Medical Education

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INTRODUCTION: Self-monitoring of clinical-decision-making is essential for health care professional practice. Using certainty in responses to assessment items could allow self-monitoring of clinical-decision-making by medical students to be tracked over time. This research introduces how aspects of insightfulness, safety and efficiency could be based on certainty in, and correctness of, multiple-choice question (MCQ) responses. We also show how these measures change over time. METHODS: With each answer on twice yearly MCQ progress tests, medical students provided their certainty of correctness...

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BACKGROUND: Health professions education curricula are undergoing reform towards social accountability (SA), defined as an academic institution's obligation to orient its education, service and research to respond to societal needs. However, little is known about how or which educational experiences transform learners and the processes behind such action. For example, those responsible for the development and implementation of undergraduate medical education (UGME) programs can benefit from a deeper understanding of educational approaches that foster the development of competencies related to SA...

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INTRODUCTION: Although there is substantial evidence supporting the benefits of simulation-based education (SBE), its widespread and effective implementation remains challenging. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of top-level health care leaders regarding SBE and the barriers and facilitators that influence its wide implementation as part of the postgraduate surgical curricula in Denmark. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with top-level health care leaders who were chosen based on their roles in ensuring high-quality patient care delivery and developing strategies to achieve the goals of the entire health care system...

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INTRODUCTION: Differential attainment is a well-known phenomenon in medical education. Despite a strong impetus for institutions and researchers to move away from a 'student deficit model' when exploring the attainment gap, little attention has been given to understanding the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) medical students. Informed by the social construction of learning theory, this is the first national study to explore how multiple dimensions of the medical school environment impact academic performance of BAME undergraduate medical students across the UK...

CONTEXT: Evidence suggesting the benefits of compassionate, person-centred care, for both patients and physicians is accruing. Medical selection, for example, aims to choose future health professionals that possess the correct attitudes, beliefs and personal attributes to deliver such care. Moreover, once in training, these desirable personal qualities should be developed and maintained, sometimes in the face of adverse health care service conditions. However, advances in selecting for, and developing, these abilities and attributes in health care have been hindered by a lack of clarity regarding how the relevant skills and traits should be defined, measured, developed and maintained in clinicians...

BACKGROUND: The growing importance of sustainability has led to the current literature being saturated with studies on the necessity of, and suggested topics for, education for sustainable health care (ESH). Even so, ESH implementation has been hindered by educator unpreparedness and resource scarcity. A potential resolution lies in virtual education. However, research on the strategies needed for successfully implementing virtual education in the context of sustainable health care and medical education is sparse; this study aims to fill the gap...

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