International Medical Education, Volume 3, Issue 3

(1) The purpose of this project was to create and collect validity evidence for a lifestyle medicine objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) station to assess medical students’ performance related to lifestyle medicine competencies. (2...

Student-centered active learning (SCAL) shifts the focus from the teacher to the student. Implementing SCAL requires the development of new forms of assessment beyond memorization and comprehension. This paper aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of...

Clinical academics experience dual workplaces, namely the clinical and the research environment. However, working in two workplaces leads to difficulties in forming an integrated identity, affecting a person’s work environment and well-being. The aim...

Introduction: In this narrative review, we identified concepts related to the process of transforming a psychiatry curriculum for New Zealand medical students. Method: A literature search was performed on four databases (Embase, Medline, PsycInfo, an...

Background: Clinical reasoning (CR) is fundamental in medical education. However, the Italian curriculum has not incorporated a structured CR format yet. Therefore, we introduced the Clinical Case Discussions (CCD), to medical students attending the...

Over the last decade, initiatives like the Choosing Wisely campaign have promoted the practice of evidence-based, cost-conscious care. However, education surrounding value in medicine has been largely restricted to graduate-level medical education or...

Immunology is an important component of the medical curriculum. It provides a foundation for understanding the cellular and molecular processes by which the body protects itself from external substances and the immunological responses that contribute...

Child abuse affects millions of children globally. Comprehensive training is essential to promote its recognition and trigger appropriate responses to prevent missed opportunities for intervention. We describe a child abuse and child protection train...

Entrustable Professional Activities-based (EPAs-based) assessments gained much interest among clinical educators, especially after the AAMC publication in 2014. In 2016, a standardized tool, the National Clinical Assessment Tool for Medical Students...

Motivation is essential in education, with highly motivated learners engaging more deeply with content and more ably transferring knowledge to new contexts. However, the validity of scales to measure motivation has been underexplored in pre-clerkship...

In recognition of the critical role of residency programs in narrowing healthcare inequalities, Global Health scholarships were introduced at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in 2011. Since then, at least 154 postgraduate students...

Three-dimensional (3D)-printed models with high anatomic fidelity are an increasingly viable tool in simulation-based medical education. One advantage of 3D models is they provide enhanced tactile and spatial understanding of complex anatomy to devel...