background: effective clinical training is a fundamental ad important sector in medical education. studying the opinions of students in this era as a training core can be an effective step in devising clinical training as well as effective and efficient assessment. present study is conducted to determine the insights of medical trainees and interns on effective clinical training. methods: in th...

BACKGROUND/GOALS Supporting medical students entering their internships - the clinical clerkship and the internship "final clinical year" (Praktisches Jahr, PJ) - the seminars "Ready for Clerkship" and "Ready for PJ" were held for the first time in 2014 and continued successfully in 2015. These seminars are part of the "Magdeburg Curriculum for Healthcare Competence" (Magdeburger Curriculum zur...

Introduction: There are two popular methods of clinical skillsteaching. One is Peyton’s method, and the other one is RobertGagne’s method. A hybrid model which is a combination ofboth teaching methods is developed and implemented at AvalonUniversity School of Medicine in Clinical Skills. The aim of thestudy was to evaluate the hybrid model of clinical skills teachi...

Since at the time of graduation from medical school physicians are expected to demonstrate adequate professional competence including mastery of critical appraisal skills, we conducted a preliminary, cross-sectional, web-based study to examine the extent to which fourth year medical students in the US are competent in core areas of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Using self-assessment instrument...

In our research, we are examining how pervasive continuous sensing and targeted ecological momentary assessment can be used to unobtrusively collect stress data, and we are designing personal health informatics that can aggregate and visualize these stress data over time and for different audiences. In this position paper, we describe our recent and ongoing efforts in this area and articulate s...

background : nurses play a crucial role in patient-care. therefore, assessing nurses’ clinical competence is essential to achieve qualified and safe care. the aim of this study was to determine and compare the competence assessments made by head nurses and practicing nurses in a university hospital in iran in 2009. methods : a cross-sectional survey was conducted to make comparisons of both sel...