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Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Subject guide for all QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences students and staff. Features guides to planning and running database searches, finding grey literature, and using EndNote for reference management.

QUB Medical Education current awareness bulletin

This bulletin lists some of the latest papers on medical/clinical education. These might help to trigger research ideas in students who are unsure of topics to pursue for their medical/clinical education essays, dissertations etc.

To receive new issues of this bulletin via email, please contact Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

September 2025

Accuracy, satisfaction, and impact of custom GPT in acquiring clinical knowledge: potential for AI-assisted medical education
Application of augmented reality technology for obstetrics and gynecology teaching among undergraduates

Artificial intelligence in health professions education assessment

Bridging early medical education and health systems improvement: a multi-faceted faculty development program to enhance engagement and impact

Competency-based medical education at the front lines of patient care

Developing a community of scholars for students, residents, and early-career researchers: MedEd Collaborative - a health professions education research collaborative

Dialogues with artificial intelligence: exploring medical students’ perspectives on ChatGPT

Digital literacy across disciplines scale for medical students: development, validation, and analysis

Exploring aspects of medical students’ professional identity through their reflective expressions

From quiet quitting to open dialogue in medical education: longitudinal student perspectives on the factors shaping student engagement

Hierarchy hurts: a comparative cross-sectional analysis of empathy and its determinants in medical, midwifery, and nursing students

Ideas for mentorship in oncology for medical students and early career doctors: insights from a UK-wide oncology mentorship scheme

Impact of simulation training on communication skills and informed consent practices in medical students - a randomised controlled trial

Integrating well-being into a health systems science curriculum

Integration of early clinical exposure into curriculum enhances self-assessment of professional competencies in medical practice

Medical education competency frameworks for climate and planetary health: a scoping review

Medical education for the future generation - why you should listen to students’ voices

Menstrual challenges and quality of life among medical students - a cross sectional study

Older adult mentoring programs for medical students: a scoping review

A randomised cross-over trial assessing the impact of AI-generated individual feedback on written online assignments for medical students

Refining AI perspectives: assessing the impact of AI curricular on medical students’ attitudes towards artificial intelligence

A scoping review of obesity educational interventions in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education

Should medical school grading be tiered or pass/fail? A scoping review of conceptual arguments and empirical data

Should medical students be encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence to study?

Simulation-based education’s impact on medical students’ tolerance of uncertainty: a grounded theory study

Soft skills in dental student curricula: an evidence and gap map

Strategies for enhancing the quality of virtual education: perspectives of medical sciences faculty and students - a qualitative study

Strength of motivation and academic performance of medical students: a longitudinal study

Student-performed periodontal therapy: retrospective cohort study on outcomes and related recommendations for enhancing undergraduate periodontal education

Students as pawns: a qualitative study of the impacts of encountering incivility on medical students during clinical placements

A systems approach to improving well-being in graduate medical education

Technological literacy in biomedical laboratory science education: a mixed-methods study of curricula and student perspectives

Training the trainees in robotic surgery – a pilot scheme in the United Kingdom

What constitutes a medical miseducation? Ten mishaps, readily remedied

Sources

Academic Medicine (Aug); BMC Medical Education (17th Jul-8th Aug); BMJ, The (Jul); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Journal of Climate Change and Health, The (Sep-Oct); Medical Teacher (#9); NEJM (Jul); Obesity Reviews (Sep)

August 2025

Advancing women physicians in academic medicine: a scoping review

Associations between daily wellness behaviours and outcomes among medical students: a longitudinal nightly survey study

Beyond the classroom: the transformative experience of short rural immersion programs for health professional students - a narrative review

The combined impact of AI and VR on interdisciplinary learning and patient safety in healthcare education: a narrative review

Computer vision syndrome and its relationship with sleep and fatigue in medical students

Creating custom GPTs for faculty development: an example using the Johari Window and Crucial Conversation frameworks for providing feedback to struggling students

Development of medical leadership competence during undergraduate medical students’ final year – a cross-sectional cohort study

The dynamic case-based learning model: conducive to enhancing the practical learning effectiveness of dermatology for medical students

Effect of coping interventions on performance of medical students during objective structured clinical examination: a randomized controlled trial

Effects of virtual reality and layered tooth model training on manual dexterity in preclinical dental education

Enhancing AI literacy in undergraduate pre-medical education through student associations: an educational intervention

Enhancing dermatology education: a short-course intervention for final-year medical students

