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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 …
Developing A Global Health Practitioner: Time To Act?, Judy Mckimm, Michelle Mclean
Developing A Global Health Practitioner: Time To Act?, Judy Mckimm, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
Although many health issues transcend national boundaries and require international co-operation, global health is rarely an integral part of the medical curriculum. While medical schools have a social responsibility to train healthcare professionals to serve local communities, the internationalisation of medical education (e.g. international medical students, export of medical curricula or medical schools) makes it increasingly difficult to define it as ‘local’. It is therefore necessary to produce practitioners who can practice medicine in an ever-changing and unpredictable world. These practitioners must be clinically and culturally competent as well as able to use their global knowledge and experience to improve …
Creating Equal Opportunities: The Social Accountability Of Medical Education, Trevor Gibbs, Michelle Mclean
Creating Equal Opportunities: The Social Accountability Of Medical Education, Trevor Gibbs, Michelle Mclean
Michelle McLean
As new developments in medical education move inexorably forward, medical schools are being encouraged to revisit their curricula to ensure quality graduates and match their outcomes against defined standards. These standards may eventually be transferred into global accreditation standards, which allow ‘safe passage’ of graduates from one country to another [Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 2010. Requiring medical school accreditation for ECFMG certification—moving accreditation forward. Available from: http://www.ecfmg.org/accreditation/rationale.pdf. Gaining much attention is the important standard of social accountability – ensuring that graduates’ competencies are shaped by the health and social needs of the local, national and even international …
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 …