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Open Access“Tell me what is ‘better’!” How medical students experience feedback, through the lens of self-regulatory learning
While feedback aims to support learning, students frequently struggle to use it. In studying feedback responses there is a gap in explaining them in relation to learning theory. This study explores how feedbac...
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Open AccessEmpowerment and enablement and their associations with change in health-related quality of life after a supported osteoarthritis self-management programme – a prospective observational study
Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Current treatment supports co** strategies to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The need to predict response to treatment has been rai...
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Open AccessEnablement and empowerment among patients participating in a supported osteoarthritis self-management programme – a prospective observational study
In Sweden, core treatment for osteoarthritis is offered through a Supported Osteoarthritis Self-Management Programme (SOASP), combining education and exercise to provide patients with co** strategies in self...
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Open AccessA sco** review: virtual patients for communication skills in medical undergraduates
Communication is an essential competence for medical students. Virtual patients (VP), computerized educational tools where users take the role of doctor, are increasingly used. Despite the wide range of VP uti...
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Open Access“It’s okay to not know …” a qualitative exploration of faculty approaches to working with uncertainty
Whilst it is recognised that a capacity to manage uncertainty is an essential aspect of working as a healthcare professional, there is little clear guidance on how to facilitate student learning in this domain...
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Open AccessThe ubiquity of uncertainty: a sco** review on how undergraduate health professions’ students engage with uncertainty
Although the evidence base around uncertainty and education has expanded in recent years, a lack of clarity around conceptual terms and a heterogeneity of study designs means that this landscape remains indist...
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Open AccessA realist evaluation exploring simulated patient role-play in pharmacist undergraduate communication training
Effective communication between pharmacists and patients is essential and improves health outcomes. Simulated patients (SPs) are trained to reproduce real-life situations and can help pharmacy students to deve...
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Open AccessPatient involvement in assessing consultation quality: validation of patient enablement instrument (PEI) in Lithuanian general practice
The Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) was designed to encapsulate consultation outcome from the perspective that increasing their understanding and co** ability would underpin a positive consultation outco...
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Learning Cardiac Embryology—Which Resources Do Students Use, and Why?
With increasing class sizes, small group activities for learning embryology are present in few institutions. How then do students supplement their lectures in order to ask and answer questions, or delve into c...
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Open AccessCan e-learning improve the performance of undergraduate medical students in Clinical Microbiology examinations?
Clinical Microbiology is a core subject in medical undergraduate curricula. However, students struggle to cover the content and clinically contextualise basic microbiology. Our aim was to evaluate student enga...
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Open AccessThe ‘connectaholic’ behind the curtain: medical student use of computer devices in the clinical setting and the influence of patients
The use of mobile devices such as tablets and laptops by students to support their learning is now ubiquitous. The clinical setting is an environment, which lends itself to the use of mobile devices as student...
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Open AccessPeer assessment to improve medical student’s contributions to team-based projects: randomised controlled trial and qualitative follow-up
Medical schools increasingly incorporate teamwork in their curricula but medical students often have a negative perception of team projects, in particular when there is unequal participation. The purpose of th...
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Open AccessA comparative study: do “clickers” increase student engagement in multidisciplinary clinical microbiology teaching?
Audience response devices, or “clickers”, have been used in the education of future healthcare professionals for several years with varying success. They have been reported to improve the learning experience b...
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Open AccessHow can pharmacists develop patient-pharmacist communication skills? A realist review protocol
Good patient-pharmacist communication improves health outcomes. There is, however, room for improving pharmacists’ communication skills. These develop through complex interactions during undergraduate pharmacy...
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Open AccessChoice and perception of the nursing profession from the perspective of Polish nursing students: a focus group study
Although previous quantitative studies provide important information on the factors which influence the choice of nursing as a career, qualitative analysis makes it possible to study the subject more thoroughl...
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Open AccessWhat do older people value when they visit their general practitioner? A qualitative study
Older patients see their general practitioners (GPs) relatively often and so recognition of their preferences can lead to improvement of quality of care in general practice. This study aimed to identify which ...
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Open AccessFamily physicians’ professional identity formation: a study protocol to explore impression management processes in institutional academic contexts
Despite significant differences in terms of medical training and health care context, the phenomenon of medical students’ declining interest in family medicine has been well documented in North America and in ...
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Open AccessNew Insight into the Role of Patients During Medical Appointments: A Synthesis of Three Qualitative Studies
The complexity of the doctor-patient relationship requires in-depth research to enable a better understanding of the nature of the doctor’s appointment.
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Open AccessHow does gender influence the recognition of cardiovascular risk and adherence to self-care recommendations?: a study in polish primary care
Studies have shown a correlation between gender and an ability to change lifestyle to reduce the risk of disease. However, the results of these studies are ambiguous, especially where a healthy lifestyle is co...
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Open AccessPerceptions of an older patient on the role of the family doctor in health promotion: a qualitative case study
Health promotion and disease prevention are important aspects of primary health care. However, limited data are available concerning the opinions of older patients towards the respective services offered by fa...
