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Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) may support clinical decision-making but introduce automation bias when incorrect recommendations influence users. This study aimed to determine the occurrence of harmful automation bias among undergraduate ra...

Background: Limited clinical exposure during obstetrics rotations hinders students’ ability to develop hands-on delivery skills. Simulation offers a risk-free environment for practicing procedures but also for objective evaluation of procedural...

Healthcare educators face the challenge of adapting to new and innovative teaching practices to engage learners and support them to achieve learning outcomes. Educational technologies can assist with this, and extended reality, including virtual, mix...

Background/Objectives: Cancer genomic testing presents unique communication and educational challenges for healthcare providers, requiring specialized training approaches. We developed and evaluated a communication skills training program specificall...

Failure is inevitable in medicine, yet the ideal of the infallible physician contributes to its stigma, leaving students unprepared and vulnerable to self-blame and distress. This study explored medical students’ experiences of failure in clini...

Background: Biostatistical competence is essential to evidence-based clinical reasoning, yet biostatistics is often taught as a stand-alone course. This scoping review mapped how biostatistics is taught and assessed in medical and health professions...

Background: Standard setting methods (SSMs) are essential for determining defensible pass marks in health professional education. While numerous SSMs exist, a comprehensive assessment comparing their outcomes is lacking. This study aimed to synthesiz...

Despite growing recognition of health disparities affecting people with disabilities (PWD), most medical schools provide limited disability-specific training, and evidence on optimal curricular design is limited. This study aimed to evaluate changes...

Undergraduate medical education has expanded and diversified substantially over recent decades, yet its global research landscape remains insufficiently characterised. This study aimed to describe the evolution, thematic structure, and scientific imp...

Objectives: to evaluate physiotherapy students’ perceptions of an adjunct near-peer simulation (NP-simulation) programme, examine the preliminary psychometric properties of three evaluation instruments, and compare practical examination perform...

Handheld devices have made hands-on point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training more accessible, but evidence from routine undergraduate teaching remains limited. We describe the implementation and immediate outcomes of a short abdominal POCUS workshop...

Teaching is a critical component of medicine. Many institutions offer faculty programs to develop their teaching skills, and some offer education electives to medical students. This exploratory study describes the implementation and participants&rsqu...

This systematic review examined virtual reality (VR) interventions in higher and health professions education and their alignment with the AMIA foundational domains underpinning CAHIIM accreditation to inform competency-based health informatics (HI)...

Primary care shortages are especially acute in underserved communities, and student interest in these careers is limited. This brief report evaluates a six-month extracurricular Primary Care Scholars Program that aims to address this gap. Thirty firs...

Early-career health researchers who choose to pursue an academic position are expected to develop and implement a sustained, translational research program that contributes knowledge to their disciplines. Planning this research trajectory can seem da...

Background: Travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical education and residency recruitment. National organizations including ACGME and AAN recommended virtual interviews for adult and pediatric residency programs. This study p...

Higher education in health professions often faces a pedagogical disconnect between theoretical basic science instruction and the development of clinical empathy, social responsibility, and interprofessional competencies. To address this gap, this st...

Background: Gaps in obesity medicine education remain in undergraduate and graduate medical education. As obesity impacts many chronic diseases, this gap is significant for the overall educational program. Our aim was to develop and evaluate a multi-...

Background: Formative assessment (FA) coupled with structured feedback is increasingly recognized as a means of supporting learning in human anatomy, a foundational yet challenging discipline for first-year nursing students. This study examined first...

Objectives: To describe urology rotation exit-assessment outcomes and explore variation across resident subgroups. Methods: This retrospective single-center study included all 130 eligible residents who completed a urology rotation and exit assessmen...

Background: Cadaveric dissection remains foundational in anatomy education, while virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a potential complementary or alternative modality. This randomized, curriculum-embedded modified AB/BA crossover study evaluated VR-...

Introduction: Sex and gender affect health, clinical reasoning, treatment decisions, and communication. Medical education should enable students to recognize clinically relevant sex- and gender-related differences without reinforcing stereotypes. The...

Background/Objectives: Medical education requires assessment of students’ capabilities across digital technologies, health data, and artificial intelligence (AI). Existing instruments address related constructs but differ in their measurement s...

Self-efficacy in clinical performance reflects nursing students’ confidence in their ability to perform clinical activities and is an important contributor to competence and confidence at graduation. Understanding and evaluating this construct...

Manual dexterity is fundamental to preclinical dental training, yet opportunities for standardized early psychomotor practice remain limited. This study evaluated changes in simulator-based manual dexterity task performance following a curriculum-emb...

Caring behaviors are fundamental to healthcare delivery, yet preliminary research suggested potential gaps in how medical students describe their caring attributes. This exploratory study investigated self-rated caring capacity, emotional detachment,...

Background: Online postgraduate (PG) public health education must develop higher-order competence and readiness for practice. Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) may enhance feedback, simulation and scaffolding, but may also substitute for lea...

Background: Clinical placements are a cornerstone of workplace-based learning in the health professions, yet limited evidence exists to guide decisions regarding the duration of clinical education experiences (CEEs). This study explored and described...

Background: Undergraduate curricula rarely give medical students direct exposure to the non-physician professionals who make radiology practice possible. This study evaluated interprofessional awareness outcomes of the Radiology Kingdom, a self-direc...

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...