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Research Advances In Conformity To Peer Pressure: A Negative Side Effect Of Medical Education, Tanya Beran Dec 2015

Research Advances In Conformity To Peer Pressure: A Negative Side Effect Of Medical Education, Tanya Beran

Health Professions Education

Curricula in medical education are intended to impart the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students will require as physicians to meet patient needs. There are additional unarticulated and implicit messages that inherently emerge in medical education. This paper examines one such message: conformity to peers, whereby individuals repeat inaccurate information reported by peer group members. Empirical evidence from 60 years of social-psychological research demonstrates that this phenomenon of conformity occurs across experimental tasks, cultures, and over time. It has yet to be systematically studied in medical education. Emerging studies from the University of Calgary, Canada, and in collaboration with King …


One Size Does Not Fit All: Blended Learning Strategies In Medical Education, Hossam Hamdy Dec 2015

One Size Does Not Fit All: Blended Learning Strategies In Medical Education, Hossam Hamdy

Health Professions Education

Over the last forty years, the field of medical education has seen major changes in defining graduate outcome competencies, curriculum design, integration between clinical and basic sciences, teaching approaches, assessment, accreditation, etc. In the domain of learning approaches, problem-based learning (PBL) gained popularity particularly with the rapidly increasing new medical colleges all over the world.1 Other learning and teaching strategies also began to appear in an attempt to induce more student-centered learning, more student engagement, and active learning. Some of these strategies such as team-based learning (TBL) were attempts to improve teaching in a conventional curriculum, while maintaining the large …


Focus Of The New Journal Health Professions Education, Henk Schmidt Dec 2015

Focus Of The New Journal Health Professions Education, Henk Schmidt

Health Professions Education

Why is there a need for a new journal in the field of health professions education? The simple answer is that the field is expanding. The number of academics and educators interested in understanding what works in health professions education and why, increases. Existing journals turn down up to 90% of submissions and offer little opportunity for young researchers and educators to master the craft of scientific publishing in close interaction with experienced reviewers. Health Professions Education will therefore offer more extended editorial support to young researchers than is possible for existing journals. We encourage beginning authors to start submitting …