Medical students’ illness-related cognitions
Doctors do not follow guidance when managing their own health and illness. This behaviour may start at medical school. This study aimed to i...
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Podcasts from the journal Medical Education 2011
Podcasts from the journal Medical Education 2011
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20 of 22 episodesCulture in medical education: comparing a Thai and a Canadian residency programme
Globalisation initiatives in medical education are premised on a universal model of medical education. This study was conducted to challenge...
Educational interventions to improve handover in health care: a systematic review
Effective handover within the health care setting is vital to patient safety. Despite published literature discussing strategies to improve...
Improving the recruitment and retention of doctors by training medical students locally
The global shortage of doctors is of concern. This is particularly true in French-speaking regions of New Brunswick, Canada, where there is...
Medical students’ experiences of shame in professional enculturation
Despite the intentions of caregivers not to harm, medical encounters may involve intimidation and induce emotions of shame. Reflection is a...
Understanding the behaviour of newly qualified doctors in acute care contexts
A particularly onerous aspect of the transition from medical student to practising doctor concerns the necessity to be able to rapidly ident...
Teaching operating room conflict management to surgeons: clarifying the optimal approach
Conflict management has been identified as an essential competence for surgeons as they work in operating room (OR) teams; however, the opti...
Putting the expert together again
The study of expertise in medical education has a long history of success. Researchers have identified and elaborated on many dimensions of...
Fifty years of medical education research: waves of migration
Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education talks to Geoff Norman (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Hea...
Looking back to the future: a message for a new generation of medical educators
Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, speaks to Professor Ron Harden, the General Secretary of AMEE, and Professor of Medical Edu...
Do study strategies predict academic performance in medical school?
Study strategies, such as time and study management techniques, seem to be consistently related to achievement even when aptitude is control...
A discussion with Liz Wager of the Committee on Publication Ethics
In this special podcast, Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, talks to Dr Liz Wager, Chair of COPE (Committee on Publication Eth...
Thinking critically about critical thinking: ability, disposition or both?
The objectives of this study were to determine the extent to which clinician-educators agree on definitions of critical thinking and to dete...
Differences in medical students’ explicit discourses of professionalism
Rather than merely acting professionally, medical students are expected to become professionals. Developing an embodied professional persona...
Really Good Stuff from Medical Education
Twice a year, Medical Education publishes a selection of the best short structured reports submitted to its ‘Really Good Stuff: Lessons lear...
How trainees would disclose medical errors: educational implications for training programmes
In this podcast, Editor in Chief of Medical Education Kevin Eva talks to Andrew White (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washin...
Randomised controlled trial of mindfulness practice of medical students’ dress levels
Mindfulness is a well-recognised concept in medical education literature, and many people have written on it. In this podcast, Kevin Eva, Ed...
Reasons selectors give for accepting and rejecting medical applicants before interview
Sandra Nicholson, (General Practioner, Reader of Medical Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine, London) speaks to Editor in C...
Active learning on the ward: outcomes from a comparative trial with traditional methods
Academic activity during internship is essentially practical and ward rounds are traditionally considered the cornerstone of clinical educat...
Test-enhanced learning may be a gender-related phenomenon explained by changes in cortisol level
Charles Kromann, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Education in Copenhagen, Denmark (Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospit...