BACKGROUND Simulation-based medical education has rapidly evolved over the past two decades, despite this, there are few published reports of its use in critical care teaching. We hypothesised that simulation-based teaching of a critical care topic to final-year medical students is superior to lecture-based teaching. METHODS Thirty-nine final-year medical students were randomly assigned to ei...

OBJECTIVES To determine what standard paediatric medical students would set for examining their peers and how that would compare with the university standard. DESIGN Single blinded computer marked examination with questionnaire. SETTING University medical school. SUBJECTS Medical students during their final paediatric attachment. INTERVENTIONS Medical students asked to derive 10, five b...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare the educational impact of the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine (UGFM) emergency medicine clerkship training with that provided by the Swiss Army medical officer cadets school (ARMY). The assessment was designed to assess students' clinical knowledge and competency in major emergency situations, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and ATLS (Advanced Tr...

Background The term Metacognition refers to the psychological processes that are involved in the way a person controls, modifies, and appraises his own thoughts [1]. Maladaptive metacognitions have been related to the development and maintenance of psychological disorder [2,3]. The Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30) is a multidimensional instrument for assessing metacognitions, composed o...