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BMC Medical Education, Volume 8

 

 

 

Research article
Towards a Formative Assessment of Classroom Competencies (FACCs) for postgraduate medical trainees
Christopher S Gray, Anthony J Hildreth, Catherine Fisher, Andrew Brown, Anita Jones, Ruth Turner, Leslie Boobis
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:61 (17December2008)
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Research article
The characteristics of depressive symptoms in medical students during medical education and training: a cross-sectional study
Sergio Baldassin, Tnia Correa de Toledo Ferraz Alves, Arthur Guerra de Andrade, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Martins
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:60 (11December2008)
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Research article
Determinants of career aspirations of medical students in southern China
LingBing She, BingLi Wu, LiYan Xu, JianYi Wu, PiXian Zhang, EnMin Li
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:59 (11December2008)
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Research article
A generalizability study of the medical judgment vignettes interview to assess students' noncognitive attributes for medical school
Tyrone Donnon, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:58 (10December2008)
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Research article
Learning to prescribe pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England
Richard J Cooper, Joanne Lymn, Claire Anderson, Anthony Avery, Paul Bissell, Louise Guillaume, Allen Hutchinson, Elizabeth Murphy, Julie Ratcliffe, Paul Ward
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:57 (5December2008)
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Research article
Medical students' and facilitators' experiences of an Early Professional Contact course: Active and motivated students, strained facilitators
Bernhard von Below, Gunilla Hellquist, Stig Rdjer, Ronny Gunnarsson, Cecilia Bjrkelund, Mats Wahlqvist
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:56 (2December2008)
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Research article
Self- and peer assessment may not be an accurate measure of PBL tutorial process
Jos Lcio Martins Machado, Valria Menezes Peixeiro Machado, Waldir Grec, Valdes Roberto Bollela, Joaquim Edson Vieira
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:55 (27November2008)
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Research article
Changes in medicine course curricula in Brazil encouraged by the Program for the Promotion of Medical School Curricula (PROMED)
Patrcia Alves de Souza, Anglica Maria Bicudo Zeferino, Marco Da Aurlio Ros
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:54 (27November2008)
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Debate
The need for national medical licensing examination in Saudi Arabia
Sohail Bajammal, Rania Zaini, Wesam Abuznadah, Mohammad Al-Rukban, Syed Moyn Aly, Abdulaziz Boker, Abdulmohsen Al-Zalabani, Mohammad Al-Omran, Amro Al-Habib, Mona Al-Sheikh, Mohammad Al-Sultan, Nadia Fida, Khalid Alzahrani, Bashir Hamad, Mohammad Al Shehri, Khalid Bin Abdulrahman, Saleh Al-Damegh, Mansour M Al-Nozha, Tyrone Donnon
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:53 (25November2008)
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Research article
Integrated online formative assessments in the biomedical sciences for medical students: benefits for learning
Gary M Velan, Philip Jones, H Patrick McNeil, Rakesh K Kumar
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:52 (25November2008)
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Research article
The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice
Jamiu O Busari, Eduard AA Verhagen, Fred D Muskiet
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:51 (21November2008)
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Research article
An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability
Elie A Akl, Reem Mustafa, Thomas Slomka, Alia Alawneh, Abhishek Vedavalli, Holger J Schnemann
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:50 (18November2008)
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Research article
A train-the-trainer education and promotion program: chronic fatigue syndrome a diagnostic and management challenge
Dana J Brimmer, K Kimberly McCleary, Teresa A Lupton, Katherine M Faryna, Kevin Hynes, William C Reeves
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:49 (15October2008)
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Research article
Satisfaction with web-based training in an integrated healthcare delivery network: do age, education, computer skills and attitudes matter?
