Medical Education Podcasts 2013

Compares the use of PTTs with that of SP–PTT hybrids in the assessment of technical and communication skills in the female pelvic examination.

Addresses whether and to what extent biomedical knowledge is related to the development of clinical knowledge.

Utilises a large dataset of free-text comments obtained in a national pilot study in order to investigate how helpful these free-text comments may be to assessees.

Provides the first objective comparison of two approaches to training IM residents in ultrasonography.

Examines the relationship between deliberate practice and working memory in accounting for expert performance.

Assesses moral judgement competence in medical students and investigates trends in moral judgement competence in relation to age, gender, culture, religion, year of medical course and different programmes within the medical curriculum.

Using constructivist grounded theory to analyse data from focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews with 38 SPs and four examiners.

Two studies used to determine whether physician-expressed uncertainty would have more of a negative impact on patient satisfaction when the physician in question was female rather than male.

Investigates the pressures and interventions experienced by medical school teachers in relation to grades awarded in assessments of students' knowledge.

Examines the literature and related websites to determine the extent to which this work is carried out with medical students and residents.

Aims to clarify how students engage with feedback and to explore the roles of learning-related characteristics and previous and current performance.

The multiple mini-interview (MMI) is the primary admissions tool used to assess non-cognitive skills at Dundee Medical School.

Explores how feedback is handled within different professional cultures, and how the characteristics and values of a profession shape learners' responses to feedback.

Evaluates student confidence in incorrect responses and to establish how confidence was influenced by the potential clinical impact of answers, question type and gender.

Explores clinicians’ preparedness to provide care, and the steps taken to overcome shortcomings in clinical training in regard to the social determinants of health.

Addresses the gap in a qualitative study of the relationships between scores on four commonly used attitude scales and participants’ experiences and reflections.

A comprehensive review of instructional animations in the health sciences domain and examined whether these animations met the three main goals of CTML.

This study examined whether revising a medical lecture based on evidence-based principles of multimedia design would lead to improved long-term transfer and retention in Year 3 medical students.

Fifteen experts interpreted 18 ECGs in four different conditions: undirected interpretation; verification without a checklist; verification with a checklist, and interpretation combined with verification with a checklist.

Three representative qualitative synthesis methodologies were explored: thematic analysis; meta-ethnography, and realist synthesis.

Quantifies the effects of two distinct and separate disruptions caused by earthquakes to a medical school learning environment on two separate cohorts of Year 5 medical students.

Investigates the frequency of and attitudes towards academic disintegrity among medical students at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Confronting complexity: medical education, social theory and the ‘fate of our times’ - Maria Athina Martimianakis and Mathieu Albert interview

Using narrative analysis to refine theoretical understanding through the application of mētis, a socio-cultural theory novel to the field of medical education.