Background: The application of digital educational games in health professions education is on expansion and game-based education usage is increasing. Methods: Diverse databases were searched and the related papers were reviewed. Results: Considering the growing popularity of educational games in medical education, we attempted to classify their benefits, flaws, and engaging factors. Conclus...

February 2007 Volume 33 Number 2 One of the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human was that professional societies develop a curriculum on patient safety and encourage its adoption into training. Further, it suggested that interdisciplinary team training programs be created. A second report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, furthered the argument for education refo...

BACKGROUND Social media are increasingly used in health professions education. How can innovations and research that incorporate social media applications be adjudicated as scholarship? OBJECTIVE To define the criteria for social media-based scholarship in health professions education. METHOD In 2014 the International Conference on Residency Education hosted a consensus conference of health...

Rationale and aims The study of health professions education in the context of complexity science and complex adaptive systems involves different concepts and terminology that are likely to be unfamiliar to many health professions educators. A list of selected key terms and definitions from the literature of complexity science is provided to assist readers to navigate familiar territory from a ...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

Healthy People 2010 included an objective to "increase the proportion of … health professional training schools whose basic curriculum for healthcare providers includes the core competencies in health promotion and disease prevention." Interprofessional prevention education has been seen by the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force as a key strategy for achieving this objective and strengthening...

CONTEXT Many rural and inner-city communities in the United States have persistent shortages of health professionals. In addition, health services are increasingly delivered in community-based settings by interdisciplinary teams. Yet, health professions students in the US continue to receive most of their training in urban hospitals. OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which national and state ...

Preface The discussion about new forms of cooperation and competencies in the health professions need not primarily take place from the perspective of the occupational groups, but rather on the basis of future expectations of the healthcare system – meaning from the perspective of the patients [1]. interprofessional education The Committee for Interprofessional Education in the Health Professio...