Sociocultural factors affecting first-year medical students ’ adjustment to a PBL program at an African medical school
Besides regulatory learning skills, learning also requires students to relate to their social context and negotiate it as they transition and adjust to medical training. As such, there is a need to consider an... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 13, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Masego B. Kebaetse, Dominic Griffiths, Gaonyadiwe G. Mokone, Mpho S. Mogodi, Brigid G. Conteh, Oathokwa Nkomazana, John Wright, Rosemary Falama and Maikutlo Kebaetse Tags: Research Source Type: research

Nursing students ’ emotions, educational concerns, and the impact of study careers and professional futures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
COVID-19 is a challenge to education systems worldwide. The aim of the study was to explore the impact of COVID-19-pandemic-related emotions and COVID-19-related concern for education on the study careers and ... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 13, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Miaojing Song, Lin Zhang, Qiqi Ji, Pengjuan Ji, Jiashuang Xu, Yian Chen and Leilei Guo Tags: Research Source Type: research

Interprofessional collaboration skills and motivation one year after an interprofessional educational intervention for undergraduate medical and nursing students
The increasingly complex patient care in the twenty-first century is delivered by interprofessional health care teams. Interprofessional collaboration can be taught during interprofessional education. However,... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 11, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Carolyn Joyce Teuwen, Rashmi A. Kusurkar, Hermien Schreurs, Hester E. M. Daelmans and Saskia M. Peerdeman Tags: Research Source Type: research

Graduate medical education well-being directors in the United States: who are they, and what does the role entail?
Institutional Graduate Medical Education (GME) Well-being Director (WBD) roles have recently emerged in the United States to support resident and fellow well-being. However, with a standard position descriptio... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Larissa R. Thomas, Jonathan A. Ripp and Jennifer G. Duncan Tags: Research Source Type: research

Investigating the role of clinical exposure on motivational self-regulation skills in medical students based on cognitive apprenticeship model
The importance of motivation regulation in medical students is highly significant due to their unique educational circumstances, such as clinical exposure. However, the role of clinical exposure in learning mo... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Mahla Salajegheh, Azadeh Rooholamini and Ali Norouzi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Developing a national undergraduate medical education pain management and substance use disorder curriculum to address the opioid crisis: a program evaluation pilot study
Pain and addiction are one of the most common reasons for adults to seek health care, yet educational programs focused on pain are often underrepresented in medical school curricula. In January 2021, the Assoc... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: N. Dalgarno, J. Turnnidge, N. Cofie, R. van Wylick, J. Mulder, F. Kirby, A. Hastings-Truelove and L. Graves Tags: Research Source Type: research

Professional values at the beginning of medical school: a quasi-experimental study
Teaching professionalism in medical schools is central to medical education and society. We evaluated how medical students view the values of the medical profession on their first day of medical school and the... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Sandra Vilagra, Marlon Vilagra, Renata Giaxa, Alice Miguel, Lahis W. Vilagra, Mariana Kehl, Milton A. Martins and Patricia Tempski Tags: Research Source Type: research

The relationship between Empathy and listening styles is complex: implications for doctors in training
Effective communication is the key to a successful relationship between doctors and their patients. Empathy facilitates effective communication, but physicians vary in their ability to empathize with patients.... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Amir Beheshti, Farzin Tahmasbi Arashlow, Ladan Fata, Farzaneh Barzkar and Hamid R. Baradaran Tags: Research Source Type: research

Clearing the confusion about post-accreditation monitoring, meta-evaluation and meta-accreditation
We have recently published the experience of the accreditation body of undergraduate medical education in Iran on developing and validating standards based on the WFME framework (Gandomkar et al., BMC Med Educ... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 7, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Roghayeh Gandomkar, Azim Mirzazadeh and Tahereh Changiz Tags: Matters Arising Source Type: research

A blueprint for success: lessons learned from developing the official guide to Iranian undergraduate medical education accreditation
We are excited to contribute our thoughts and insights to the discussion initiated by Gandomkar et al. in their article on the accreditation system in Iran (Gandomkar et al., BMC Med Educ 23:379, 2023). As ind... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 7, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Mahdi Aghabagheri, Babak Sabet, Abtin Heidarzadeh, Ebrahim Kalantar, Ali Norouzi and Maryam Alizadeh Tags: Matters Arising Source Type: research

Challenges faced by teachers of postgraduate health professions blended learning programs: a qualitative analysis
Blended learning, which integrates classroom face-to-face teaching with both asynchronous and synchronous online learning elements, has swiftly gained acceptance in educational environments. However, the imple... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 7, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Sana Shah, Usman Mahboob, Syed Muhammad Junaid, Sana Siddiqui, Brekhna Jamil and Saadia Rehman Tags: Research Source Type: research

The co-development and evaluation of an e-learning course on spinal cord injury physical activity counselling: a randomized controlled trial
Health, fitness and lifestyle professionals can play important roles in promoting physical activity in groups at risk of developing an inactive lifestyle, such as people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Tailored... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 6, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Femke Hoekstra, Heather L. Gainforth, Rogier Broeksteeg, Stephanie Corras, Delaney Collins, Electra Eleftheriadou, Sonja Gaudet, Emily E. Giroux, Laura S. Kuipers, Shannon McCallum, Jasmin K. Ma, Erica de Passill é, Diane Rakiecki, Shannon Rockall, Rita Tags: Research Source Type: research

Systemized approach to equipping medical students with naloxone: a student-driven initiative to combat the opioid crisis
Naloxone is an effective and safe opioid reversal medication now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with or without a prescription. Despite this, naloxone dissemination lags at a t... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 6, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Shahin A. Saberi, Sydney Moore, Sienna Li, Rory Vu Mather, Mary B. Daniels, Amrita Shahani, Antje Barreveld, Todd Griswold, Patrick McGuire and Hilary S. Connery Tags: Research Source Type: research

Development and validation of self-assessment instrument to measure the digital professionalism of healthcare professionals using social media
The use of social media across the globe has risen incrementally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these sites undeniably provided new avenues for professional networking but also led to a surge in cases of onlin... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 6, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Shazia Imran, Rahila Yasmeen and Memoona Mansoor Tags: Research Source Type: research

Knowledge, attitude, and practice of dental health professionals toward dental impression disinfection protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia – a cross-sectional study
Despite the updated guidelines on dental impression disinfection protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, adherence to such procedures has not been studied among dental health professionals in Saudi Arabia. Und... (Source: BMC Medical Education)
Source: BMC Medical Education - March 6, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Abdullah Salman Binassfour, Mohammad Abdul Baseer and Navin Anand Ingle Tags: Research Source Type: research