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Babu Noushad, Pascal W. M. Van Gerven, Anique B. H. de Bruin
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Caitlin Furlong, Michel T. Leger
Summary: The purpose of this article is to create a new problem-solving model by using data from previous studies, highlighting the importance of tinkering in how students solve problems during digital fabrication in schools.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Nicholas Rennie, Eva Degraeuwe, Charlotte Deltour, Miryam Serry Senhaji, Judith Brusselmans, Margo Vandenheede, Frederik Berrevoet, Elke Van Daele, Wouter Willaert
Summary: Despite interest in global surgery, knowledge and exposure to the field are limited among Belgian medical students. These results advocate for the inclusion of decolonised global surgery education alongside equitable international clinical internships in medical education worldwide.
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Angela Towle, Kenneth Ong, Lucy Wang, Cathy C. Kline
Summary: Patient/public involvement in health professional education is increasing, but there is a lack of supportive institutional infrastructure. This qualitative study conducted focus groups with patients and community organizations to learn how medical schools can engage in an authentic and sustainable way. The findings suggest that individual instructors can enhance patient engagement through recruitment, support, and recognition practices, while institutional commitment is needed to sustain and widen participation through funding, policies, and infrastructure.
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Ricardo Leon Borquez
MEDICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Elizabeth Iris Lamb, Hugh Alberti
Summary: Role modelling is a powerful tool in medical education that can greatly influence the professional development, clinical skills, and career choices of medical professionals. This article provides twelve tips, based on theory, evidence, research, and experience, to enhance the positive impact of role modelling. The tips include raising awareness among educators of their role modelling potential, providing diverse role models, facilitating reflection, and using role modelling to improve recruitment in shortage specialties.
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Oncology
Sarah Friday, Katherine Salisbury, Stephanie Snyder, Lindsay Strowd
Summary: The incidence of skin cancer has been increasing, and sun exposure during childhood and adolescence is a critical risk factor. Medical students in North Carolina addressed this issue by designing an education program that focused on presenting skin cancer in individuals of different skin types. After the educational session, students were able to demonstrate their new knowledge and make meaningful behavioral changes.
JOURNAL OF CANCER EDUCATION
(2023)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Justin L. Hess, Athena Lin, Andrew Whitehead, Andrew Katz
Summary: This paper examines the explicit connections between ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in engineering education. The study found that integrating ethics and DEI in engineering can lead to a socially just world and a more inclusive and equitable engineering culture.
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Sloane Kowal, Daiana Roxana Pur, Stuti M. Tanya, Cody Lo, Michael Thai Binh Nguyen, Radha Kohly, Isabelle Hardy
Summary: COSIG is the first national medical student-led specialty interest group in Canada. They have organized various initiatives to increase students' opportunities for ophthalmology exposure and learning.
MEDICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR
(2023)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Christine Louise Krebs, Jakob Thestrup, Jane Hybschmann, Kelsey Graber, Line Klingen Gjaerde, Martha Krogh Topperzer, Emilie Tange Nielsen, Anders Larsen, Paul Ramchandani, Thomas Leth Frandsen, Jette Led Sorensen
Summary: Education on the use of play for healthcare professionals is lacking, and play can help paediatric patients cope with hospitalisation.
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Biology
Hawa Mpate
Summary: Seventeen years after the introduction of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) in Tanzanian secondary schools, teachers still face challenges in implementing it. This study reveals that Biology teachers encounter hurdles such as insufficient knowledge, inadequate training, limited resources, and lack of laboratory space. To address these challenges, teachers have resorted to improvisation and utilizing neighboring schools' and colleges' laboratories. The study recommends regular in-service teacher training and provision of necessary resources to facilitate the seamless execution of CBC.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Philip Chan, Anna Anthony, Kathleen Quinlan, Sharon Smith, Chris Holland
Summary: The outcomes of widening participation in admissions to UK medical schools have remained unchanged from 2007 to 2018, partly due to inequity in the selection process. This study introduces a novel method of contextualizing applicants to model the effects of changing selection on widening participation. The results indicate that by ranking applicants based on their GCSE grades in comparison to their schools' average performance, a higher level of widening participation can be achieved, thus promoting equity.
