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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.

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)

June 2025

Can AI teach medicine? (BMJ feature article)

Change management and innovation in graduate medical education

Efforts in undergraduate medical education to improve socioeconomic status diversity

Experience of medical school faculty in the transition from lectures to active learning: a phenomenographic study

Exploring pre-clinical medical students' perception of and participation in active learning: a mixed-methods transnational study

How do medical students perceive the role of artificial intelligence in management of gastroesophageal reflux disease?

Implementing core entrustable professional activities in undergraduate medical education: a psychometric study

An innovative approach to navigating microaggressions in medical education settings

Mapping the multidimensional factors of medical student resilience development: a scoping review

Medical students’ experiential learning on social determinants of health: a constructivist qualitative study

Online teaching materials and medical student impressions of general practice: lots of rules and guidelines?

Pedagogies of discomfort and disruption: a meta-narrative review of emotions and equity-related pedagogy

Promoting students’ autonomous motivation for the ongoing curriculum using a ‘Societal Impact Project’ with basic psychological needs characteristics

Transforming medical students’ speaking-up behaviors in medical errors: the impact of simulation and personalized debriefing

Unravelling the differences between observation and active participation in simulation-based education

Updated geriatrics competencies for graduating medical students: training physicians to provide age-friendly care

Upholding our PROMISE: increased representation is not enough to foster belonging in graduate medical education

Utilizing natural language processing to analyze student narrative reflections for medical curriculum improvement

Sources

Academic Medicine (May); Australian Journal of General Practice (Apr); BMC Medical Education (May); BMJ, The (May); Journal of Graduate Medical Education (May); Medical Education (Jun); Medical Teacher (issue 6)

May 2025

Anatomy education in low-resourced countries: what are challenges and effective and affordable educational strategies? A qualitative study

Developing culturally competent physicians: empathy, inclusivity, moral distress training and ethical reflections during the Medicine Clerkship

Fostering equity: assessing access to transgender health education in US medical school curricula

How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

Integration of behavioral, social, and humanities sciences into healthcare and education and their alignment with medical education programs

International collaboration in health professions education

Is use of ChatGPT cheating? Students of health professions perceptions

Is there still racism in medical education?

Let’s chat! Integrating ChatGPT in medical student assignments to enhance critical analysis

Medical students’ experience of a patient’s death and their coping strategies: a narrative literature review

Neurology undergraduate medical education: a scoping review

A review of local global health education in post-graduate medical education

SIMBA: online simulation for teaching medical cases to preclinical students—a pilot study

Simulation to improve medical student understanding of the doulas’ role

Student perceptions of narrative feedback in entrustable professional activities

Surviving and thriving in medicine: developing theory-based interventions for students from widening access backgrounds

Training medical students in breast health

Vision 2050: a revolution in academic medicine for better health for all

What influences clinical educators’ motivation to teach? A BEME systematic review and framework synthesis based on self-determination theory

“Who’s watching?”: exploring patients’ acceptance of having their consultations livestreamed for educational purposes

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Apr); BMJ, The (Apr); BMJ Medicine (Apr); Clinical Teacher (Jun); European Journal of Neurology (Mar); Medical Teacher (issue 5)

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