BACKGROUND: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is the commonest genetic disease worldwide. Of the sickle cell control strategies, premarital genetic counselling is increasingly practised in many countries of the world. Knowledge of the citizenry of a nation about SCD constitutes an important variable that influences the acceptability, practice and success of ...

INTRODUCTION: This study examines US osteopathic residents' and medical students' attitudes and willingness to practice in rural medicine. The multiple aims of this study were to determine: (1) if there are any significant differences in interest in rural medicine among various levels of training; (2) the relative age, gender, and ...

CONTEXT: This study set out to test the hypotheses that after the implementation of an integrated contextual medical curriculum (ICMC), ICMC students would attain higher levels of knowledge in both the basic and clinical sciences at an earlier stage than conventional medical curriculum (CMC) students, that ICMC students would perform ...

BACKGROUND: Dysmenorrhoea is the term for painful menstruation. It is a common gynaecological complaint among female adolescent. The objective of this study was to assess attitude and knowledge about treatment of dysmenorrhoea among medical students of Isra University. METHODS: This study was conducted at Isra University Hyderabad. Non-probability, convenient random ...

CONTEXT: Poor interprofessional relationships in maternity units have resulted in a number of suboptimal outcomes: students are reluctant to pursue careers in obstetrics and gynaecology (O & G); trainees feel bullied, and poor communication between professionals results in avoidable adverse events. Interprofessional learning has been advocated to improve interprofessional relationships, ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our study examined whether GRIEV_ING improved death notification skills of medical students, whether pretesting with simulated survivors primed learners and improved results of the intervention, and whether feedback on the simulated encounter improved student performance. METHODS: GRIEV_ING training was given to 138 fourth-year medical students divided into ...

INTRODUCTION: The attitude of journalism students toward living donation (LD) could influence public opinion and help to promote this treatment option. We sought to analyze the attitude of journalism students toward LD and the factors that affect this attitude. METHODS: We surveyed journalism students in the academic year 2005-2006 (N ...

BACKGROUND: Using movies has been accepted worldwide as a tool to help students learn medical professionalism. In the second year, a group of medical students conducted the "Cinemeducation" project to promote professionalism in the "Medical Ethics and Critical Thinking" course. METHOD: Five movies with professionalism issues were screened with 20-30 ...

We performed a multicenter comparative survey on undergraduate medical education regarding the care of dying patients at medical schools in three countries. We enrolled 380 first- and sixth-year medical students from Universidad Austral (Argentina), Universidad de Navarra (Spain), and Università Campus Biomedico di Roma (Italy). Answers to the questions were ...

Formative Assessment Case Studies (FACS) are an e-learning resource consisting of a case scenario punctuated with decision-making steps (multiple-choice questions) and feedback for wrong answers. FACS was developed to enhance clinical decision-making skills. We wrote six FACS scenarios covering preoperative assessment topics and made them accessible to 149 final year ...

INTRODUCTION: Organisation and management are factors of paramount importance in higher education for achieving higher quality of training, better professional adaptation, and more effective career pursuance of the students. AIM: The present study analyses the use of various teaching methods for the students in the major of Healthcare Management as ...

BACKGROUND: The Australian government has addressed rural medical workforce shortages through strategies such as the Rural Undergraduate Support and Co-ordination program, based on the premise that increased exposure to rural medicine within the curricula will contribute to more students adopting a rural career. PURPOSE: This article reports on how an ...

The paper examines hand-written annotation, its many features, difficulties and strengths as a feedback tool. It extends and clarifies what modest evidence is in the public domain and offers an evaluation of how to use annotation effectively in the support of student feedback [Marshall, C.M., 1998a. The Future of Annotation ...

Educational portfolios have been used across a variety of disciplines in university education as means of encouraging reflective practice in students and as a form of assessment by which a cumulative record of the student's experience can be substantiated. More recently, the development of ePortfolios has provided the potential to ...

The objectives of this study were to determine factors that may affect satisfaction levels of participants in a nonclinic (sport) setting through participant observation and participation. Factors associated with general satisfaction (observed) were determined along with a participant demographic profile, participant knowledge about chiropractic, and satisfaction with treatment received from ...

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine what students perceive as the ideal features of virtual patient (VP) design in order to foster learning with a special focus on clinical reasoning. METHODS: A total of 104 Year 5 medical students worked through at least eight VPs representing four different designs during ...

