We tested whether classroom activities that encourage students to connect course materials to their lives will increase student motivation and learning. We hypothesized that this effect will be stronger for students who have low expectations of success. In a randomized field experiment with high school students, we found that a relevance intervention, which encouraged students to make connectio...

Physicians' professionalism and humanism have become central foci of the efforts of medical educators as the public, various accrediting and licensing agencies, and the profession itself have expressed concerns about the apparent erosion of physicians' competency in these aspects of the art, rather than the science, of medicine. Of the many obstacles to enhancing trainees' skills in these domai...

Recently, with the bursting of clicks as well as ethics bubbles, the credibility the business education has taken a beating. The rapid growth and proliferation of business schools, has led to the emergence of some schools having dubious quality – and business education has come under scrutiny. Outside of the US, India now trains largest number of MBAs with about 75,000 degrees annually. The Ind...

Historically, journal clubs have been used by the medical community to enhance an individual’s critical literature evaluation skills as well as staying abreast of current medical literature with the assessment of the potential impact on clinical practice. The first journal club is speculated to have occurred at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London somewhere between 1835 and 1854 [1]. Linzer sim...

BACKGROUND Medical students face numerous stressors during their clinical years, including difficult clinical events. Fostering resilience is a promising way to mitigate negative effects of stressors, prevent burnout, and help students thrive after difficult experiences. However, little is known about medical student resilience. OBJECTIVE To characterize medical student resilience and respons...

OBJECTIVES We determined the competency of the public health epidemiolOgy workforce within state health agencies based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs). METHODS The competence level of current state health agency staff and the need for additi...

An attempt was made to measure the workload of a typical general surgical firm (two part time consultants and their junior staff) serving a population of 100 000 in England and Wales. This provides a background against which to plan curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as being a guide to the experience that a surgical trainee should get in a suitable training post. Th...

In response to the need to educate future physicians about culture and diversity in healthcare issues, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Medicine developed a culture and diversity curriculum in the late 1990s. Institutional leadership, an approach that integrated learning activities into existing courses and clerkships, and use of local experts overcame initial curricul...

The American educational system currently yields disappointing levels of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) engagement and achievement among students. One way to remedy this may be to increase children's motivation in STEM from an early age. This study examined whether a social cue-being part of an experimental "minimal group"-increases STEM engagement in preschoolers (N = 141; 4...

The Child Advocacy Studies Training (CAST) program has been implemented at the graduate and undergraduate levels, but has not been incorporated in medical school training. This study examines the efficacy of a modified version of the CAST program that is tailored to meet the educational needs of medical students. A total sample of 75 first year medical students (57 at 6 month follow-up) partici...