Ashish Atreja, Neil B Mehta, Anil K Jain, CM Harris, Hemant Ishwaran, Michel Avital, Andrew J Fishleder
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:48 (15October2008)
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Research article
Graduate entry to medicine in Iran
Saharnaz Nedjat, Reza Majdzadeh, Arash Rashidian
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:47 (11October2008)
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Research article
Psychosocial health risk factors and resources of medical students and physicians: a cross-sectional study
Edgar Voltmer, Ulf Kieschke, David LB Schwappach, Michael Wirsching, Claudia Spahn
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:46 (2October2008)
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Research article
Development of a food allergy education resource for primary care physicians
Joyce E Yu, Arvind Kumar, Christine Bruhn, Suzanne S Teuber, Scott H Sicherer
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:45 (30September2008)
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Research article
Implementation of Integrated Learning Program in neurosciences during first year of traditional medical course: Perception of students and faculty
Sarmishtha Ghosh, Himanshu V Pandya
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:44 (24September2008)
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Research article
Learning based on patient case reviews: an interview study
Rikke Sand Andersen, Rikke Pilegaard Hansen, Jens Sndergaard, Flemming Bro
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:43 (5September2008)
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Research article
International medical graduates (IMGs) needs assessment study: comparison between current IMG trainees and program directors
Rachelle Zulla, Mark Otto Baerlocher, Sarita Verma
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:42 (29August2008)
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Research article
An investigation into how the European Working Time Directive has affected anaesthetic training
Andrew R Bowhay
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:41 (12August2008)
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Research article
Validating the effectiveness of Clinically Oriented Physiology Teaching (COPT) in undergraduate physiology curriculum
Reem Abraham, Komattil Ramnarayan, Asha Kamath
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:40 (24July2008)
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Research article
How residents and interns utilise and perceive the personal digital assistant and UpToDate
Jason Phua, Tow Keang Lim
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:39 (14July2008)
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Technical advance
A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
Michael T Fitch, David E Manthey, Henderson D McGinnis, Bret A Nicks, Manoj Pariyadath
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:38 (3July2008)
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Research article
Factors associated with the subspecialty choices of internal medicine residents in Canada
Leora Horn, Katina Tzanetos, Kevin Thorpe, Sharon E Straus
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:37 (26June2008)
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Research article
Gender sensitivity among general practitioners: Results of a training programme
Halime H Celik, Ineke I Klinge, Trudy T van der Weijden, Guy GAM Widdershoven, Toine ALM Lagro-Janssen
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:36 (26June2008)
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Research article
Problem-based learning and larger student groups: mutually exclusive or compatible concepts a pilot study
Martyn P Kingsbury, Joanne S Lymn
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:35 (18June2008)
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Research article
Quality gap of educational services in viewpoints of students in Hormozgan University of medical sciences
Teamur Aghamolaei, Shahram Zare
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:34 (18June2008)
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Research article
Identifying outcome-based indicators and developing a curriculum for a continuing medical education programme on rational prescribing using a modified Delphi process
Hamideh M Esmaily, Carl Savage, Rezagoli Vahidi, Abolghasem Amini, Mohammad Hossein Zarrintan, Rolf Wahlstrom
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:33 (30May2008)
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Research article
Factors affecting medical students in formulating their specialty preferences in Jordan
Yousef Khader, Dema Al-Zoubi, Zouhair Amarin, Ahmad Alkafagei, Mohammad Khasawneh, Samar Burgan, Khalid El Salem, Mousa Omari
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:32 (23May2008)
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Research article
Consultant medical trainers, modernising medical careers (MMC) and the European time directive (EWTD): tensions and challenges in a changing medical education context
Maria Tsouroufli, Heather Payne
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:31 (20May2008)
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Research article
Issues and challenges in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors: Assessing the needs of cardiologists
Sean M Hayes, Martin Dupuis, Suzanne Murray
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:30 (16May2008)
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Research article
Limitations of student-driven formative assessment in a clinical clerkship. A randomised controlled trial
Edward J Palmer, Peter G Devitt
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:29 (11May2008)
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Research article
Innovations in curriculum design: A multi-disciplinary approach to teaching statistics to undergraduate medical students
Jenny V Freeman, Steve Collier, David Staniforth, Kevin J Smith
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:28 (1May2008)
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Research article
Harmonising Evidence-based medicine teaching: a study of the outcomes of e-learning in five European countries
Regina Kulier, Julie Hadley, Susanne Weinbrenner, Berrit Meyerrose, Tamas Decsi, Andrea R Horvath, Eva Nagy, Jose I Emparanza, Sjors FPJ Coppus, Theodoros N Arvanitis, Amanda Burls, Juan B Cabello, Marcin Kaczor, Gianni Zanrei, Karen Pierer, Katarzyna Stawiarz, Regina Kunz, Ben WJ Mol, Khalid S Khan
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:27 (29April2008)
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Research article
Medical students' views about an undergraduate curriculum in psychiatry before and after clinical placements
Clare Oakley, Femi Oyebode
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:26 (25April2008)
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Research article
Evaluation of a web-based ECG-interpretation programme for undergraduate medical students
Mikael Nilsson, Gunilla Bolinder, Claes Held, Bo-Lennart Johansson, Uno Fors, Jan stergren
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:25 (23April2008)
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Research article
Requirements for effective academic leadership in Iran: A Nominal Group Technique exercise
Ali Bikmoradi, Mats Brommels, Alireza Shoghli, Zohreh Sohrabi, Italo Masiello
