Abstract: Introduction: Competency-based education has been discussed under the new perspective of COVID-19 pandemic. The need for social distancing had effects on student activities and educational institutions needed to reflect redesign teaching-learning process. It was necessary incorporate contents related into medical training programs adapt teaching tools. Therefore, it is that be mediate...

BACKGROUND Internship and residency are difficult times with novice practitioners facing new challenges and stressors. Junior doctors may experience burnout, a syndrome that encompasses three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment. While there is some existing literature on the prevalence of burnout in junior doctors, there are few studies on int...

background: programming and planning an appropriate structure for internship and purposeful assessments of students play a considerable role in developing their practical and theoretical knowledge level. one of the suitable alternatives for the traditional method is assessing internship through objective structured clinical examination (osce). therefore the aim of the present study is to perfor...

background and purpose: the importance of training basic and advanced life support for undergraduates and graduated physicians are now widely recognized. graduates of medical schools in iran immediately get license to practice medicine without any supervision. therefore, clarification of the best phases for training cpr and the optimum mastery level in each phase is very important. this study i...

This study assessed the effectiveness of education reforms on student-reported learning outcomes at the end of the 5-year medical school (M5) and 1-year internship (HO) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. A self-administered anonymous survey with 17 learning outcomes assessed, derived from Harden's Three-Circle Outcomes Model for outcomes-based education, was administered to 683 students at the end of medi...

The authors examined applicants’ perceptions of internship site types by specialty affiliation (clinical and counseling psychology). Multidimensional scaling analyses suggest that clinical psychology students focus their attention on internship site prestige, future job opportunities, opportunities for research, degree of client psychopathology and physical illness, and their overall comfort in...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS An increased frequency of patient handoffs has occurred as a result of the new resident work-hour restrictions that have recently been instituted. Inadequate handoff of patient care has been associated with adverse patient events due to residents being unprepared for events that happen during cross cover periods. The objective of our study was to develop and test the effec...