An evidence-to-practice gap exists in stroke. Evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP) education may serve a role in overcoming this gap. EBCP training curricula belong in residency, fellowship, and continuing medical education programs. Examples of successful EBCP curricula already exist, replacing more traditional journal clubs. This brief review emphasizes how EBCP education can be integrated...

Educators are often tasked with developing courses and curricula that teach learners how to perform medical procedures. This instruction must provide an optimal, uniform learning experience for all learners. If not well designed, this instruction risks being unstructured, informal, variable amongst learners, or incomplete. This article shows how an instructional design model can help craft cour...

Appropriately trained Human Resources for Health (HRH) are key inputs into One Health. '… more than 50% of all infectious diseases of humans originate from animals and that, of the emerging diseases about 75% could be traced back to animal origin' (Rweyemamu et al. 2006). A comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of health, through an appropriate training model for HRH, is a key ...

Objective: Conflicts of interests resulting from interactions with pharmaceutical companies are pervasive in medicine and can result in an undue influence on physicians' decision-making. The objective of this systematic review is to analyze published and scientifically evaluated curricula for medical students and residents regarding such conflicts of interest. We begin by describing the covered...

Recently, Van Schravendijk and colleagues published the results of a European survey on research components in medical curricula. The emerging picture shows wide variation between medical schools and between countries: 3/4 of the schools offer research courses and in 2/3 students can do research themselves. However, in most schools, less than 10 % of students choose this option. Only half the m...

BACKGROUND Although the number of older patients is increasing in almost all medical specialties, the interest of medical students in geriatrics as a career is still low. Because quality of medical education and educators strongly influences student career decisions, it is important to develop curricula that motivate students to become self-directed, lifelong learners in the field of geriatric ...