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BMC Medical Education

Published by BioMed Central Ltd • ISSN: 14726920

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Application of project-based service-learning courses in medical education: trials of curriculum designs during the pandemic

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Background: Due to COVID-19, face-to-face service activities in service-learning courses have become unfeasible. To address this challenge, this study aims to integrate project-based learning into medical education’s service-learning curriculum. This study also seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of…

Learning for doctor-to-doctor collaboration: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of residents and supervisors with intraprofessional workplace learning in complex tertiary care

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Background: To deliver high-quality care for individuals with complex medical conditions, residents need to be trained across the boundaries of their specialties. This study aimed to explore learning activities and influencing factors in intraprofessional workplace learning by residents in complex t…

The experiences of preparation and engagement of educators in teaching e-portfolio

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Introduction: A teaching e-portfolio is used to organize the collation and presentation of documents about teaching for the development and evaluation of educators. The current study was aimed at describing teaching e-portfolio components at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. As well, w…

General practice undergraduate and vocational training: ambulatory teaching and trainers’ curriculum and remuneration – a cross-sectional study among 30 member countries of WONCA Europe

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Background: After a long phase without any propositions for real ambulatory training inside general practitioners’ offices, general practice (GP) vocational training has begun to appear progressively and has been integrated into undergraduate medical programmes. The aim of this study was to provide …

Challenges to acquire similar learning outcomes across four parallel thematic learning communities in a medical undergraduate curriculum

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Background: To train physicians who are able to meet the evolving requirements from health care, the University of Groningen Medical Center adopted in 2014 a new curriculum named G2020. This curriculum combines thematic learning communities with competency-based medical education and Problem-based l…

The reliability and validity of the training elements scale for clinicians in the new era——based on the perspective of Chinese doctors’ job demands

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of clinician training elements in the new period and test its reliability and validity. Methods: Our approach was based on interdisciplinary theory, systematology, collaborative innovation theory, and whole person education theory combined …

Learning styles of medical students and related factors

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Background: The concept of learning style is quite important for teachers to teach, organize students’ learning experiences, and accomplish educational goals. Motivation is one of the most important psychological concepts in education. Motivation is multidimensional and ranges from amotivation to ex…

Perceived social support and professional identity in nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic era: the mediating effects of self-efficacy and the moderating role of anxiety

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Background: Health professionals, including nurses, experienced heavy workloads and significant physical and mental health challenges during the coronavirus disease (COVID) 19 pandemic, which may affect career choices for those considering nursing and for nursing students. The COVID-19 pandemic is n…

Employability in health professional education: a scoping review

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Background: The concept of employability can help educators understand the variability in the career outcome of graduates. Within the health professional education (HPE) literature, various conceptions of employability are used and implied. This review considers how the concept ‘employability’ is de…

Clinical decision-making and adaptive expertise in residency: a think-aloud study

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Clinical decision-making (CDM) is the ability to make clinical choices based on the knowledge and information available to the physician. It often refers to individual cognitive processes that becomes more dependent with the acquisition of experience and knowledge. Previous research has used dual-pr…

Application of online teaching mode combining case studies and the MOOC platform in obstetrics and gynecology probation teaching

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Objective: To explore the application effect of the clinical basic integration teaching mode constructed by case studies and the MOOC platform in obstetrics and gynecology internship teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Methods: One hundred ten clinical medical students of grade 2020 w…

Preparedness for practice of newly qualified dental practitioners in the Australian context: an exploratory study

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Background: The current study explored the perspectives of preparedness for dental practice from a range of relevant stakeholders (i.e., educators, employers, final-year students, graduates, practitioners, and professional associations) using an anonymous online survey in which participants describe…

A Twitter-facilitated professional learning community: online participation, connectedness, and satisfaction

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Background: Twitter has gained increasing popularity and attention as a professional learning environment to share knowledge, exchange information, make connections, and build networks. To evaluate the effectiveness of Twitter-facilitated online discussions, a community of inquiry framework could be…

Problem-based or lecture-based learning, old topic in the new field: a meta-analysis on the effects of PBL teaching method in Chinese standardized residency training

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Background: Standardized residency training (SRT) is crucial for graduate medical education and the training of high-quality doctors. Nevertheless, China started SRT nationwide only in the recent decade. During these years, researchers have been searching for suitable teaching methods to improve the…

Attitudes of German GP trainees regarding add-on training programs differ if in office or hospital training phase

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Background: Many residents are exposed to negative attitudes towards primary care during hospital training. Attractive add-on training programs exist, but it is unclear whether these need to be tailored to the location of training (hospital vs. office). We report differences in learner attitudes fro…

International medical students’ perspectives on factors affecting their academic success in China: a qualitative study

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Background: The number of international students who choose China as their destination for quality medical education is rising, particularly those from developing countries, but little is known about their adaptation and educational experiences at Chinese universities. This study explored the factor…

Transitions in general practice training: quantifying epidemiological variation in trainees’ experiences and clinical behaviours

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Background: General Practice training in Australia is delivered through the apprenticeship model. General Practice supervisors support trainees transitioning from hospital-based work towards competent independent community-based practice. The timing and manner in which support should be provided is …

Using communities of practice as a lens for exploring experiential pharmacy learning in general practice: Are communities of practice the way forward in changing the training culture in pharmacy?

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Background: Currently, there is little experiential learning in general practice (GP) during UK undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy education and training. Aim: To apply educational theories to explore pharmacy stakeholders’ perceptions of placements in general practice and contribute to the dev…

Struggling to fit the white coat and the role of contextual factors within a hospital organisation - an ethnographic study on the first months as newly graduated doctors

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Background: Despite increased focus on improving the transition from being a medical student to working as a junior doctor, many newly graduated doctors (NGD) report the process of fitting the white coat as stressful, and burnout levels indicate that they might face bigger challenges than they can h…

Intraprofessional workplace learning in postgraduate medical education: a scoping review

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Background: Residents need to be trained across the boundaries of their own specialty to prepare them for collaborative practice. Intraprofessional learning (i.e. between individuals of different disciplines within the same profession) has received little attention in the postgraduate medical educat…