BACKGROUND Practical experience with clinical cases has played an important role in supporting the learning of clinical reasoning. However, learning through practical experience involves complex processes difficult to be captured by students. This study aimed to examine the effects of a computer-based cognitive-mapping approach that helps students to externalize the reasoning process and the kn...

Knowledge in history-taking has increased rapidly over the last twenty years. Currently the principles to be taught include "conduct," "content," and "diagnostic reasoning." However, inattentiveness of medical schools, reluctance of busy faculty to be involved, and increasing enrollments have resulted in difficulties in teaching these skills. Studies have shown a beneficial short-term effect of...

Developing clinical reasoning skills early in medical education is important. However, research to uncover students' educational needs for learning clinical reasoning during clerkships is limited. The aim of our study was to investigate these needs. Focus group discussions with an independent moderator were conducted. Students were included directly after 10 weeks of clerkships. The (verbatim) ...

To determine whether admission interviews could differentiate applicants on their personal qualities (such as integrity, empathy and commitment) 456 applicants from two medical schools were tested on the Defining Issues Test (DIT), which measures the amount of principled or post-conventional moral reasoning. No difference was found between the DIT scores of the accepted and the rejected applica...

This article is the review of the book "Medical & Surgical Management of Male Infertility" edited by Botros RMB Rizk, Nabil Aziz, Ashok Agarwal and Edmund Sabanegh Jr. This book (hardcover) was published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing, New Delhi.London.Philadelphia.Panama on September 2013 (1st edition). The contents of the book and its relevance to medical education are discussed in thi...

Dear Editor, T letter addresses the current scenario of predatory publishers in the medical field and strategies to curb young researchers from predatory publishing. Today, the increasing trend and magnitude of predatory publishers have proposed a big challenge to young researchers in the medical field (1). Predatory publishers are publishers which publish papers with questionable peer review, ...

It has come to the attention of IOP Publishing that this article should not have reached publication because a lack consent use data in paper and an undeclared conflict interest by authors affiliated with company, Beijing star medical equipment co., produced product discussed paper. The who are company did provide do claim ownership over it. Consequently, been retracted Publishing. agree retrac...

E-mail: [email protected] Medical publishing activity is in mourning. A rigid and grievous sad mantle covers some of the most important biomedical and clinical journals of the Latin American realm. Unhappily, Dr. Luis Benítez Bribiesca, a distinguished colleague who devoted a significant part of his life as an investigator and academician to the diffusion of scientific knowledge, pass...