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Upon entering graduate or professional school, students are often overwhelmed by the robust amount of information being delivered and the short time frame in which they are expected to learn the content. Students who lack sufficient study skills and time management techniques typically struggle to adapt to the heightened demands of graduate school. However, students who are self-regulated learners possess the skills to adequately manage their time and monitor their own learning. Self-regulated learning is the ability to set learning goals, plan study time, and assess learning...

Medical schools are evolving, and admission criteria are changing. The Anatomy and Physiology course, the classic BIO 201, and BIO 202 are no longer a complete requirement in the application. It is common to find two groups of students: one with and one without anatomy background in the first year. The MS1 class from 2021 who had exposure to the previous anatomy courses accounted for only 50% of students (Intro. to Anatomy-18%, A&P-15%, Neuroanatomy-9%, Gross anatomy-8%). The microlearning method is a learning technique that uses small and specific information quickly, usually not over 10 minutes...

BACKGROUND: Pharmacology is a cornerstone of medical education as it underlies safe prescribing practices. However, medical students have reported unease regarding their perceived proficiency in medical pharmacology. Despite the significant impetus to improve student outcomes, there is little analysis available of the techniques used by medical students to learn, retain and apply medical pharmacology knowledge. METHODS: A mixed-methods, student-focused approach was conducted to design and evaluate specific resources developed to address gaps in pharmacology education...

It is well known that undergraduate medical education demands learners to master large amounts of material. To help cope with learning, medical students have resorted to e-learning resources that include video lectures, visual mnemonics, and flashcard systems. The purpose of the current study was to determine the usage of Anki (Damien Elmes, https://apps.ankiweb.net/) among first-year medical students in an integrated first-year module consisting of anatomy and physiology. Additionally, this study aimed to elucidate how students used Anki in conjunction with their lectures...

Retrieval practice of isolated words (e.g., with flashcards) enhances foreign vocabulary learning. However, vocabulary is often encountered in context. We investigated whether retrieval opportunities also enhance contextualized word learning. In two within-subjects experiments, participants encoded 24 foreign words and then read a story to further strengthen word knowledge. The story contained eight target words in a retrieval context, which required participants to recall word meaning from memory to understand the text (e...

Sight-word interventions are often implemented when students show delays in word recognition. However, few studies have investigated the effects of teaching sight words using phrases. The current study investigated the effects of a tablet-based flashcard intervention on the acquisition of sight phrases. A multiple-baseline design across word sets was used for two students with intellectual disability who were included in the general education classroom for the majority of the day. For each phrase, students used an iPad flashcard program and were prompted to see the phrase, say the phrase, tap the screen to hear the phrase, and then say the phrase again before moving on to the next phrase...

Over the past two decades, digital flashcards - that is, computer programmes, smartphone apps, and online services that mimic, and potentially improve upon, the capabilities of traditional paper flashcards - have grown in variety and popularity. Many digital flashcard platforms allow learners to make or use flashcards from a variety of sources and customise the way in which flashcards are used. Yet relatively little is known about why and how students actually use digital flashcards during self-regulated learning, and whether such uses are supported by research from the science of learning...

Memorising vocabulary is an important aspect of formal foreign-language learning. Advances in cognitive psychology have led to the development of adaptive learning systems that make vocabulary learning more efficient. One way these computer-based systems optimize learning is by measuring learning performance in real time to create optimal repetition schedules for individual learners. While such adaptive learning systems have been successfully applied to word learning using keyboard-based input, they have thus far seen little application in word learning where spoken instead of typed input is used...

OBJECTIVES: To report the effectiveness of, and barriers and facilitators to, hearing rehabilitation for care home residents with dementia. DESIGN: Systematic review. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Care home residents with dementia and hearing loss. METHODS: No restrictions on publication date or language were set and gray literature was considered. Eligible studies were critically appraised and presented via a narrative review...

BACKGROUND: Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is a common medical treatment for critically ill patients. The alarm management component of CRRT is urgent and time sensitive. Patient safety and survival rates are jeopardized if critical care nurses do not handle this situation properly. However, clinical settings cannot provide nurses with the opportunity to practice alarm management, which results in related training difficulties. Based on a survey conducted in May 2018, the rate of proper alarm management for the nurses in our CRRT unit was only 53...

BACKGROUND: Improving health education of the mother by providing community-based interventions is known to help control pneumonia. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of behavior change communication (BCC) activities for mothers in reducing the incidence of childhood pneumonia. DESIGN: Open-label cluster randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Urban slums and villages in two districs of Maharashtra. PARTICIPANTS/CLUSTER: Under-five children and their mothers from households in the randomly selected 16 clusters out of total 45 clusters, stratified into Pune and Sangli districts and further into rural and urban areas before randomization...

BACKGROUND: Short instructional videos can make learning more efficient through the application of multimedia principles, and video animations can illustrate the complex concepts and dynamic processes that are common in health sciences education. Commercially produced videos are commonly used by medical students but are rarely integrated into curricula. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to examine student engagement with medical education videos incorporated into a preclinical Cardiovascular Systems course...

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INTRODUCTION: Electronic flashcards allow repeated information exposure over time along with active recall. It is increasingly used for self-study by medical students but remains poorly implemented for graduate medical education. The primary goal of this study was to determine whether a flashcard system enhances preparation for the in-training examination in obstetrics and gynecology (ob-gyn) conducted by the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG). METHODS: Ob-gyn residents at Duke University were included in this study...

Objective: Retrieval practice, often using electronic flashcards, is increasingly utilized among medical students for self-study. In this study, the authors evaluated usage and satisfaction with electronic flashcards based on a medical school psychiatry curriculum. Methods: First-year medical students at one institution consented to participate and received access to a set of pre-made flashcards. Surveys were distributed that collected demographic information along with measures of prior performance, test anxiety, and prior experience with electronic flashcards...

Introduction: Remediation in medical education tends to focus on the struggling learner. However, understanding successful learners may provide valuable insights to problematic academic behavior. This study explored core study strategies reported by high-performing medical school students. Method: In the Fall of 2018 and 2019, high-performing first- and second-year medical students, defined as those who had performed over 90% on a national standardized assessment, were requested via e-mail to describe the study strategies that they believe contributed to their success...

To educate nursing students and practicing registered nurses about population health management (PHM), a team of faculty and PHM clinical leaders created an innovative, scalable, turnkey ready, multimedia e-learning module. The module has four lessons; takes approximately three hours to complete; and can be accessed using a weblink from computers, smart phones, and tablets. The module engages learners with videos, flashcards, case studies, and a variety of interactive knowledge checks. Each learner can obtain a record of completion, which can be shared with faculty...

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OBJECTIVE: Inadequate diversity in clinical trials is widely recognized as a significant contributing factor to health disparities experienced by racial/ethnic minorities and other diverse populations in the US. To address this in a scalable way, we sought to develop a web tool that could help enhance underserved minority participation in clinical research. METHODS: We used our research literacy support flashcard tool as the initial prototype for human-centered design and usability testing of the web tool Health for All in public library settings...