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Subject guide for all QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences students and staff. Features video guides to planning and running database searches, 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.

February 2025

Adopting a pedagogy of connection for medical education

Anti-racism curricula in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review

Are serious games seriously good at preparing students for clinical practice?

Effectiveness of deliberate practices versus conventional lecture in trauma training for medical students

Establishing new medical schools in diverse contexts: a novel conceptual framework for success

Formed in context: a mixed-methods study of medical students' mindsets in an Eastern culture

Fostering the clinician as teacher: a realist review

Interventions for undergraduate and postgraduate medical learners with academic difficulties: a BEME systematic review update

Learning by making – student-made models and creative projects for medical education: systematic review with qualitative synthesis

Making surgical education intuitive: a surgical robotics primer for pre-clinical medical students

Medical school selection is a sociohistorical embedded activity: a comparison of five countries

A novel, mutually beneficial student-faculty partnership to develop real-time formative assessments aligning with the preclinical undergraduate medical curriculum

Personality and interest in general practice: results from an online survey among medical students

Plugging the leaky pipeline: engaging female medical students in radiology education

Primary care in rural areas: a qualitative study on medical students’ images and experiences of working in rural areas in southern Germany

Situations that prompt teachers in problem-based curricula to reflect on their beliefs, identity and mission

The social construction of time and its influence on medical education

A systematic review of the impact of artificial intelligence on educational outcomes in health professions education

Twelve tips for LGBT+-inclusive undergraduate and postgraduate medical education

Understanding cultural dynamics shaping clinical reasoning skills: a dialogical exploration

What are we teaching medical students and physician learners about the social determinants of health? A scoping review

What's your experience? A duoethnographic dialogue to advance disability inclusion in medical education

Sources

Academic Medicine (Jan); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jan); BMC Medical Education (Jan); BMC Primary Care (Dec); Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology (Jan-Feb); Medical Education (Jan-Feb); Medical Teacher (issue 1)

January 2025

Bias in observed assessments in medical education: a scoping review

Can I phone a friend? Exploring the use of digital devices in clinical exams

Draw & Doodle Simulation: a colorful strategy to prepare medical teams for electronic dance music festival emergencies

Facts to snacks: evaluating the effectiveness of bite-sized animations in teaching palliative care to medical students

Going beyond competencies: building blocks for a patient- and population-centered medical curriculum

How to … overcome challenges in implementing escape rooms in medical education

How to teach clinical reasoning in the context of rare diseases in undergraduate medical education

“I say I’m kind of out”: an insider qualitative study of queer medical students

Interprofessional education for healthcare professionals: a BEME realist review of what works, why, for whom and in what circumstances in undergraduate health sciences education

Qualitative exploration of the #MeTooMedicine online discourse: "holding beacons of light to shine in the corners they are hoping to keep dark"

Reports of burnout among historically marginalized and female graduating medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Restorative justice practices as a foundation for medical education innovation

Shaping minds and hearts in medical education: embedding and implementing a personal and professional development curriculum

Simulation training to interrupt microaggressions

Slow and steady: using inclusive language to enhance academic medicine’s social accountability

Social media quality in undergraduate medical education: a reconceptualisation and taxonomy

Statement of partnership and humility: a structural intervention to improve equity and justice in medical education

Student medical education masterclasses: diversifying the academic pipeline

A systematic review of virtual elective programmes for medical students

Transforming healthcare with integrated inter-professional education in a research-driven medical school

Trigger warnings in medical student education: a scoping review

Twelve tips for supporting medical learners through high-stakes assessment challenges

Using case-based learning to teach evidence-based practice: a pilot study

Sources

Academic Medicine (Dec); American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Jan); Clinical Teacher, The (Feb); Medical Teacher (issue 12)

December 2024

Addressing medial student knowledge deficits in ‘hospital-to-home’ transitions of care using a constructivism theory-based workshop intervention

Changes in information seeking patterns of medical students in the social media and artificial intelligence age: preliminary findings

Exploring medical student perceptions of barriers to clinical reasoning in high-fidelity simulation: a qualitative study

Exploring the breadth of medicine: 8-year outcomes of a brief clinical summer immersion for premedical students

From clinic to community: an exploration of service-learning in medical education

Improving prescribing learning in problem-based learning

Is virtual reality enhancing dental anatomy education? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Low-cost cold porcelain anatomical models: an affordable complementary teaching tool

Medical students’ perspectives of reflection for their professional development

A narrative orientation for the longitudinal integrated clerkship

Patient video cases in large-group medical student teaching: a qualitative study of learner and educator perspectives

Peer teachers as ultrasound instructors? – a systematic literature review of peer teaching concepts in undergraduate ultrasound education

Perception of undergraduate medical students and examiners towards grand objective structured clinical examination

Preparation for practice: what are students learning for?

Preparing students to address the social determinants of health in integrated care settings

Satisfaction and learning experience of students using online learning platforms for medical education

Scenario-based learning: how can it contribute to clinical education?

Shaping competencies for culturally safe practice among medical students

Social media for learning: a qualitative exploration of the factors that impact clinical learners' attitudes and intentions

Teaching multimorbidity to medical students

Sources

BMC Medical Education (Nov); Clinical Teacher, The (Dec)

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