This paper describes the innovative features of the first regional model of interprofessional education (IPE) in the US, developed by The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, PA, USA, as a new, independent, community-based medical school in northeastern Pennsylvania. Essential educational components include collaborative care seminars, interprofessional sessions, simulations, live web-based ...

Introduction: The undergraduate medical course is known to be a stressful course within the University structure but there are no national studies available to review this. Objective: To compare the levels psychological stress between medical and non-medical students and to distinguish stress levels over the five years of undergraduate study of the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Honours degre...

Despite the expanding use of undergraduate student peer counseling interventions aimed at reducing college student drinking, few programs evaluate peer counselors' competency to conduct these interventions. The present research describes the development and psychometric assessments of the Peer Proficiency Assessment (PEPA), a new tool for examining Motivational Interviewing adherence in undergr...

BACKGROUND The number of medical undergraduates taking part in Student Scientific Activities (SSA) at Jessenius Faculty of Medicine Comenius University in Slovakia remains low. The aim of this study was to discover some of the factors responsible and suggest improvements. METHODS An anonymous 30-item questionnaire was devised and sent to 245 medical undergraduates (UG) of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd an...

PURPOSE To determine if video review of student performance during patient encounters is an effective tool for medical student learning. METHODS MULTIPLE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES THAT INCLUDE MEDICAL, GENERAL HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE LITERATURE WERE SEARCHED FOR THE FOLLOWING TERMS: medical students, medical education, undergraduate medical education, educatio...

BACKGROUND Measures used for medical student selection should predict future performance during training. A problem for any selection study is that predictor-outcome correlations are known only in those who have been selected, whereas selectors need to know how measures would predict in the entire pool of applicants. That problem of interpretation can be solved by calculating construct-level pr...

BACKGROUND Development of the reflective skills of medical students is an acknowledged objective of medical education. DESCRIPTION Description of an educational exercise which uses an email-based process for developing the reflective skills of undergraduate medical students. Student quotations illustrate learning outcomes qualitatively. DISCUSSION The process described is immediate, direct,...