Rethinking Professionalism: Freirean Pedagogy for Africa’s Clinical Officers
A new conceptual analysis argues that professionalism training for Clinical Associates and Clinical Officers in Sub-Saharan Africa should be reimagined ...
Tag: Medical Education
Resident Doctors’ Mental Health Shifts Dramatically Across Training Stages, Study Reveals
A qualitative study of 33 resident trainees in China finds self-efficacy, well-being, burnout and professional identity change across training stages, ...
Emotions May Be the Missing Key to Medical Professionalism, Researchers Argue
A new decolonial perspective argues that emotions are not threats to medical professionalism but essential resources for clinical decision-making and ...
Medical Students Train to Tackle Firearm Injury Prevention in Two-Hour Session
A two-hour session at Oregon Health & Science University significantly increased medical students' perceived knowledge, confidence, and intention to engage ...
Canada’s Competence by Design Residency Reform Shows Gains and Growing Pains
When Canada's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada began rolling out Competence by Design, or CBD, it was ...
Family Physicians in Saudi Arabia Embrace Evidence-Based Complementary Medicine, Study Finds
A new cross-sectional study of 62 family physicians in Saudi Arabia reveals that 79 percent recommend complementary and alternative medicine, ...
AI Learns to Simulate Abdominal Ultrasound Scans from Simple Anatomical Maps
Researchers in Argentina have built a two-stage AI pipeline that generates realistic abdominal ultrasound images from simple semantic label maps, ...
Arrivals and Departures
A reflective essay in the Journal of General Internal Medicine explores how the recurring arrivals and departures of medical training ...
US Medical Residencies Are Flying Blind on AI Training, National Survey Finds
A national survey of internal medicine residency program directors reveals that formal education on artificial intelligence remains inconsistent across US ...
Medical Students Become Teachers to Sharpen the Art of Clinical Reasoning
A Yale-led medical education program that appoints senior students as formal Associate Course Educators more than tripled annual clinical reasoning ...
Dermatologic Surgery Textbooks Show Skin of Colour in Under 9 Percent of Images
An analysis of 3,334 images in seven dermatologic surgery textbooks found that only 8.7 percent depict Fitzpatrick skin types IV ...
Ninety Minutes on AI Changed How Surgeons View Scientific Publishing, Study Finds
A brief ninety-minute workshop at an international hernia surgery congress significantly improved surgeons' self-reported knowledge of AI in scientific publishing ...
London Paediatric Training Scheme Shows How to Grow Its Own Quality Improvement Mentors
An eight-year London programme has trained 254 paediatric resident doctors in quality improvement while building a self-sustaining mentor pipeline drawn ...
Continuity or Concentration? Rethinking How Dermatology Residents Are Trained
A new research letter in the Archives of Dermatological Research weighs longitudinal training models against traditional block rotations in dermatology ...
Remote Island Nurses Learn Ultrasound Through Tele-POCUS Training Program
A training program on a remote Japanese island significantly improved home care nurses' basic ultrasound interpretation skills and confidence, though ...
ICU Teams Get a Trust Rulebook as Researchers Turn Psychological Safety into Assessable Skills
Researchers at Penn State Health have developed and quality-tested a set of entrustable professional activities to build psychological safety and ...
Medical Schools Team Up to Close a Glaring Gap in Obesity Training
A competency-based obesity medicine curriculum tested across eight US medical schools significantly raised students' self-reported competence, knowledge, and positive attitudes ...
Skin Cancer Surgery’s Leadership Still Lags on Racial Diversity, 30-Year Study Finds
A 30-year analysis of Mohs surgery and dermatologic oncology fellowships finds significant diversification among program directors but persistently low representation ...
Anaphylaxis Alert: Most Doctors Know the Drug, Few Know the Dose
A survey of 317 physicians across 12 West Bank hospitals finds most doctors know epinephrine is the first-line treatment for ...
Fifty-Year-Old Urine Drug Tests Are Misleading Doctors and Harming Patients, Experts Warn
Physicians warn that decades-old immunoassay-based urine drug tests routinely produce false results that mislead clinicians and harm patients, calling for ...
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