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With research playing a vital role in improving clinical practice, it is important that medical students understand the role of research and submitting articles for publication. Therefore, the aim of this study was to ascertain the experience, motivation and attitude of publishing of medical students. ⋯ Students have a positive attitude towards publishing and they feel it is important. However, it is clear that students require and would welcome education in writing papers and abstracts, skills that they will need in their postgraduate careers.
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Many junior doctors from around the world come to the UK to train and attend professional examinations. ⋯ Some graduates who sit UK postgraduate exams may require additional support prior to taking these examinations.
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Empathy is necessary for communication between patients and physicians to achieve optimal clinical outcomes. ⋯ While significant associations exist between students' self-reported scores on the JSPE and SPs' evaluations of students' empathy, the associations are not large enough to conclude that the two evaluations are redundant.
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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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This study examined US physicians' training in religion and medicine and its association with addressing religious and spiritual issues in clinical encounters. Reports of receiving training were higher for highly spiritual physicians, psychiatrists, and physicians with high numbers of critically ill patients. Discussing religion or spirituality with patients was associated with having received training through a book or CME literature or during Grand Rounds, through one's religious tradition and from other unspecified sources but not with having received such training in medical school.