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  1. In Rwanda, nurses manage all primary care at health centres, and therefore are their clinical reasoning skills important. In this study, a web-based software that allows the creation of virtual patient cases (...

    Authors: Gerard Nyiringango, Uno Fors, Elenita Forsberg and David K. Tumusiime
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:441
  2. Feedback processes are crucial for learning, guiding improvement, and enhancing performance. In workplace-based learning settings, diverse teaching and assessment activities are advocated to be designed and im...

    Authors: Javiera Fuentes-Cimma, Dominique Sluijsmans, Arnoldo Riquelme, Ignacio Villagran, Lorena Isbej, María Teresa Olivares-Labbe and Sylvia Heeneman
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:440
  3. The study aimed to assess the impact of different training modalities on otoscopy performance during a practical exam using a high-fidelity simulator and to determine if objective evaluation of otoscopy is fea...

    Authors: Tobias Albrecht, Nathalie Fehre, Wolf Ramackers, Christoph Nikendei and Christian Offergeld
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:439
  4. One of the new educational systems is the mentorship method. This study aimed to investigate the effect of peer mentoring program on clinical academic progress and psychological characteristics of operating ro...

    Authors: Amin Sedigh, Sara Bagheri, Pariya Naeimi, Vahid Rahmanian and Nader Sharifi
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:438
  5. Molar root canal treatment (RCT) is challenging and requires training and specific skills. Rotary instrumentation (RI) reduces the time needed for instrumentation but may increase the risk of certain procedura...

    Authors: Ahmad M. El-Ma’aita, Sari A. Mahasneh, Maryam A. Hamandi and Mohammad A. Al-Rabab’ah
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:437
  6. The integration of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) within the professional pharmacy program, contributes to assessing the readiness of pharmacy students for Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experi...

    Authors: Soumana C. Nasser, Roy Kanbar, Imad F. Btaiche, Hanine Mansour, Reine Elkhoury, Carl Aoun and Lamis R. Karaoui
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:436
  7. While communication is an essential skill for providing effective medical care, it is infrequently taught or directly assessed, limiting targeted feedback and behavior change. We sought to evaluate the impact ...

    Authors: Carl A. Gold, Rachel Jensen, Marzena Sasnal, Heather S. Day, Rebecca K. Miller-Kuhlmann, Rebecca L. Blankenburg, Caroline E. Rassbach, Arden M. Morris, James R. Korndorffer Jr. and Aussama K. Nassar
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:435
  8. Continuous curriculum improvements reveal the dedication of policy-makers to raising the quality of education and student learning. This study aims to report the impact of curriculum changes to the three-month...

    Authors: Amirhossein Hosseini, Mobina Fathi, Nahid Saadati, Koroush Vahidshahi, Mohammadmahdi Nasehi, Fereshteh Karbasian, Aliakbar Sayyari, Fatemeh Malek and Mahmoud Hajipour
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:433
  9. Although game-based applications have been used in disaster medicine education, no serious computer games have been designed specifically for training these nurses in an IEMT setting. To address this need, we ...

    Authors: Hai Hu, Xiaoqin Lai and Longping Yan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:432
  10. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are designed to create or generate content from their trained parameters using an online conversational interface. AI has opened new avenues in redefining the role boundaries...

    Authors: Kannan Sridharan and Reginald P. Sequeira
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:431
  11. This study explored dental students’ and dentists’ perceptions and attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and analyzed differences according to professional seniority.

    Authors: Hui Jeong, Sang-Sun Han, Hoi-In Jung, Wan Lee and Kug Jin Jeon
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:430
  12. History taking and clinical reasoning are important skills that require knowledge, cognition and meta-cognition. It is important that a trainee must experience multiple encounters with different patients to pr...

    Authors: Tayyaba Gul Malik, Usman Mahboob, Rehan Ahmed Khan and Rabail Alam
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:429
  13. Work-integrated learning (WIL) is widely accepted and necessary to attain the essential competencies healthcare students need at their future workplaces. Yet, competency-based education (CBE) remains complex. ...

    Authors: Oona Janssens, Vasiliki Andreou, Mieke Embo, Martin Valcke, Olivia De Ruyck, Marieke Robbrecht and Leen Haerens
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:427
  14. Medical school curricula strive to train community-engaged and culturally competent physicians, and many use service learning to instill these values in students. The current standards for medical service lear...

    Authors: Jack J. Scala, Hannah Cha, Kiarash Shamardani, Emma R. Rashes, Lehi Acosta-Alvarez and Rishi P. Mediratta
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:426
  15. Regarding competency of nursing students in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), nursing students frequently exhibit inadequate performance and low satisfaction levels regarding CPR training methods. The probl...

    Authors: Seyedeh Nayereh Falahan, Edris Habibi, Naser Kamyari and Vahid Yousofvand
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:425
  16. Feedback is a critical component of the learning process in a clinical setting. This study aims to explore medical residents’ perspectives on feedback delivery and identify potential barriers to feedback-seeki...

