background: simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. aim: to expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (pph) management; to assess which method was more effective. methods: present prospective study was conducted in obstetrics gynecology department of rural tertiary center of northern india.  twenty postgraduates wer...

BACKGROUND Script concordance (SC) questions, in which a learner is given a brief clinical scenario then asked if additional information makes one hypothesis more or less likely, with answers compared to a panel of experts, are designed to reflect a learner's clinical reasoning. PURPOSE The purpose is to compare reliability, validity, and learner satisfaction between a three-option modified S...

Background: Simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. Aim: To expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) management; to assess which method was more effective. Methods: Present prospective study was conducted in Obstetrics Gynecology department of rural tertiary center of Northern India.  Twenty postgraduates wer...

The present study aims to examine the correlation of body dysmorphic disorder, with metacognitive subscales, metaworry and thought-fusion. The study was conducted in a correlation framework. Sample included 155 high school students in Isfahan, Iran in 2013-2014, gathered through convenience sampling. To gather data about BDD, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for BDD was applied. T...

Background The Mild Cognitive Impairment Questionnaire (MCQ) is a 13-item measure that assesses health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in people with mild cognitive impairment (PWMCI); it has two domains assessing the emotional and practical effects. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the MCQ. Design This is a longitudinal questionnaire-based study....

Aim: This research assesses the effect of a virtual patient simulation platform CyberPatient (CP) compared to high-fidelity physical simulator SimJunior (SJ) and traditional bedside training (TBT) on knowledge retention competencies in health education environment. Material: A total 143 fifth-year medical students were randomly assigned three groups: TBT-Group (n = 55) received education; CP-Gr...

Zusammenfassung Aktuell wird der Nationale Kompetenzbasierte Lernzielkatalog Medizin auf Grundlage des „Masterplan Medizinstudium 2020“ weiterentwickelt. Er soll mit Inkrafttreten neuen Ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verpflichtend an allen medizinischen Fakultäten umgesetzt werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche Kompetenzen ärztliche Nachwuchs im Rahmen Kerncurriculums ihres Medizinstud...

OBJECTIVE To determine the psychometric worth of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) and Short-Essay Questions (SEQs) used in internal summative assessment of undergraduate ophthalmology annual send-up examination and to ascertain the quality of items using subjective measures. STUDY DESIGN Correlational analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, from ...

The Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30), developed by Wells and Cartwright-Hatton (2004), represents a multidimensional measure of metacognitive factors considered to be important in the metacognitive model of psychological disorders. The primary aim of the present study was to examine internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent validity and the factor structure of the Greek ...