Background: Sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of ASD is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. Their knowledge regarding ASD will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of ASD. Our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical under...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this evaluation study was to identify the feasibility of repurposing specific online modules developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as continuing education modules for front-line practitioners, in teaching clinical epidemiology to undergraduate medical students. Specifically, relevancy of the content, quality of online material, time-effectiveness of using the...

Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK, there is only sparse empirical work investigating social class influences on the choice of degree subject at the undergraduate level. Using Universities’ Statistical Record data for the period 1981-1991, we find no social c...

We agree with the recent report in this Journal from Nand and colleagues that education is a key factor in curbing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is a leading patient health and safety issue that requires engagement at all levels of society. Although there is commitment from clinicians practicing infection-related specialties towards research in AMR and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), the...

As part of an undergraduate pipeline program at our institution for students from underrepresented minorities in medicine backgrounds, we created an intensive four-week medical microbiology course. Team-based learning (TBL) was implemented in this course to enhance student learning of course content. Three different student cohorts participated in the study, and there were no significant differ...

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Parabhdeep (Prabh) Lail, BSc, is an MD/MSc student in the Leaders in Medicine program in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Krista Wilkinson obtained her MSc at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and is currently a Field Epidemiologist with th...