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Laura E. Chiel, Carolyn H. Marcus, Amanda R. Gomez, Kathryn Williams, Olivia Buraks, Michael Fishman, Jessica Angerman, Ariel S. Winn
Summary: While interns expressed more discomfort evaluating peers in an open evaluation system, they wrote longer and more high caliber comments in an open system than in an anonymous system. Residency programs should consider professional development in writing peer evaluation. Residents are uncomfortable writing constructive comments in peer evaluations, particularly in open formats.
Residents write similar numbers of constructive comments whether the evaluation is delivered anonymously or in an open format.
Residents write more high caliber comments when evaluations are delivered in an open format than when delivered anonymously.
Residents write longer comments when evaluations are in an open format.
Program leaders should weigh the increased number of high caliber peer evaluations in an open system with resident preference for an anonymous system when designing their peer evaluation systems.
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Education & Educational Research
Nadja Beeler, Esther Ziegler, Andreas Volz, Alexander A. Navarini, Manu Kapur
Summary: Combining procedural and conceptual knowledge improves learning outcomes in medical image evaluation. Although both teaching methods significantly and persistently impacted students' diagnostic accuracy, only students with combined procedural and conceptual knowledge significantly improved their diagnostic performance in classifying lesions they had seen before.
ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2023)
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Biology
Esra Cakirlar-Altuntas, Salih Levent Turan
Summary: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of documentary-based augmented reality applications to the direct instruction method supported by the question and answer technique in environmental education. The results show that documentary-based augmented reality applications are more effective in relating learned information to daily life and enabling people to contemplate the behavioral consequences of environmental problems.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
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Substance Abuse
Pamela H. Taylor, Beverly W. Henry, Steven M. Howell, Thomas J. Smith, Kim Milano, Terence Hodges
Summary: This study conducted in-depth focus group interviews with undergraduate students to explore their shared experience of participating in computer-delivered alcohol interventions (CDIs). The findings indicate that gender, culture, parents, and family influence alcohol use behavior, and personal factors and experiences can affect the effectiveness of interventions.
JOURNAL OF DRUG EDUCATION
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Antonia Fruntke, Mira Behnke, Elisabeth Dietel, Antje Vollrath, Ulrich S. Schubert, Timm Wilke
Summary: This article presents two experimental series on the topic of nanomedicine for high school and student laboratories. The principle of "nanocarriers" is introduced, which can be used to transport drugs to organs and infected tissues in a targeted manner. This allows for a higher localized drug dose to be achieved while minimizing side effects. The experimental series includes all relevant steps from (1) the choice or synthesis of polymers to (2) the formulation and loading with fluorescent model substances to (3) the targeted degradation of the nanocarriers through ester cleavage and the release of the model substance. All experiments can be conducted as school experiments with simple devices from the school laboratory within a double lesson. In terms of content, the curriculum topics "nano" and "polymers" can be ideally interconnected and numerous classical contents of chemistry teaching (polymerization, polarity, ester formation and cleavage, carboxylic acids, etc.) can be introduced or consolidated using an attractive and motivating context.
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Oncology
Brandon S. Chai, Meredith Giuliani, Joanne Alfieri, Jeffrey Cao, Andrea Bezjak, Michael Kim, Che Hsuan David Wu, Nauman Malik, David Y. Mak, Paris-Ann Ingledew
Summary: This study examines the impact of COVID-19 on a medical student intern program and its influence on students' perceptions and career choices. The findings suggest that the program remained feasible during the pandemic, with students reporting numerous benefits and support in their specialty selection.
JOURNAL OF CANCER EDUCATION
(2023)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Mikio Hayashi, Timothy Rogers, Dorothy W. Tolchin
Summary: As diversity is embraced by medical schools, it is important to acknowledge and support medical students with disabilities. This article provides 12 tips for medical school faculty to support these students, using sense-making theory as a framework. The tips focus on perceiving cues, creating interpretations, taking action, and communicating with students. Faculty members across universities can utilize these tips to proactively implement support, fostering an inclusive educational environment.
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Brigitte A. Brisson, Rachel Dobberstein, Gabrielle Monteith, Andria Jones
Summary: This study investigates stress levels among veterinary students during simulated suture skills examinations and finds that digital video recording can reduce stress compared to in-person examinations.
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
