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Variation in passing standards for graduation-level knowledge items at UK medical schools.
OBJECTIVES: Given the absence of a common passing standard for students at UK medical schools, this paper compares independently set standards for common 'one from five' single-best-answer (multiple-choice) items used in...
Progress and divergence in palliative care education for medical students
Steven Walker, Jane Gibbins, Stephen Barclay, Astrid Adams, Paul Paes, Madawa Chandratilake, Faye Gishen, Philip Lodge, Bee Wee
Mar 07, 2016
Developing and piloting a resource for training assessors in use of the Mini-CEX (mini clinical evaluation exercise).
The assessment of undergraduate medical students in
the clinical setting has become a key priority for medical
educators. Facilitating the successful translation of undergraduate
theoretical knowledge into safe and...
The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey
Oliver Patrick Devine, Andrew Christopher Harborne, Hugo Layard Horsfall, Tobin Joseph, Tess Marshall-Andon, Ryan Samuels, Joshua William Kearsley, Nadine Abbas, Hassan Baig, Joseph Beecham, Natasha Benons, Charlie Caird, Ryan Clark, Thomas Cope, James Coultas, Luke Debenham, Sarah Douglas, Jack Eldridge, Thomas Hughes-Gooding, Agnieszka Jakubowska, Oliver Jones, Eve Lancaster, Calum MacMillan, Ross McAllister, Wassim Merzougui, Ben Phillips, Simon Phillips, Omar Risk, Adam Sage, Aisha Sooltangos, Robert Spencer, Roxanne Tajbakhsh, Oluseyi Adesalu, Ivan Aganin, Ammar Ahmed, Katherine Aiken, Alimatu-Sadia Akeredolu, Ibrahim Alam, Aamna Ali, Richard Anderson, Jia Jun Ang, Fady Sameh Anis, Sonam Aojula, Catherine Arthur, Alena Ashby, Ahmed Ashraf, Emma Aspinall, Mark Awad, Abdul-Muiz Azri Yahaya, Shreya Badhrinarayanan, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Sam Barnes, Daisy Bassey-Duke, Charlotte Boreham, Rebecca Braine, Joseph Brandreth, Zoe Carrington, Zoe Cashin, Shaunak Chatterjee, Mehar Chawla, Chung Shen Chean, Chris Clements, Richard Clough, Jessica Coulthurst, Liam Curry, Vinnie Christine Daniels, Simon Davies, Rebecca Davis, Hanelie De Waal, Nasreen Desai, Hannah Douglas, James Druce, Lady-Namera Ejamike, Meron Esere, Alex Eyre, Ibrahim Talal Fazmin, Sophia Fitzgerald-Smith, Verity Ford, Sarah Freeston, Katherine Garnett, Whitney General, Helen Gilbert, Zein Gowie, Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, Keshni Gudka, Leher Gumber, Rishi Gupta, Chris Harlow, Amy Harrington, Adele Heaney, Wing Hang Serene Ho, Lucy Holloway, Christina Hood, Eleanor Houghton, Saba Houshangi, Emma Howard, Benjamin Human, Harriet Hunter, Ifrah Hussain, Sami Hussain, Richard Thomas Jackson-Taylor, Bronwen Jacob-Ramsdale, Ryan Janjuha, Saleh Jawad, Muzzamil Jelani, David Johnston, Mike Jones, Sadhana Kalidindi, Savraj Kalsi, Asanish Kalyanasundaram, Anna Kane, Sahaj Kaur, Othman Khaled Al-Othman, Qaisar Khan, Sajan Khullar, Priscilla Kirkland, Hannah Lawrence-Smith, Charlotte Leeson, Julius Elisabeth Richard Lenaerts, Kerry Long, Simon Lubbock, Jamie Mac Donald Burrell, Rachel Maguire, Praveen Mahendran, Saad Majeed, Prabhjot Singh Malhotra, Vinay Mandagere, Angelos Mantelakis, Sophie McGovern, Anjola Mosuro, Adam Moxley, Sophie Mustoe, Sam Myers, Kiran Nadeem, Reza Nasseri, Tom Newman, Richard Nzewi, Rosalie Ogborne, Joyce Omatseye, Sophie Paddock, James Parkin, Mohit Patel, Sohini Pawar, Stuart Pearce, Samuel Penrice, Julian Purdy, Raisa Ramjan, Ratan Randhawa, Usman Rasul, Elliot Raymond-Taggert, Rebecca Razey, Carmel Razzaghi, Eimear Reel, Elliot John Revell, Joanna Rigbye, Oloruntobi Rotimi, Abdelrahman Said, Emma Sanders, Pranoy Sangal, Nora Sangvik Grandal, Aadam Shah, Rahul Atul Shah, Oliver Shotton, Daniel Sims, Katie Smart, Martha Amy Smith, Nick Smith, Aninditya Salma Sopian, Matthew South, Jessica Speller, Tom J Syer, Ngan Hong Ta, Daniel Tadross, Benjamin Thompson, Jess Trevett, Matthew Tyler, Roshan Ullah, Mrudula Utukuri, Shree Vadera, Harriet Van Den Tooren, Sara Venturini, Aradhya Vijayakumar, Melanie Vine, Zoe Wellbelove, Liora Wittner, Geoffrey Hong Kiat Yong, Farris Ziyada, IC McManus
May 20, 2021
BACKGROUND: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a...