CONTEXT: Research regarding the experience of stress during medical training scenarios using standardised patients (SPs) has been primarily qualitative and has focused on the SPs. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate stress and motivation in both students and SPs during these scenarios by measuring heart rate variability ...

The Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale and the Attitudes Toward Statistics questionnaire were administered to 226 university of technology students. The former scale measures anxiety about learning statistics in terms of Worth of Statistics, Interpretation Anxiety, Test and Class Anxiety, Computational Self-concept, Fear of Asking for Help, and Fear of Statistics ...

BACKGROUND: Abortion policy varies significantly between Northern Ireland and Norway. This is the first study to compare medical students' attitudes towards abortion in two different countries. OBJECTIVE: To assess medical students' attitudes to abortion at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB). DESIGN: An anonymous questionnaire completed ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the practicality of implementing a peer-teaching program in a large class (>350 students) of medical students and whether such a program is beneficial. Case-based problems were developed by faculty members to facilitate student problem solving and discussion. Voluntary student enrollment was available ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of traditional and innovative methods of training for heart auscultation in medical students, physicians, and medical teachers, to find out the major reasons of the deficient auscultative skills, and to determine a place and significance of alternative methods of auscultation training. METHODS: By principle of ...

Different initiatives have been implemented in the Professionalism Program of the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine to develop in the students a culture of professionalism and to promote moral, ethical, altruistic, and humanistic values. The Program was incorporated into the curriculum with the fusion of medical ethics, public health, ...

The Life Sciences-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Outreach Program at Harvard University supports high school science education by offering an on-campus program for students and their teachers to participate in investigative, hands-on laboratory sessions. The outreach program has recently designed and launched a successful zebrafish embryology protocol that we present here. ...

BACKGROUND: Taking the Initiative to evaluate students' affinity toward psychiatry seems to be a global issue and is an essential part of programs to improve the status of the profession. The aim of this study is to explore medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry in comparison to other residencies (internal medicine, ...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the operating efficiency and technical accuracy of 3 different rectangular collimators. STUDY DESIGN: A full-mouth intraoral radiographic series excluding central incisor views were taken on training manikins by 2 groups of undergraduate dental and dental hygiene students. Three types of rectangular ...

Interventional radiology (IR) is a rapidly expanding specialty that is facing the challenges of turf wars and personnel shortages. Appropriate exposure of medical students to this field can be vital to recruitment of potential future trainees or referring physicians. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and ...

BACKGROUND: Policy discussions concerning pharmaceutical promotion often assume that small promotional items are unlikely to influence prescribing behavior. Our experiment measures whether exposure to these items results in more favorable attitudes toward marketed products and whether policies that restrict pharmaceutical marketing mitigate this effect. METHODS: This is a randomized controlled ...

AIM: To assess the influence of the status of the crown of the tooth on the observers' periapical radiological assessment. METHODOLOGY: Seven clinical tutors, eight postgraduate students and seven undergraduate students were recruited. Each evaluated 24 periapical radiographs comprising 12 radiographs with teeth restored with small to medium coronal restorations ...

The main objective of problem-based learning (PBL) is to provoke students to solve a new problem by themselves. The aim of this study was to investigate whether PBL was a better method of teaching basic and advanced life support to medical students compared with the classical method. The research was ...

BACKGROUND: Scant data are available on the career paths of Indian medical students. I wished to determine the career destinations of students who joined Grant Medical College, Bombay in 1982 and 1957, at 25 and 50 years, respectively, after having joined the medical school. METHODS: Questionnaire, telephone interview, e-mail response ...

OBJECTIVE: The authors aimed to gain information on (1) the challenges for recovering students on a university campus and (2) the most helpful components of a collegiate recovery program. PARTICIPANTS: The 15 students in the study were all in recovery from substance abuse. They entered the university and also entered ...

Using a 12-item questionnaire, we assessed knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) toward epilepsy and identified determinants of inappropriate attitudes toward people with epilepsy (PWE) among 910 randomly selected secondary school students in Batibo (Cameroon). Ninety-five percent of the students had heard or read about epilepsy, 73.3% knew an epileptic, and ...

PURPOSE: To identify and examine how students respond to and engage with formal professionalism teaching strategies, and what factors outside the formal curriculum may influence professional development. METHOD: Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with 56 students completing the preclinical curriculum at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2004 ...

