Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

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.

April 2025

Competency based medical education implementation at the institutional level: a cross-discipline comparative program evaluation

Electronic flashcards in health professions education: a scoping review

Establishing TELLme – an online platform for self-directed, formative assessment of knowledge acquisition across an undergraduate medical curriculum

An evidence-informed pedagogical approach to support professional identity formation in medical students (AMEE Guide No. 171)

Exploring the potential of pantomime games in medical education: non-verbal exercise

First-generation low-income individuals in medicine: a scoping review

"Having support at work 'is different' and important": a qualitative study of virtual peer discussion groups with medical school faculty

Implementing telemedicine into clinical training through pre-recorded video consultations

Integrating generative artificial intelligence into medical education: curriculum, policy, and governance strategies

Is it OK if I cheat? Implementation of, and student response to, iterative change in an undergraduate medical degree high stakes OSCE due to issues of academic integrity

Is the dissection of cadavers a necessary part of medical education?

Meaningful patient participation in health care education: a theoretically informed study exploring boundaries and identities

Medical improv: the training we have been missing

‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future

The shadow economy of effort: unintended consequences of pass/fail grading on medical students’ clinical education and patient care skills

Stimulating medical student professional identity formation through mentored longitudinal partnerships with patient teachers

Towards precision well-being in medical education

Unveiling the paradoxes of implementing post graduate competency based medical education programs

Validity evidence for using virtual, interactive patient encounters to teach and assess clinical reasoning for first-year medical students

Sources

Academic Medicine (Apr); BMJ, The (Mar); Medical Teacher (issue 4); Nature (Mar)

March 2025

Analog serious games for medical education: a scoping review

Assessment tools for patient notes in medical education: a scoping review

Blind spots in medical education – international perspectives

Breaking down barriers and building up facilitators of lecture free curriculum in medical education: an interpretive structural modeling

Can ChatGPT generate practice question explanations for medical students, a new faculty teaching tool?

ChatGPT to generate clinical vignettes for teaching and multiple-choice questions for assessment: a randomized controlled experiment

Community-based learning in medical education: a starting guide and lessons learned

The effect of different patient-based learning models on student perceptions of empathy, engagement, knowledge, and learning experience

Embracing the illusion of explanatory depth: a strategic framework for using iterative prompting for integrating large language models in healthcare education

Empathy in family medicine postgraduate education: a mixed studies systematic review

Examining medical students’ experience of gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment from clinical teachers at a UK medical school

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Feeling the responsibility: exploring the emotional experiences of final-year medical students when carrying out clinical tasks

How does guided group reflection work to support professional identity formation in postgraduate medical education: a scoping review

Incorporation of trauma-informed care into entrustable professional activities for medical student assessment

Indian medical students are using social media to challenge hierarchies in medical education

Leveraging evaluation of quality on medical education research with ChatGPT

Medical teachers’ identity learning during major curriculum renewal: a landscapes of practice perspective

More than body parts: a new ethos of anatomy education

Perspectives and experiences of health sciences academics regarding ChatGPT: a qualitative study

Pictures have been teaching doctors medicine for centuries − a medical illustrator explains how

The positive and negative consequences of stress and its relationship with coping in medical students: a qualitative study

A realist evaluation of how, why and when objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) are experienced as an authentic assessment of clinical preparedness

Secondary traumatic stress in medical students during clinical clerkships

Twelve tips for developing simulation-based mastery learning clinical skills checklists

‘We’re like Spider-Man; with great power comes great responsibility’: coaches’ experiences supporting struggling medical students

What guides student learning in the clinical years: a mixed methods study exploring study behaviours prior to the UK Medical Licensing Assessment (UKMLA)

Sources

Academic Medicine (Mar); BMJ, The (Feb); Conversation, The (Jan-Feb); Medical Teacher (issues 2-3)

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)

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