Enhancing medical students’ diagnostic accuracy of infectious keratitis with AI-generated images

Enhancing radiographic interpretation: effects of gamification on medical students' knowledge, skills, and satisfaction — a quasi-experimental study

Experiences of medical students and doctors with dyslexia: a systematic review

Exploring student perceptions of the Osmosis digital learning platform in undergraduate medical education and its influences on motivation and inclusivity

Feasibility study of using GPT for history-taking training in medical education: a randomized clinical trial

How shame shaped me: exploring the impact of shame on professional identity formation in medical trainees

Impact of generative artificial intelligence on the professional qualities curriculum and reflection essays during physician training

Implementing an Internet of Things-based learning platform into medical education: addressing educational challenges with innovative solutions

Integrating digital technologies into teaching embodied knowledge in the context of physical examination

Influence of virtual reality simulation (excluding augmented reality) on endodontic learning experiences of undergraduate dental students: a systematic review

Key disparities between first-generation and continuing-generation medical students: a quantitative analysis

Knowledge and perception of artificial lntelligence education among undergraduate healthcare students

Medical undergraduate students’ awareness and perspectives on artificial intelligence: a developing nation’s context

Motivation and socialization during summer predict medical students’ success: an artificial intelligence study

Navigating digital assessments in medical education: findings from a scoping review

Oral health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors (KAB) of dental students: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Qualities medical students value in resident educators: a mixed-methods analysis of medical student nominations for teaching awards

Readiness to use artificial intelligence: a comparative study among dental faculty members and students

Retention of physiology knowledge among medical students in basic science: a cross-sectional study

The student voice in quality assurance: what factors make for a great GP placement in the eyes of undergraduate medical students?

Study the past if you would define the future: historical methods in medical education scholarship

Teaching critical appraisal and research methodology to dental students and practitioners: a scoping review

Theoretical models to guide undergraduate medical curriculum development: an integrative review

Tolerance for uncertainty and medical students' specialty choices: a myth revisited

Under the radar: how participating in a student organization can shape medical students' professional identity

Undergraduate students’ performance and perception of video-recordings versus live demonstrations for teaching orthodontic laboratory procedures: a randomized trial

Undergraduate medical students’ perspectives on research education and their confidence in research skills: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

Using artificial intelligence to provide a ‘flipped assessment’ approach to medical education learning opportunities

Using generative artificial intelligence when writing letters of recommendation

Sources

Academic Medicine (Jul); BMC Medical Education (up to 16th Jul); Internal Medicine Journal (Jul); Journal of Dentistry (Sep); Medical Education (Jul-Aug); Medical Teacher (#8)

July 2025

Application of artificial intelligence in medical education: a meta-ethnographic synthesis

Being human: envisioning the future of museum-based education for health professionals

Can routine EPA-based assessments predict OSCE performances of undergraduate medical students?

Igniting the fire and seeing through the smoke: enabling medical students to see themselves as future clinical academics

Integrating gender-inclusive initiatives in medical school in Rwanda: faculty and student experiences at the University of Global Health Equity

The learning-teaching nexus: medical students' motivations to engage in peer-assisted learning

Medical students’ attitudes toward providing patients with audio recordings of their medical encounters: a cross-sectional online survey

Medical students’ perceptions of the best clinical teaching

Preparing future healthcare professionals for evidence-based decision-making using health technology assessment as an experiential learning tool

Reliability and validity of the respect factor in student evaluations of clinical educators

Strategies to develop an efficient feedback system in medical education and its outcome – an interventional study

Strategies to increase accessibility for students with disabilities in health professional education programs: a scoping review

Teaching mass casualty incident management to senior medical students by three-dimensional tabletop exercise without lecture

To use or not to use: ERIC database for medical education research

Twelve tips to afford students agency in programmatic assessment

Uncovering reflections of preclinical medical students from clinical shadowing: a thematic analysis

The use of clinical teaching associates (CTAs) in teaching male intimate examination to medical students: a randomised controlled trial

Using hologram-based augmented reality in anatomy learning: the TEACHANATOMY randomized trial

Virtual and augmented reality in undergraduate medical education in psychiatry: a systematic review

Virtual multiple mini interviews: implementation and evaluation for undergraduate medical, dental, and oral health degrees

Sources

Academic Medicine (Jun); BMC Medical Education (Jun); Clinical Teacher, The (Aug); Medical Teacher (#7)

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