school and university students. Thus, the need for special attention to the issue is deemed important. The present study was conducted with the aim of assessing the impact of life skills training on promotion of drug abuse preventive behaviors. METHODS This fie...

INTRODUCTION There is paucity in the research on transfer validity of arthroscopic simulator training. The aim of this article is to determine whether skills derived from arthroscopic simulation are transferrable to the operating theatre and retained over time. METHODS A systematic review with rigorous criteria to identify the highest level of evidence available was carried out. The studies w...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate correlations between medical student scores on 4 examinations: the written examination, clinical clerkship examination, clinical skill assessment, and graduation examination. METHODS Scores for 51 students who entered Daegu Catholic Medical School in 2005 on the written examination, clinical clerkship examination, clinical skill assessment, and...

Introduction. Students’ satisfaction reflects the effectiveness of all aspects of education. Achieving clinical skill is a key process about medical education. For this reason it is necessary to build up a place similar to the hospital called Clinical Skill Lab (CSL). The aim of this study was to evaluate the medical students’ satisfaction from clinical Skill Lab of Tabriz for finding educatio...