Medical teacher
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Pre-training evaluation and feedback improve medical students' skills in basic life support.
Evaluation and feedback are two factors that could influence simulation-based medical education and the time when they were delivered contributes their different effects. ⋯ In undergraduate medical students without previous BLS training, pre-training evaluation and feedback improve their performance in followed BLS training.
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Case Reports
Teaching communication and compassionate care skills: an innovative curriculum for pre-clerkship medical students.
Physicians require communications training to improve effective and compassionate care. Clinicians discuss challenging communication issues in existing hospital "Schwartz Rounds." ⋯ Integrating a pre-clerkship communications curriculum may help improve future physicians' interactions with patients and families. Implications of this curriculum for medical education are discussed.
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Distress is prevalent among residents and often attributed to rigors of training. ⋯ Our results indicate a high prevalence of distress among graduating medical students across all specialty disciplines before they even begin residency training.
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There are many forms of technology used in medical education, only some of which are directly focused on the learning process. After more than a decade of disruptive change around e-learning we may be moving into a period of consolidation. This paper explores the evidence for such a change and the implications for teaching, learning and research in medical education.
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Currently, there is no consensus on the core competencies required for emergency medicine (EM) clerkships in Canada. Existing EM curricula have been developed through informal consensus or local efforts. The Delphi process has been used extensively as a means for establishing consensus. ⋯ This study demonstrated that a modified Delphi process can result in a strong consensus around a realistic number of core competencies for EM clerkships. We propose that such a method could be used by other medical specialties and health professions to develop rotation-specific core competencies.