Order effects in high stakes undergraduate examinations
Clinical Competence Educational Measurement MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING Adult Clinical Competence Confidence Intervals Education Medical Undergraduate Educational Measurement Female Humans Male Medical History Taking Obstetrics Pediatrics Physical Examination Reproducibility of Results Schools Medical Students Medical United Kingdom
Comparing single-best-answer and very-short-answer questions for the assessment of applied medical knowledge in 20 UK medical schools
OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to compare candidate performance between traditional best-of-five single-best-answer (SBA) questions and very-short-answer (VSA) questions, in which candidates must generate their own answers of...
assessment MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING applied medical knowledge Academic performance Clinical Competence Cross-Sectional Studies Decision Making Education Medical Undergraduate Educational Measurement Humans Knowledge learning Schools Medical Students Medical Surveys and Questionnaires United Kingdom
Learning to care
BACKGROUND: Over recent years there has been an increase in teaching of both palliative care and reflective practice in UK medical schools. The palliative care teaching at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine...
Re: the role of radiology in anatomy teaching in UK medical schools
Sir – We thank Raja and colleagues1 for their interest in our article and share their enthusiasm for the integration of radiology in anatomy teaching. This is something that we feel passionate about. Two of our authors are...
Initiating Students' Reflections on Life's Passing in the Anatomy Course - an International Observation at 14 Universities.
Anette Wu, Ann Chen Xi Yu, Cynthia Soledad Chang, Rahul Goel, Mandeep Gill Sagoo, Takeshi Sakurai, Suvi Viranta-Kovanen, Chung-Liang Chien, Hannes Traxler, Jens Waschke, Shuji Kitahara, Kevin Keay, Jorgen Olsen, Cecilia Brassett, Salma El Batti, Franziska Vielmuth, Anna Magdalena Sigmund, Mina Zeroual, Carol Kunzel, Paulette Bernd, Richard Wingate, Heike Kielstein, Geoffroy PJC Noel
Apr 23, 2021
BACKGROUND: Medical and dental students' feelings and thoughts about the topic of death and life's passing are often associated with learning in the gross anatomy course, when students begin working with a deceased body donor in...
Developing essential professional skills
Leadership and management in the undergraduate medical curriculum
Thelma Quince, Mark Abbas, Sughashini Murugesu, Francesca Crawley, Sarah Hyde, Diana Wood, John Benson
Nov 15, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To explore undergraduate medical students' attitudes towards and opinions about leadership and management education. DESIGN: Between 2009 and 2012 we conducted a qualitative study comprising five focus group...
When investigating depression and anxiety in undergraduate medical students timing of assessment is an important factor - a multicentre cross-sectional study.
Twelve tips for developing palliative care teaching in an undergraduate curriculum for medical students.
Palliative care is the holistic care of patients with advanced, progressive incurable illness. Palliative care is well recognized as an essential component of medical student curricula. However, teaching is variable within...
Current provision of myelopathy education in medical schools in the UK
Oliver Mowforth, Benjamin Davies, Max Stewart, Sam Smith, Alice Willison, Shahzaib Ahmed, Michelle Starkey, Iwan Sadler, Ellen Sarewitz, Sybil Stacpoole, Mark Kotter
Jul 06, 2020
Social media in undergraduate medical education
Jonathan Guckian, Mrudula Utukuri, Aqua Asif, Oliver Burton, Joshua Adeyoju, Adam Oumeziane, Timothy Chu, Eliot L Rees
Jun 04, 2021
INTRODUCTION: There are over 3.81 billion worldwide active social media (SoMe) users. SoMe are ubiquitous in medical education, with roles across undergraduate programmes, including professionalism, blended learning, well being...
The role of radiology in anatomy teaching in UK medical schools
AIMS: To investigate the current use of radiology in anatomy teaching across the UK, and to determine the level of interest expressed in expanding its role in medical education. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 22-question electronic...
Medical students consulting from home
INTRODUCTION: Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic had a disruptive effect on medical education when they prevented medical students accessing real patients. To address this, we piloted 35 medical students at home consulting...