BACKGROUND: Relatively few studies have rigorously assessed the effectiveness of computer-based self-assessment in medical education. AIM: To assess whether an online self-assessment tool can be an effective adjunct to a traditional curriculum for second-year medical students. METHODS: The NYU School of Medicine Online Self-Assessment Tool (SOMOSAT) consists of >450 multiple-choice ...

Students chose between two allocation options, one that gave the allocator more and another participant still more (the "optimal" choice) and one which gave the allocator less and the other participant still less (the "competitive" choice). In a within-subjects design, students' behavior patterns were significantly correlated across the two rounds ...

Three articles in this issue, by Bloodgood and colleagues, Hauer and colleagues, and White and colleagues, address important issues in student assessment. They use different approaches to data collection and focus on issues as broad as pass-fail grading in the preclinical years to standardized patient testing and remediation in the ...

Routine measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine use has greatly decreased the incidence of mumps in the U.S. However, a resurgence of mumps occurred in 2006. We investigated the large outbreak at a university and assessed risk factors for disease. We described the outbreak and conducted a case-control study. We interviewed case students ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Although medical students have increasingly more opportunities to participate in international electives, their experiences are usually unstructured and the literature referring to their learning outcomes, educational environment, and assessment is scanty. This study was undertaken to clarify qualitatively what students learn from their international electives. METHODS: We ...

BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands 170,000 patients yearly fall victim to poor communication between health care professionals,with 44% of patients receiving inappropriate therapy as a result. Evidence indicates that this problem may be due to physicians learning to communicate therapeutic content by unstructured means during training. AIM: To introduce a structured ...

In this study Year 1 students in a new, primary care-oriented undergraduate course were offered a practice multiple-choice question (MCQ) examination with two question item formats--with and without brief primary care-based clinical scenarios--with the same correct answers. Data collected included: completion time; number correct; and responses to a questionnaire seeking ...

CONTEXT: Many faculty members believe that students today differ from those in the past. This paper reviews the empirical evidence for generational changes among students and makes recommendations for classroom teaching based on these changes. Generational changes are rooted in shifts in culture and should be viewed as reflections of ...

Medical practices have an untapped talent pool of free labor. students needing internships in health administration, health information management, and related programs. An internship, or pre-professional practice, refers to the experience whereby students are able to gain invaluable field experience that is beneficial to both medical practices and students. The ...

BACKGROUND: Despite the stabilization of match rates, negative perceptions toward general surgery are still rife among medical students. The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes of fourth-year medical students towards general surgery at a regional level. METHOD: All fourth-year medical students in the state of Nebraska were ...

Recent strategies employed in response to military physician recruitment shortfalls have consisted of increasing financial incentives for students in the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) while offering no increased incentive for attendance at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). To gauge the impact of these incentive increases ...

Medical students are expected to make residency and career decisions early in their undergraduate medical education. In medical school curricula, there is limited exposure to emergency medicine (EM) in the preclerkship years. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a structured EM observership program for preclerks by surveying the ...

PURPOSE: To examine students' responses to reflective practice assignments used in medical ethics and professionalism education. The study goals include an examination of what reflective writing reveals about students' personal and professional values, identification of the narrative typologies students use to tell stories of ethical dilemmas, and a determination of ...

BACKGROUND: In Australia, most medical students graduate without a firm career choice, with this decision being made during their early postgraduate years. Strategies addressing the current lack of meaningful exposure to general practice during these formative prevocational years are likely to be the most effective in increasing the proportion and ...

BACKGROUND: Few published articles focus on undergraduate dermatology education. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the amount and type of dermatology instruction for medical students and to rank specific diseases by the expectations of learners. METHODS: Electronic surveys were sent via e-mail to 109 dermatology residency programs as well as to 33 medical ...

AIM: To implement and evaluate a series of interactive clinically applied anatomy tutorials for final year dental undergraduate students. METHODS: A 6-week voluntary virtual program of tutorials for final year dental undergraduates, with pre- and post-tutorial testing, was evaluated using a priority sequence model (QualQuan). A purposive sample (n = ...

Attitudes amongst health professionals can impact on the effectiveness of teamworking and patient care. Interprofessional education (IPE) is thought to contribute to the development of positive attitudes. An Interprofessional Training Unit (ITU) was set up to create an optimal learning environment for healthcare students. Students' attitudes were assessed, using a ...