INTRODUCTION Self and peer assessment provides important information about the individual's performance and behavior in all aspects of their professional environment work. The aim of this study is to evaluate the professional behavior and performance in medical students in the form of team based assessment. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 100 medical students in the 7(th) year of educatio...

An annual self-assessment sets the board's educational agenda.

INTRODUCTION Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has established itself as a strong predictor of future medical practice by medical students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of EBM in pre-clinical years and reflect on self-assessment skill of 4th semester medical students regarding the understanding of EBM and its various determinants. METHODS All of the 4th semester (M...

IN THE CLINICAL SETTING we want to enhance the learning of students, junior doctors and trainees to help them be better doctors, but not increase the time we spend making that happen. Junior doctors are adults who want to learn. If we feel that learning is not progressing as it should, we need to consider whether the style in which we teach and the style in which junior doctors like to learn ar...

Interprofessional education (IPE) involves learning, and learning requires reflection. Educators need to "reflect more on reflection" if they are to be effective teachers in ensuring the learning outcomes essential for teamwork and interprofessional practice (IPP), including incorporating both theory and practice into the development of educational interventions. First, this discussion surveys ...

We illustrate the usefulness of person-fit methodology for personality assessment. For this purpose, we use person-fit methods from item response theory. First, we give a nontechnical introduction to existing person-fit statistics. Second, we analyze data from Harter's (1985) Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985) in a sample of children ranging from 8 to 12 years of age (N = 611) ...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the creation of a standardized comprehensive resident curriculum in pediatric radiology that uses adult learning principles authored by international experts and addresses the six general competencies required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. CONCLUSION Web-based learning with an online curriculum has the potential to become an inte...

Adults overestimate the detail and depth of their explanatory knowledge, but through providing explanations they recognize their initial illusion of understanding. By contrast, they are much more accurate in making self-assessments for other kinds of knowledge, such as for procedures, narratives, and facts. Two studies examined this illusion of explanatory depth with 48 children each in grades ...

1 Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and 2 Simulation Centre for Patient Safety, Tamaki Innovation Campus, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92-019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand 3 Department of Anaesthesia, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Medicine Education and Student Office, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Australia 5 Dep...

Few middle-aged and elderly people get enough exercise from sports or leisure-time physical activity. Therefore, the impact of everyday physical activity on health is a matter of interest. The main objective of this study was to establish whether bicycle use in everyday life is positively associated with health. A sample of 982 randomly selected men and 1,020 women age 50-70 were asked in a com...