OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. PARTICIPANTS A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated...

BACKGROUND simulation-based teaching is increasingly used in medical education, but no studies have evaluated its impact on learning in geriatric medicine. We developed and delivered a simulation teaching session on delirium, falls, elder abuse and breaking bad news. Simulation mannequins, professional role-players and simulated clinical documentation were all incorporated into scenarios. We ev...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A variety of clinical research training programs exist throughout the United States, although little is known about their methods, content, and outcomes. This report describes a model of clinical research training designed to teach medical students research processes in family medicine, while yielding data for research studies. Authors present a description and evaluat...

The Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University strives to create a workforce that represents the racial, ethnic, and sex diversity of U.S. society. To that end, the division has developed a summer program for underrepresented minority first-year medical students to expose them to geriatric medicine and research. The ultimate aim of this initiative is to recru...

BACKGROUND The accurate knowledge of generic medicine issues among future prescribers will enhance the prescribing of cost-effective medicines. This study aimed to explore the knowledge and perception of senior medical students about the generic medicines. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional study was conducted among 237 senior medical students (final year students and interns) using a validated se...

INTRODUCTION The teaching of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has now been incorporated as an integral part of medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital but there is little research into the effectiveness of the course. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the EBM skills of medical students and competency of the faculty member. MATERIALS AND METHODS The EBM course ...

Little is known about how medical students view academic medicine. This multi-institutional study explored student perceptions of this career path. During 2009-2010, third- and fourth-year students at three United States medical schools completed a 30-item online survey. In total, 239 students completed the questionnaire (37 % response rate). Significant predictors of students' desires for acad...

1Department of Consulting and Diagnostics, Central Research Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Russia 2Department of oral & maxillofacial surgery, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Studies, Russia 3Department of Oral Maxillofacial Head Neck Oncology, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, ...

Darwinian medicine applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the problems of medicine. It asks, for each disease, bWhy has natural selection left the body vulnerable to this disease?Q There are six possible kinds of answers: (1) novel environments, (2) co-evolution with pathogens, (3) constraints on what natural selection can do, (4) design trade-offs, (5) traits that increase reproduct...