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How Useful Is Youtube In Learning Heart Anatomy?, Athanasios Raikos, Pasan Waidyasekara

Athanasios Raikos

Nowadays more and more modern medical degree programs focus on self-directed and problem-based learning. That requires students to search for high quality and easy to retrieve online resources. YouTube is an emerging platform for learning human anatomy due to easy access and being a free service. The purpose of this study is to make a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the available human heart anatomy videos on YouTube. Using the search engine of the platform we searched for relevant videos using various keywords. Videos with irrelevant content, animal tissue, non-English language, no sound, duplicates, and physiology focused were excluded from …

How We "Breathed Life" Into Problem-Based Learning Cases Using A Mobile Application, Michelle Mclean, Victoria Brazil, Patricia Johnson

Patricia Johnson

Background: Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in medical education. Learners become bored with paper based cases as they progress through their studies. Aim: To breathe life (i.e. develop virtual patients) into paper-based PBL cases. Methods: The ‘‘patients’’ in paper-based PBL cases in one Year 2 were transformed into virtual patients by simulated patients roleplaying and the videos and associated patient data uploaded to Bond’s Virtual Hospital, a mobile Application. In unsupervised ‘‘clinical teams’’, second-year students undertook ‘‘ward rounds’’ twice a week, prompted by a virtual consultant and registered nurse. Immediately following the ‘‘ward rounds’’, they met with a …

Medical Educators Working Abroad: Who Are They?, Michelle Mclean, Anna Da Silva, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major

Michelle McLean

Background: Medical education is an international activity. As students and educators travel across the globe to study and teach, both medical student populations and academic staff profiles are becoming increasingly multinational. Little is, however, known about medical educators who chose to work and live abroad. Methods: Following a pilot study in the Middle East, an online survey was adapted for an international audience. In addition to demographic data, information was collected about international medical educators’ countries of birth, where they had studied, their work history as well as their roles and responsibilities as medical educators. Results: The survey, completed by …

On Being An International Medical Educator, Michelle Mclean, Stella Major, Judy Mckimm

Michelle McLean

Hayden's (2006) article on the internationalisation of medical education set out a compelling vision of transnational medical education. A typical scenario would therefore be an international teacher with a class of international students, an international curriculum and instiutional collaboration across national boundaries. In today's shrinking global world of travel and communication, such a scenario is probably not as uncommon as one might imagine.

Medical Educators Working Abroad: A Pilot Study Of Educators' Experiences In The Middle East, Michelle Mclean, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major

Michelle McLean

Medical education is now a global enterprise, with many medical educators working internationally, either for short or longer periods or even permanently. In parallel, many medical schools are now involved in collaborations and partnerships with schools in other countries. With this in mind, we set out to explore what motivates, supports and inhibits medical educators who wish to or might work outside their ‘‘home country’’. This article reports on the pilot stage (in specific organizational contexts in Middle East) of a longitudinal project aimed at canvassing medical educators on a broader global scale, using reflective accounts and a questionnaire survey. …

How We "Breathed Life" Into Problem-Based Learning Cases Using A Mobile Application, Michelle Mclean, Victoria Brazil, Patricia Johnson

Michelle McLean

Background: Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in medical education. Learners become bored with paper based cases as they progress through their studies. Aim: To breathe life (i.e. develop virtual patients) into paper-based PBL cases. Methods: The ‘‘patients’’ in paper-based PBL cases in one Year 2 were transformed into virtual patients by simulated patients roleplaying and the videos and associated patient data uploaded to Bond’s Virtual Hospital, a mobile Application. In unsupervised ‘‘clinical teams’’, second-year students undertook ‘‘ward rounds’’ twice a week, prompted by a virtual consultant and registered nurse. Immediately following the ‘‘ward rounds’’, they met with a …

Prenatal Oral Health Education In U.S. Obstetrics And Gynecology Residencies And Dental Schools: Results Of A National Survey, Megan Weeks, Judith A. Savageau, Hugh Silk

Judith A. Savageau

Background: Pregnant women represent a special population within oral health care. Adverse pregnancy outcomes and increased infant caries can occur when prenatal oral disease is not addressed. Currently, medical and dental clinicians are not meeting the oral health needs of pregnant patients.

Objective: Medical and dental providers are not addressing prenatal oral health (POH) with patients despite knowledge of the risks. The objective of this study was to determine how training in dental schools and OB/Gyn residencies may contribute to this paradox.

Methods: We conducted a national survey of 60 dental school deans and 240 obstetrics and gynecology residency program …

Assessing Oral Health Curriculum In U.S. Family Medicine Residency Programs: A National Survey, Ronnelle King, Hugh Silk, Judith A. Savageau, Ian M. Bennett, Alexander W. Chessman

Judith A. Savageau

Background: During the past decade, national initiatives have called for improved oral health (OH) training for physicians. However, how Family Medicine residency programs have answered this call is unknown.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine how much oral health education is being provided to Family Medicine residents, if the program directors are aware of the importance of oral health, and if there are specific barriers to teaching oral health curricula in these programs.

Methods: 452 Family Medicine residency directors were surveyed about numbers of hours of OH teaching, topics covered, and perceived barriers to …

Personal Growth And Its Correlates During Residency Training, Todd Gress, Scott Wright, Rachel Levine, Brent Beasley, Paul Haidet, Suzanne Caccamese, Donald Brady, Ajay Marwaha, David Kern

Todd W. Gress

• Objectives  To explore the characteristics of and factors associated with personal growth during residency training.
• Methods  In 2003, 359 house officers on 7 internal medicine residency training programmes in the USA were surveyed about their training experiences and issues related to their personal growth. Factor analysis and internal reliability testing were used to develop a ‘personal growth scale’. Logistic regression models were then used to identify independent associations between individual variables and ‘high’ versus ‘low’ personal growth scores.
• Results  A total of 281 house officers (80%) responded. The personal growth scale had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.81. Factors that were …