Abstract Introduction Anki is an application that capitalizes upon the techniques of spaced repetition and increasingly utilized by medical students for examination preparation. This study examines impact usage in a school curriculum on academic performance. Secondary objectives analyzed individual utilization qualitative assessment use. Methods A cohort-control was conducted at Boonshoft Schoo...

Johnson TR, Khalil MK, Peppler RD, Davey DD, Kibble JD. Use of the NBME Comprehensive Basic Science Examination as a progress test in the preclerkship curriculum of a new medical school. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 315–320, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00047.2014.—In the present study, we describe the innovative use of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Comprehensive Basic Science Examination (...

Overall, this outstanding text should soon become recognized as the definitive reference for the diagnosis and management of ocular trauma. The tall, narrow shape of Basic Facts for Basic Science suggests that perhaps the author intended that it be put into the pocket of one's lab coat; perhaps not, but this book is certainly appropriate for the shelf of any laboratory and for the office of any...

Some other possible conclusions come easily to mind. Perhaps, if we’re really concerned about students’ learning evidence-based medicine, then we should teach it more or better. On the other hand I am one of many who have joined the anti-EBM movement (Norman 1999). In my view, the fundamental irony remains that, even though it made the BMJ’s ‘‘Top 15 Medical Innovations of all Time’’ list in 20...

background and purpose: the relation of comprehensive exams scores and other measures of students’ performance has been of great importance. this study is an attempt to assess the associations between medical students’ scores in physiopathology and clinical courses and to compare these scores with their scores in the comprehensive exams. methods: medical students’ scores in their courses and al...

Background A comprehensive congenital cardiac MRI exam with contrast enhancement typically consists of multiple scans to evaluate dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) characteristics, physiological function, blood flow, and anatomical assessment. However, multiple sequences require skilled operators, prolong the exam, and lengthen anesthesia duration for uncooperative patients. Thus, we propose a...