Introduction: The purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. Methods: After Ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

This report summarises the results of the eighth workshop in a series of workshops on pedagogies and tools for the teaching and learning of object-oriented concepts. The submissions to this year’s workshop mainly covered curriculum issues, tool support for teaching, and case studies. Several contributions dealt with teaching object-orientation to non-Majors (junior high-school students, non-Sci...

background: clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. this research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   methods: this research is a semi-experimental study. nineteen medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a tw...

Background & aim: Modifications in learning systems based on the concepts of self-efficacy and self-esteem are among the suggested strategies to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of two interactive educational workshops with or without standardized patients (SPs) on midwifery students' self-efficacy in providing sexual health counseli...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a 1-day evidence-based medicine (EBM) workshop on physician attitudes and behaviours around teaching and practicing EBM. DESIGN A mixed methods study using a before/after cohort. SETTING A medical school delivering continuing professional development to 1250 clinical faculty over a large geographic area in Canada. PARTICIP...

INTRODUCTION Patient bedside is the ideal setting for teaching physical examination, medical interviewing, and interpersonal skills. Herein we describe a novel model for bedside teaching (BST) practiced during tutor training workshop and its resulting effect on practitioners' self assessment of teaching skills and perceptions. METHODS One-day tutor training workshop included theoretical knowl...

Background: Nowadays, faculty development programs to improve teaching quality are considered to be very important by medical educators from all over the world. However, the assessment of the impact of such programs rarely exceeds tests of participants' knowledge gain or self-assessments of their teaching behavior. It remains unclear what exactly is expected of the attending faculty and how the...