    Authors: Sara Shafian, Mehran Ilaghi, Yasamin Shahsavani, Maryam Okhovati, Adel Soltanizadeh, Sarah Aflatoonian and Ali Karamoozian
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:424
  17. Since the release of ChatGPT, numerous positive applications for this artificial intelligence (AI) tool in higher education have emerged. Faculty can reduce workload by implementing the use of AI. While course...

    Authors: Kathryn A. Fuller, Kathryn A. Morbitzer, Jacqueline M. Zeeman, Adam M. Persky, Amanda C. Savage and Jacqueline E. McLaughlin
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:423
  18. The use of virtual reality (VR) in healthcare education is on the increase. In disaster medicine, it could be a solution to the cost and logistic constraints for a “full-scale” scenarios. However, VR is mainly...

    Authors: Laure Abensur Vuillaume, Jonathan Goffoy, Nadège Dubois, Nathacha Almoyner, Cécile Bardet, Evelyne Dubreucq, Sophie Klenkenberg, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Camille Dib and Alexandre Ghuysen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:422
  19. This study aimed to understand the key determinants for poor academic performance of students completing a Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm), Bachelor of Pharmacy and Management (BPharmMgmt), or Master of Pharmacy...

    Authors: Alice Campbell, Tina Hinton, Narelle C. da Costa, Sian E. O’Brian, Danielle R. Liang and Nial J. Wheate
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:421
  20. PRiVENT (PRevention of invasive VENTilation) is an evaluation of a bundle of interventions aimed at the prevention of long-term invasive mechanical ventilation. One of these elements is an e-learning course for h...

    Authors: Julia D. Michels-Zetsche, Janina Schubert-Haack, Katrin Tanck, Benjamin Neetz, Gabriele Iberl, Michael Müller, Axel Kempa, Biljana Joves, Andreas Rheinhold, Alessandro Ghiani, Konstantinos Tsitouras, Armin Schneider, Christoph Rauch, Patrick Gehrig, Elena Biehler, Thomas Fleischauer…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:420
  21. In the past, evidence-based medicine (EBM) and shared decision-making (SDM) have been taught separately in health sciences and medical education. However, recognition is increasing of the importance of EBM tra...

    Authors: Mary Simons, Georgia Fisher, Samantha Spanos, Yvonne Zurynski, Andrew Davidson, Marcus Stoodley, Frances Rapport and Louise A. Ellis
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:418
  22. Authors: Lanfang du, Yan Li, Zhenjie wang, Guoqiang Zhang, Xiaohui Chen, Yingping Tian, Changju Zhu, Jinsong Zhang, Lidong Wu, Peiwu Li, Yuguo Chen, Bing Ji, Shuming Pan, Jun Zeng, Yanfen Chai, Yesai Mu…
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:417

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  23. Professionals are reluctant to make use of machine learning results for tasks like curriculum development if they do not understand how the results were generated and what they mean. Visualizations of peer rev...

    Authors: Andrew James Amos, Kyungmi Lee, Tarun Sen Gupta and Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:416
  24. Suture knotting is the basis of surgical skills. In the process of surgical skills learning, the surrounding environment, especially the light, will affect the efficiency of learning. This study investigated t...

    Authors: Yuan Gu, Lihua Xie, Xianzhe Huang, Chan Liu, Zhengxiao Ouyang, Liqin Yuan and Wenzhao Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:415
  25. The use of virtual learning platforms is on the rise internationally, however, successful integration into existing curricula is a complex undertaking fraught with unintended consequences. Looking beyond medic...

    Authors: Lauren Singer, Lily Evans, Daniel Zahra, Ifeoluwa Agbeja and Siobhan Moyes
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:414
  26. Clinicians working with patients at risk of suicide often experience high stress, which can result in negative emotional responses (NERs). Such negative emotional responses may lead to less empathic communicat...

    Authors: Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Megan L. Rogers, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Olivia Lawrence, Giuseppe Sarli, Adriana Foster, Serge A. Mitelman, Igor Galynker and Benjamin Lok
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:413
  27. Nowadays, Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most popular topics that can be integrated into healthcare activities. Currently, AI is used in specialized fields such as radiology, pathology, and ophthal...

    Authors: Hamidreza Amiri, Samira Peiravi, Seyedeh sara rezazadeh shojaee, Motahareh Rouhparvarzamin, Mohammad Naser Nateghi, Mohammad Hossein Etemadi, Mahdie ShojaeiBaghini, Farhan Musaie, Mohammad Hossein Anvari and Mahsa Asadi Anar
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:412
  28. The concept of “total pain” plays an important role in palliative care; it means that pain is not solely experienced on a physical level, but also within a psychological, social and spiritual dimension. Unders...

    Authors: Yann-Nicolas Batzler, Nicola Stricker, Simone Bakus, Manuela Schallenburger, Jacqueline Schwartz and Martin Neukirchen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:411
  29. This study aims to construct and apply a training course system which was scientific and comprehensive to foster the core competence of infectious disease specialist nurses.

    Authors: Chao Wu, Hongli Zhang, Yawei Lin, Weiyun Yuan, Jing He, Lu Li, Donglei Jiang, Zhaohua Ji and Hongjuan Lang
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:410
  30. Medical schools are called to be socially accountable by medical education and healthcare system stakeholders. Social accountability is a feature of excellent medical education. Medical students are essential ...

