BACKGROUND The stigma of mental illness among medical students is a prevalent concern that has far reaching negative consequences. Attempts to combat this stigma through educational initiatives have had mixed results. This study examined the impact of a one-time contact-based educational intervention on the stigma of mental illness among medical students and compared this with a multimodal unde...

Management guidelines for many rheumatic diseases are published in specialty rheumatology literature but rarely in general medical journals. Musculoskeletal disorders comprise 14% of all consultations in primary care. Formal post-graduate training in rheumatology is limited or absent for many primary care practitioners. Primary care practitioners can be trained to effectively treat complex dise...

BACKGROUND The Chief Medical Officer has presented a report proposing a change in general practitioners' education towards a 'Practice Professional Development Plan', which, in principle, is based around formal needs assessment, practice-based learning in areas identified by those involved, and with the potential for multi-professional learning. This aims to replace the present system of a fina...

Educational data mining is inherently falls into the category of the so-called secondary data analysis. It is common that data that have been collected for administrative or some other purposes at some point is considered as valuable for other (research) purpose. Collection of the student generated, student behavior and student performance related data on a massive scale in MOOCs, ITSs, LMS and...

This special issue answers an urgent need in academic psychiatry to find creative new solutions to our field’s increasing reliance on residents as teachers. Two forces are driving this. One is an old problem that is now getting the recognition that it deserves. Medical schools and their affiliated hospitals have long neglected the preparation of residents to teach despite the fact that resident...

Emergency medicine residency programs offer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) curricula to address Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) milestones. While some programs offer advanced clinical tracks in EMS, no standard curriculum exists. We sought to establish a well-defined EMS curriculum to allow interested residents to develop advanced clinical skills and scholarship w...

This study uses Cohesion Network Analysis (CNA) indices to identify student patterns related to course completion in a massive open online course (MOOC). This analysis examines a subsample of 320 students who completed at least one graded assignment and produced at least 50 words in discussion forums in a MOOC on educational data mining. The findings indicate that CNA indices predict with subst...

Interest of scientific research on Open Source software and its development process is frequent. The number of articles available and the number of tracks or workshops on this topic in most relevant IS Conferences is high. The usability of Open Source Software has been scarcely considered until few years ago, probably due to the particular role that the user has in such a development environmen...

Educational Software Design is a postgraduate course which deals with the design, implementation and evaluation of Educational Systems. A main focus of the course is the human-centred design methods for the development of Educational Software. Based on this approach at the final assignment some students were involved in the formative evaluation process of the AES “MyProject”, as a representativ...