Normal experiential learning that leads to an expert professional in clinical practice is associated with prolonged exposure to that practice. The overriding idea is that by simulating clinical scenarios, learning is accelerated by the debriefing/feedback session. The expert knowledge is made explicit to the trainee and reinforced with video and verbal feedback. Definition Simulate: Latin simul...

OBJECTIVES To find how early experience in clinical and community settings ("early experience") affects medical education, and identify strengths and limitations of the available evidence. DESIGN A systematic review rating, by consensus, the strength and importance of outcomes reported in the decade 1992-2001. DATA SOURCES Bibliographical databases and journals were searched for publication...

Introduction: The demand for mobile learning in the medicalsciences educational program is increasing. The present reviewstudy gathers evidence highlighted by the experimental studieson the educational effects of mobile learning for medical sciencesstudents.Methods: The study was carried out as a systematic literaturesearch published from 2007 to July 2017 in the databases PubMed/Medline, Cumul...

REVIEW DATE Review period January 1992-December 2001. Final analysis July 2004-January 2005. BACKGROUND AND REVIEW CONTEXT: There has been no rigorous systematic review of the outcomes of early exposure to clinical and community settings in medical education. OBJECTIVES OF REVIEW: Identify published empirical evidence of the effects of early experience in medical education, analyse it, and synt...

BACKGROUND Preparing healthcare professionals for teaching is regarded as essential to enhancing teaching effectiveness. Although many reports describe various faculty development interventions, there is a paucity of research demonstrating their effectiveness. OBJECTIVE To synthesize the existing evidence that addresses the question: "What are the effects of faculty development interventions ...

BACKGROUND Effectiveness of medical education programs is most meaningfully measured as performance of its graduates. OBJECTIVES To assess the value of measurements obtained in medical schools in predicting future performance in medical practice. METHODS SEARCH STRATEGY The English literature from 1955 to 2004 was searched using MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane's EPOC (Effective Practice and Or...

BACKGROUND One of the most frequently used assessment tools that measure the trainees' performance in workplace is the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX), in which an expert observes and rates the actual performance of trainees. Several primary studies have evaluated the effectiveness of mini-CEX by assessing its educational and psychometric properties. The objective of this BEME revi...

'Aristotelian logic', as it was taught from late antiquity until the 20th century, commonly included a short presentation of the argument forms modus (ponendo) ponens, modus (tollendo) tollens, modus ponendo tollens, and modus tollendo ponens. In late antiquity, arguments of these forms were generally classified as 'hypothetical syllogisms'. However, Aristotle did not discuss such arguments, no...

Stefan A. Tschanz, MD, Institute of Anatomy, Bühlstrasse 26, CH-3000 Beme 9 (Switzerland) In human lung development we distinguish a preand a postnatal period. After the formation of the lung diverticulum from the foregut at gestation day 26, the further development can be subdivided into 5 stages [1]. In the pseiidoglandular stage (prenatal weeks 5-17) the lung bud grows and divides dichoto-mo...