    Authors: Lorraine Oriokot, Ian Guyton Munabi, Sarah Kiguli and Aloysius Gonzaga Mubuuke
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:409
  31. Simulation-based training courses in laparoscopy have become a fundamental part of surgical training programs. Surgical skills in laparoscopy are challenging to master, and training in these skills induces str...

    Authors: Maria Suong Tjønnås, Sébastien Muller, Cecilie Våpenstad, Johannes Tjønnås, Solveig Osborg Ose, Anita Das and Mariann Sandsund
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:407
  32. To address a gap in radiation oncology education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), we sought to evaluate the effectiveness and generalizability of a refined curriculum on intensity modulated radioth...

    Authors: Meridith L. Balbach, Grantly Neely, Afua Yorke, Evangelina Figueroa-Medina, Jonathan Paly, Rebecca M. Shulman, Claire Dempsey, Adam Shulman, Cesar Della Biancia, William B. Cutrer and Benjamin C. Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:406
  33. In medical imaging courses, due to the complexity of anatomical relationships, limited number of practical course hours and instructors, how to improve the teaching quality of practical skills and self-directe...

    Authors: DongXu Wang, BingCheng Huai, Xing Ma, BaiMing Jin, YuGuang Wang, MengYu Chen, JunZhi Sang and RuiNan Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:405
  34. The present study aims to explore the influencing factors of the scientific fitness literacy of nurses and provide a strategic basis for literacy improvement.

    Authors: Juan Liu, Man-Hui Hu, Xuan Bai, Yu Zhao, Cai-Hong Cui, Yan Wang, Xiao-Yang Shi and Zong-Bao Niu
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:404
  35. Escape rooms are increasingly used in medical education as a complementary learning technique or even alternative to traditional educational approaches. Few studies focus on debriefing following medical escape...

    Authors: Tami Jørgensen, Oscar Rosenkrantz, Kristine Elisabeth Eberhard, Theo Walther Jensen and Peter Dieckmann
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:403
  36. Simulation now is widely used for training and education in different fields including healthcare education. Medicine and healthcare students can be trained in a secure, efficient, and engaging setting by Simu...

    Authors: Iman Abdullah Bindayel and Shahad Ahmed Alahmad
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:402
  37. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. It is therefore crucial that today’s medical students have certain basic AI skills that enable them to use AI applications success...

    Authors: Matthias Carl Laupichler, Alexandra Aster, Marcel Meyerheim, Tobias Raupach and Marvin Mergen
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:401
  38. Self-efficacy plays an important role in enhancing the teaching capabilities of attending physicians (APs). The clinical ladder (CL) is an educational approach developed in the field of nursing education that ...

    Authors: Yuto Arai, Go Yoshino, Kento Ohta, Tohru Okanishi, Sosuke Kakee, Yoichi Mino, Hiroaki Komatsu, Nanako Yamada, Masaru Ueki and Yoshihiro Maegaki
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:400
  39. The use of simulated patients (SPs) to assess medical students’ clinical performance is gaining prominence, underscored by patient safety perspective. However, few reports have investigated the validity of suc...

    Authors: Junji Haruta, Rika Nakajima and Toshiaki Monkawa
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:399
  40. Reviewing experiences and recognizing the impact of personal and professional views and emotions upon conduct shapes a physician’s professional and personal development, molding their professional identity for...

    Authors: Gillian Li Gek Phua, Jasmine Lerk Juan Owyong, Ian Tze Yong Leong, Suzanne Goh, Nagavalli Somasundaram, Eileen Yi Ling Poon, Anupama Roy Chowdhury, Simon Yew Kuang Ong, Crystal Lim, Vengadasalam Murugam, Eng Koon Ong, Stephen Mason, Ruaridh Hill and Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:398
  41. Scientific research activity in hospitals is important for promoting the development of clinical medicine, and the scientific literacy of medical staff plays an important role in improving the quality and comp...

    Authors: Shuyu Liang, Ziyan Zhai, Xingmiao Feng, Xiaozhi Sun, Jingxuan Jiao, Yuan Gao and Kai Meng
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:397
  42. The prevalence of anxiety is high among international medical sciences students and it increased even more during the COVID-19 pandemic due to different restrictions and social isolation. Successful sociocultu...

    Authors: Jevgenij Razgulin, Gita Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Raimonda Petrolienė and Kastytis Šmigelskas
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:395
  43. Prescription writing skills are essential for physician practice. This study describes the development and implementation of a curricular intervention focused on improving the knowledge and confidence of precl...

    Authors: Christopher Guyer, Brittany Stewart, Ziad Khalifa, Linh Pham and Aline H. Saad
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:394
  44. Physicians engage in educational activities in daily practice and take over an important role in providing information and transferring knowledge to patients and medical students. Therefore, it is important to...

    Authors: Bas PH ter Brugge, Lena Sophia Fegg and Marjo Wijnen-Meijer
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2024 24:391

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