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On Becoming And Being An International Medical Educator, Michelle Mclean
On Becoming And Being An International Medical Educator, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
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Medical Students Learning Communication Skills In A Second Language: Empathy And Expectations, Muhammad Hashim, Stella Major, Deen Mirza, Engela Prinsloo, Ossama Osman, Leena Amiri, Michelle Mclean
Medical Students Learning Communication Skills In A Second Language: Empathy And Expectations, Muhammad Hashim, Stella Major, Deen Mirza, Engela Prinsloo, Ossama Osman, Leena Amiri, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
Objectives: Communications skills (CS) training for medical interviewing is increasingly being conducted in English at medical schools worldwide. In this study, we sought to identify whether Arabic-speaking medical students experienced difficulty with the different components of the CS training that were conducted in English. Methods: Individual third-year preclinical medical students (N = 45) were videotaped while interviewing simulated patients. Each student assessed his/her performance on a 13-item (5-point scale) assessment form, which was also completed by the tutor and other students in the group. Results: Of the 13 components of their CS training, tutors awarded the lowest marks for students’ …
Predicting Performance At Medical School: Can We Identify At-Risk Students?, Sami Shaban, Michelle Mclean
Predicting Performance At Medical School: Can We Identify At-Risk Students?, Sami Shaban, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive potential of multiple indicators (eg, preadmission scores, unit, module and clerkship grades, course and examination scores) on academic performance at medical school, with a view to identifying students at risk. Methods: An analysis was undertaken of medical student grades in a 6-year medical school program at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, over the past 14 years. Results: While high school scores were significantly (P < 0.001) correlated with the final integrated examination, predictability was only 6.8%. Scores for the …
Transferable Skills Of Incoming Medical Students And Their Development Over The First Academic Year: The United Arab Emirates Experience, Michelle Mclean, Sami Shaban, Deborah Murdoch-Eaton
Transferable Skills Of Incoming Medical Students And Their Development Over The First Academic Year: The United Arab Emirates Experience, Michelle Mclean, Sami Shaban, Deborah Murdoch-Eaton
Michelle McLean
Increasingly, it is being recognised in higher and medical education that learners should be adequately prepared for the unpredictable nature of professional practice. Several generic or transferable skills or capabilities (e.g., communication, information handling) that will enable graduates to function in an ever-changing professional world have been identified. Using a validated inventory comprising six categories of transferable skills, three cohorts of incoming male and female medical students at a Gulf university documented their level of practice and confidence for 31 skills. The exercise was repeated a year later. New medical students identified computer and organisational skills and the ability to …
Citizens For An Unknown Future: Developing Generic Skills And Capabilities In The Gulf Context, Michelle Mclean
Citizens For An Unknown Future: Developing Generic Skills And Capabilities In The Gulf Context, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
Over the past 20 years or so, there has been a growing demand for Higher Education to more closely meet economic needs and employer requirements. HE in the UK and Australia, for example, has responded by identifying generic skills (UK) or generic graduate attributes (Australia) that are considered to improve students’ learning, develop their employability skills and prepare them for life-long learning. The Bologna agreement has also identified skills that graduates will require as future European Union citizens. These skills have also been called ‘key’, ‘core’ or ‘transferable’ skills and are “the skills, knowledge and abilities of university graduates, beyond …
Learner-Centred Medical Education: Improved Learning Or Increased Stress?, Michelle Mclean, T Gibbs
Learner-Centred Medical Education: Improved Learning Or Increased Stress?, Michelle Mclean, T Gibbs
Michelle McLean
Context: Globally, as medical education undergoes significant reform towards more "learner-centred" approaches, specific implications arise for medical educators and learners. Although this learner-centredness is grounded in educational theory, a point of discussion would be whether the application and practice of these new curricula alleviate or exacerbate student difficulties and levels of stress. Objectives: This commentary will argue that while this reform in medical education is laudable, with positive implications for learning, medical educators may not have understood or perhaps not embraced "learner-centredness" in its entirety. Discussion: During their training, medical students are expected to be "patient-centred". They are asked to …
Does Undergraduate Student Research Constitute Scholarship? Drawing On The Experiences Of One Medical Faculty, Michelle Mclean, F Howarth
Does Undergraduate Student Research Constitute Scholarship? Drawing On The Experiences Of One Medical Faculty, Michelle Mclean, F Howarth
Michelle McLean
While undergraduate research has been part of the learning culture in some disciplines for many years, it is only more recently that it is being included into mainstream medical curricula. Undergraduate medical students at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, have several opportunities to undertake research during their studies, both locally and abroad. Following a documentary analysis of curricular and extra-curricular research over the past five years, supervised undergraduate student research activities and outcomes were compared with published criteria for scholarship and were judged to meet the standards. Suggestions for improved productivity relating to student …