2026 September - 42 articles
Scholarly activity and teaching are recognized components of radiology training, but their distribution across residency years is poorly characterized in Italy. We conducted an anonymous cross-sectional online survey of Italian radiology residents be...
Background: Health Informatics (HI) education aims to prepare graduates to contribute to digitally enabled healthcare. However, HI programme evaluations have largely focused on employment and career outcomes, providing limited insight into graduates&...
Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare systems and medical education worldwide. However, data on medical students’ usage patterns, perceptions, and motivation toward AI remain limited in Tunisia. This study aimed...
Introduction: Scientific Competence (SC) is a central objective in medical education, but its conceptualization remains insufficiently differentiated, particularly regarding the relationship between evidence use and participation in scientific knowle...
Background: Fiberoptic bronchoscopy training is constrained by high equipment costs and limited patient availability. This pilot feasibility and usability study describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a Simulation-Based VR Bronchoscop...
Background: Conversational artificial intelligence (AI), including chatbots, large language models, virtual agents, and embodied conversational systems, is increasingly being introduced into healthcare, rehabilitation, education, and professional pra...
Background: General Practice is facing workforce shortages across Europe. In Italy, the estimated shortage was 5575 General Practitioners in 2024, with high retirement rates and persistent difficulties in attracting new physicians to the profession....
General practitioners (GPs) are at the forefront of stunting interventions, but only a few studies have examined their understanding of growth monitoring. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness of massive open online course (MOOC)-bas...
This study investigated academic and environmental predictors of national licensing examination success among physical therapy graduates in Thailand, examining overall academic achievement, domain-specific competencies (Code 01: Law/Ethics/Administra...
Generative artificial intelligence has been rapidly adopted by university students, yet there is limited evidence describing how and why medical students use it, particularly in regional settings. This cross-sectional study examined the use of genera...
Evolutionary medicine (EM) applies evolutionary principles to explain disease mechanisms and improve clinical practice, yet it remains underrepresented in medical education, particularly in non-Western settings. This study investigated Egyptian medic...
Background/Objectives: Mentoring may support professional development in medicine, but experiences and perceived programme availability may differ across career stages. We aimed to describe previous mentoring participation, perceived availability, sa...
Background/Objectives: Empathy is a fundamental component of patient-centered care and plays a critical role in the physician–patient relationship. This study aimed to evaluate empathy levels among undergraduate medical students at a medical un...
Large language model-enabled virtual patients may expand access to clinical skills practice by supporting explicitly defined practice tasks. This program evaluation examined medical students’ awareness, use, and perceptions of the McMaster Virt...
Background and Objectives: Digital tools are now embedded in anesthesia and intensive care, but access to them, and in particular to digital educational resources, is distributed unevenly across professional groups. This study describes how nurses, r...
Background/Objectives: Opportunities for pre-service midwifery students to manage postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), a high-risk, infrequent emergency, are limited. Virtual reality (VR) can provide contextual decision-making practice, whereas mannequin tra...
Background: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has been the backbone of assessment in medical education, and the number of stations required to achieve sufficient reliability in high-stakes examinations is an important consideration...
Introduction: The demand for structured training in orthopaedic surgery, particularly in total hip arthroplasty (THA), is increasing. Cadaver labs provide valuable experience for surgical access and anatomical exposure; however, the availability of s...
Medical residency is a demanding stage of specialty training characterized by extensive clinical exposure, heavy workloads, and ongoing knowledge acquisition. Characterizing residents’ learning-style preferences may help residency programs refi...
Background/Objectives: Romania faces a shortage of family physicians, particularly in rural areas. Undergraduate Family Medicine rotations may influence students’ perceptions before residency selection, but the contribution of rural versus urba...
Medical schools are increasingly reducing required contact hours and incorporating self-directed learning strategies, yet the impact of these curricular changes on academic performance remains uncertain. This retrospective cohort study compared perfo...
The story of International Medical Education (IME) began only five years ago with a simple but ambitious vision [...]
The demand for mental health services is rising, and given the continued shortage of mental health specialists, primary care remains a critical setting for mental health treatment. Training emerging leaders in primary care to integrate interprofessio...
Background: Research on emotional intelligence and its associations with authentic leadership, general self-efficacy, and perceived stress among allied health students, particularly radiography students, remains scarce. This study described the level...
Background: Nursing students spend a substantial proportion of their education in clinical practice; hence, the quality of these environments plays a critical role in shaping students’ learning outcomes. While research finds that nursing studen...
Background: Nursing education has evolved in response to changing social, cultural, political, and healthcare contexts. Although Cultural–Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) has increasingly been applied in medical education research, its applica...
Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability globally, and a major rehabilitation priority, yet nursing education often does not translate burden evidence into first-contact actions across care settings. This article aimed...
Feedback is a key component of medical education and is essential for progression throughout medical training. While extensive literature describes best practices for delivering feedback, less is known about the critical role of feedback culture and...
Background: The global shortage of qualified nursing faculty continues to challenge schools of nursing by limiting program capacity and contributing to difficulties in recruiting and retaining new educators. Although mentoring has been widely recogni...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate radiography students’ perceptions of the usefulness of hands-on 3D-printed models for supporting their understanding of key image quality concepts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Student...
Recruitment and admission of highly qualified applicants to Doctor of Medicine (MD) programs are vital components of many academic institutions. We aimed to develop a structured curriculum to facilitate consistent and mission-aligned review of applic...
Drawing-centred and drawing-associated visual-representation strategies are used in anatomy and histology education, but the literature spans learner-generated drawing, guided drawing, screencasts, multisensory approaches, and model-based visual abst...
Background and Objectives: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have entered medical education faster than guidance for their responsible use. Although a rapidly expanding 2024–2026 literature has examined generative AI adoption, at...
Artificial intelligence (AI), treated in this study as an umbrella term for AI-enabled clinical and educational technologies rather than as a single platform, is reshaping medical education, including how diagnostic skills, treatment planning, and pa...
Wasteful care is a prevalent, costly problem in the United States. Medical schools are addressing this by teaching about value-based care. However, students still struggle with the application of this concept. We hypothesized that this struggle may b...
Burnout among internal medicine (IM) and internal medicine–pediatrics (Med–Peds) residents is at epidemic levels, yet few studies use systems-based methods to identify the specific work-system factors that drive it. Guided by the National...
Since the 1960s, Bioethics, Law and Deontology have become increasingly integrated into healthcare education in response to the growing ethical, legal and professional complexity of clinical practice. This national cross-sectional comparative study a...
Background: Clinical reasoning is a core midwifery competency, yet adopting standardized NANDA–NIC–NOC frameworks remains challenging due to perceived abstraction. Objective: To explore the effectiveness of a pedagogical intervention comb...
Early clinical exposure (ECE) has been associated with increased confidence, professionalism, and career exploration in undergraduate medical education. Student-run free clinics (SRFCs), such as the Health Outreach Project (HOP) at Drexel University...
Standardized Letters of Recommendation (SLORs) were introduced in the United States and Canada to address limitations of narrative letters in residency selection by improving objectivity, comparability, and reliability. This review evaluates their st...
Introduction: Traditional instruments for measuring lifelong learning of health professionals fail to capture digital-age learning, creating a critical measurement disconnect. To address this gap, we developed a 16-item Self-Pursuits, Aspirations, an...
Inner Triangle Outer Diamond (ITOD) Framework, presented and published in 2025, informed and guided the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics education into a Medical Humanities course for medical students. Central to the ITOD Framework...
