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Health Sciences Education. Understanding and New Concepts

WEBHealth sciences education is a mile wide, complex, uncertain and life-long. It is a humanistic science, and through its multiple unending iterations has undergone a major shift from acquiring knowledge, to critical analysis and synthesis of information for making decisions. This paper examines the new curricula paradigm of the changing role of

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Twelve Tips for using Learning Curves in Health MedEdPublish

WEBIntroduction. Although developing skills over time is a core part of health professional education, measurement of new skills and descriptions of how to attain these skills are often ill-defined (Howard et al., 2021).Learning curves are a robust way of describing and measuring skill development (Howard et al., 2021; Pusic et al., …

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Health professionalism and health profession MedEdPublish

WEBHealth professionalism for health professions. Professionalism is a key factor in the desirable characteristics of a health professional. It is a combination of having abilities, knowledge and skills which are sufficient to work and provide services to patients and those on the receiving end of the health service.

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Benefits of Reflective Writing in Health Care MedEdPublish

WEBIntroduction. Medical education help students to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the medical health profession (Schei, Fuks and Boudreau, 2018).Therefore, it is the responsibility of medical teachers to introduce right pedagogy among their students (Sukhato et al., 2016).Reflective writing is one of the latest …

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A call for One Health Education MedEdPublish

WEBOne Health is the concept that human health is intrinsically connected to animal health and ecosystem health. The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for physicians and medical students to understand how deforestation, climate change and the loss of biodiversity impact human health and often perpetuate racial inequities.

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Integration of Community Health and Prevention MedEdPublish

WEBIntegrating community health and wellness throughout the curriculum allows osteopathic medical students to learn the scientific basis for prevention recommendations and learn to apply them to future patient care. We are incorporating these topics across the first two years of medical school in a new college of osteopathic medicine in the USA.

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Integrating Health Systems Science in early MedEdPublish

WEBIncorporating health systems science (HSS) into medical school curricula is important, but there are numerous barriers to implementation, including lack of prioritization of this content by students. We performed a pilot intervention to integrate HSS content with clinical skills in a Hospital Medicine preceptorship for first-year medical

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Sparking interest in public health amongst future MedEdPublish

WEBIntroduction. We have a duty of care to all patients, ensuring optimal outcomes through evidence-based prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Our National Health Service (NHS) in the UK turned 70 recently, but is facing threats to its sustainability due to an ageing population and complex problems such as antimicrobial resistance, …

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Learning to be patient-centred healthcare MedEdPublish

WEBLearning of patient-centred behaviours takes place in groups and is influenced by interaction with members (students, educators, patients, families) in multidisciplinary groups and through observing interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviours ( Braungart and Braungart, 2008) of other health professionals. Hence it is opportune to …

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Training medical students in health coaching skills MedEdPublish

WEBIntroduction. In 2013, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine instituted a curriculum innovation: required training in health coaching skills to address continued problems in physician-patient communication. From 2013 through 2018, all UCSF first year medical students learned the philosophy and …

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Masters in health professions education programs MedEdPublish

WEBIn its wake, health professions education (HPE) has emerged. HPE programs equip health care providers with the academic prowess, interpersonal skills, and leadership to advance the field, because students taught by skilled clinical educators often perform better in their fields 1. Furthermore, learning the educational and leadership skills

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Queering the Medical Curriculum: How to Design, MedEdPublish

WEBShe is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Health program at Queen's University, and her main research interests are in Emergency Medicine, Public Health, and LGBTQ2-S health. Jennifer Gallant is an honours Psychology graduate from Cape Breton University (2015) with an MA in Applied Psychology at Laurentian University.

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Health Professions' Educators' Adaptation to Rapidly.

WEBHealth professions’ programmes often run outside the typical university academic year, with their students having to meet requirements from the regulators as well as the university’s own regulations and this puts added pressure on educators and administrators alike. When health services are themselves stretched, shortages of …

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Engaging health professions students in MedEdPublish

WEBHealth illiteracy (OR 3.68, 95% CI: 0.76-17.9) was associated with suboptimal health, as was obtaining care at an Emergency Department (OR 2.05, 95% CI: 0.81-5.25). Conclusions: Pairing healthcare with meals and other primary needs may be an effective strategy to increase service utilization by this population. Future needs …

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Addressing Community Health Needs through the MedEdPublish

WEBIn 2017, Dunean had a population of 3,710 people (58.4% Caucasian, 34.4% African American, 2.6% Hispanic or Latino) ( DataUSA, 2017 ). The median household income was $28,866, with 23% of residents living in poverty ( DataUSA, 2017 ). Many of these statewide problems are exacerbated in the Upstate of South Carolina, …

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The online inverted classroom model (oICM). A MedEdPublish

WEBThe proposed online Inverted Classroom Model (oICM) includes the following phases: (1) pre-phase, (2) self-learning-phase, (3) synchronous online phase, (4) transfer-phase, and (5) evaluation. Recommendations and potential tools are provided for each phase. The oICM is an innovative and easy to use approach to shape digital …

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Threshold Concepts in Medical Education MedEdPublish

WEBThreshold concepts (TC) is a theoretical framework in higher education to describe ways of thinking and reasoning that are unique to a profession and enable the learner to “think like” and become a professional. The TC framework was developed by Meyer and Land ( Meyer and Land, 2003; Land, Meyer and Smith, 2008; Meyer, Land …

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Interventions Designed to Improve the Learning MedEdPublish

WEBThis article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Purpose: To identify and describe interventions designed to affect the learning environment (LE) in health professions education, summarize factors that influence the LE, and determine gaps that require additional research. The LE can be thought of as a dynamic …

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The Integration of Health and Education Services: MedEdPublish

WEBIntegrating health services and educational institutions implies certain constraints, such as horizontal relationships, joint work processes, common interests and alignment of needs and potentialities ( Brehmer, 2014 ). In this context, the integration of teaching-service, which was previously restricted to agreements between two institutions

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Impact of peer support on student mental MedEdPublish

WEBOnly 34% of participants completed the intervention programme, but 69% of those who completed the peer support intervention felt the session had improved their ability to look after their own mental health ( Byrom, 2017 ). Thus, the intervention had a significant impact on mental wellbeing for those who engaged with it.

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