Basic objectives of good medical education have changed little in the past 50 years. The tremendous advances in the preclinical sciences and in clinical medicine during this time have made it impossible for a faculty to impart this mass of knowledge or, indeed, to expect or require the student to know all of it. This became more apparent with the accelerated program required for undergraduate m...

BACKGROUND Distributing a fixed amount of teaching hours over a longer time period (spaced approach) may result in better learning than delivering the same amount of teaching within a shorter time (massed approach). While a spaced approach may provide more opportunities to elaborate the learning content, a massed approach allows for more economical utilisation of teaching facilities and to opti...

BACKGROUND Transformation of medical students to become medical professionals is a core competency required for physicians in the 21st century. Role modeling was traditionally the key method of transmitting this skill. Medical schools are developing medical curricula which are explicit in ensuring students develop the professional competency and understand the values and attributes of this role...

Although several projects have addressed the importance of gender health issues in medical education, the sustainability of change efforts in medical education has rarely been addressed. Understanding the possible facilitators or barriers to sustainability may help to develop future interventions that are effective in maintaining gender health issues as a topic in medical curricula. The aim of ...

BACKGROUND There is an increasingly growing trend towards integrating scientific research training into undergraduate medical education. Communication, research and organisational/learning skills are core competences acquired by scientific research activity. The aim of this study was to assess the perceived performance of a core of transversal skills, related with scientific research, by Portug...

OBJECTIVES The study was conducted with the aim of evaluating applied occupational health teaching for final-year medical students at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine. METHODS The study included all sixth grade medical students (n=293) during one academic year. Pre- and post-training tests were used to assess the magnitude of change in knowledge and attitude of students on occupation...

Despite the substantial differences between developing and developed countries, access is the major rural health issue. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongly associated with entering rural practice are: (1) a rural upbringing; (2) positive clinical and educational experiences in rural settings as part of undergraduate medical education; (3) targeted training ...

Making judgements on the competency of our peers and trainees is important in patient healthcare. Inaccuracies in such judgements could place patients at risk. First described in 1979, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) have become one of the most widely used methods of assessing aspects of clinical competency in healthcare education. This method of assessment was originally dev...

Electives support autonomy and autonomous motivation in undergraduate medical education Rashmi Kusurkar & Gerda Croiset To cite this article: Rashmi Kusurkar & Gerda Croiset (2014) Electives support autonomy and autonomous motivation in undergraduate medical education, Medical Teacher, 36:10, 915-916, DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.940876 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0142159X....

INTRODUCTION Basic invasive procedural skills are traditionally taught during clerkships. Using simulation to teach invasive skills provides students the opportunity to practice in a structured environment without risking patient safety. We surveyed incoming interns at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to assess the prevalence of simulation training for invasive and semi-invasive procedural ...