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:24 (22April2008)
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Research article
Assessment of an undergraduate psychiatry course in an African setting
Benjamin J Baig, Anna Beaglehole, Robert C Stewart, Leonie Boeing, Douglas H Blackwood, Johan Leuvennink, Felix Kauye
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:23 (22April2008)
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Research article
Training tomorrow's doctors in diabetes: self-reported confidence levels, practice and perceived training needs of post-graduate trainee doctors in the UK. A multi-centre survey
Jyothis T George, David A Warriner, Jeffrin Anthony, Kavitha S Rozario, Sinu Xavier, Edward B Jude, Gerard A McKay
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:22 (17April2008)
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Research article
The educational background and qualifications of UK medical students from ethnic minorities
IC McManus, Katherine Woolf, Jane Dacre
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:21 (16April2008)
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Research article
Students' perceptions of learning environment in an Indian medical school
Reem Abraham, K Ramnarayan, P Vinod, Sharmila Torke
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:20 (11April2008)
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Research article
Ambulance clinical placements A pilot study of students' experience
Malcolm J Boyle, Brett Williams, Jennifer Cooper, Bridget Adams, Kassie Alford
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:19 (10April2008)
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Research article
Undergraduate technical skills training guided by student tutors Analysis of tutors' attitudes, tutees' acceptance and learning progress in an innovative teaching model
Peter Weyrich, Markus Schrauth, Bernd Kraus, Daniel Habermehl, Nicolai Netzhammer, Stephan Zipfel, Jana Jnger, Reimer Riessen, Christoph Nikendei
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:18 (9April2008)
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Research article
Development of an instrument to assess the impact of an enhanced experiential model on pharmacy students' learning opportunities, skills and attitudes: A retrospective comparative-experimentalist study
Rosemin Kassam, Gary Poole, John B Collins
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:17 (8April2008)
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Research article
Even one star at A level could be "too little, too late" for medical student selection
Chris McManus, Katherine Woolf, Jane E Dacre
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:16 (7April2008)
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Research article
Correcting biases in psychiatric diagnostic practice in Northwest Russia: Comparing the impact of a general educational program and a specific diagnostic training program
Grigory Rezvyy, Alexander Parniakov, Elena Fedulova, Reidun Olstad
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:15 (4April2008)
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Research article
The virtual haptic back: A simulation for training in palpatory diagnosis
John N Howell, Robert R Conatser, Robert L Williams II, Janet M Burns, David C Eland
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:14 (3April2008)
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Research article
Electronic health records in outpatient clinics: Perspectives of third year medical students
Emran Rouf, Heidi S Chumley, Alison E Dobbie
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:13 (31March2008)
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Research article
A virtual computer lab for distance biomedical technology education
Craig Locatis, Anibal Vega, Medha Bhagwat, Wei-Li Liu, Jose Conde
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:12 (13March2008)
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Research article
A web-based Alcohol Clinical Training (ACT) curriculum: Is in-person faculty development necessary to affect teaching?
Daniel P Alford, Jessica M Richardson, Sheila E Chapman, Catherine E Dub, Robert W Schadt, Richard Saitz
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:11 (6March2008)
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Research article
Attitudes toward and experiences of gender issues among physician teachers: A survey study conducted at a university teaching hospital in Sweden
Gunilla Risberg, Eva E Johansson, Gran Westman, Katarina Hamberg
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:10 (26February2008)
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Research article
Research enrichment: evaluation of structured research in the curriculum for dental medicine students as part of the vertical and horizontal integration of biomedical training and discovery
Karl Kingsley, Susan O'Malley, Tanis Stewart, Katherine M Howard
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:9 (19February2008)
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Research article
Enhancing communication skills for pediatric visits through on-line training using video demonstrations
Kathi J Kemper, Jane M Foy, Larry Wissow, Steve Shore
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:8 (11February2008)
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Research article
Clinical training: a simulation program for phlebotomy
Jun-ichi Taniguchi, Kunihiko Matsui, Toshitaka Araki, Kazuhiko Kikawa
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:7 (28January2008)
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Correspondence
e-meducation.org: an open access medical education web portal
Vangelis G Alexiou, Matthew E Falagas
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:6 (24January2008)
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Research article
Perceptions of graduating students from eight medical schools in Vietnam on acquisition of key skills identified by teachers
Luu Ngoc Hoat, Nguyen Minh Son, E Pamela Wright
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:5 (20January2008)
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Research article
Drivers for change in primary care of diabetes following a protected learning time educational event: interview study of practitioners
Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Jo B Middlemass, Kate Ward, Carol Wilkinson
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:4 (19January2008)
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Research article
Can teaching agenda-setting skills to physicians improve clinical interaction quality? A controlled intervention
Hector P Rodriguez, Michael P Anastario, Richard M Frankel, Esosa G Odigie, William H Rogers, Ted von Glahn, Dana G Safran
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:3 (14January2008)
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Correspondence
The need for education on health related-quality of life
Melanie J Calvert, John R Skelton
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:2 (14January2008)
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Research article
Evaluation of a joint Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics international course in Peru
Walter H Curioso, Jacquelyn R Hansen, Arturo Centurion-Lara, Patricia J Garcia, Fredric M Wolf, Sherrilynne Fuller, King K Holmes, Ann Marie Kimball
BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:1 (14January2008)
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