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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"medical curriculum"”.
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Enactment of LGBTQ Health in Medical Curriculum
This dissertation examined the extent to which medical educational institutions adapt their curriculum to meet the needs of a marginalized patient population, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. Because LGBTQ populations experience significant health and health care …
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ANATOMY AND PROFESSIONALISM IN AN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL CURRICULUM
… Anatomy and professionalism in an undergraduate medical curriculum Higher degree for which submitted: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Year of submission: 2010 This thesis describes two themes within the undergraduate medical curriculum; innovations in anatomy teaching, and the assessment of …
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How can the process of professional identity formation of a gender-affirming practitioner inform medical curriculum change?
… of a gender-affirming practitioner inform medical curriculum change? Methodology The objectives of the study were to: a. Analyse the process of professional identity formation of gender-affirming health care practitioners and students, using narrative interviews. b. Illuminate how medical …
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Three-Dimensional Visualization Technology in the Medical Curriculum: Exploring Faculty Use in Preclinical, Clinical, and Postgraduate Anatomy Education
… provides exciting new opportunities in medical education, including new methods for teaching complex anatomical relationships and promising tools for the training of postgraduate physicians. Information on how faculty use three-dimensional visualization technology for anatomy education …
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Proposing clinician competency guidelines for the inclusion of disability in the undergraduate medical curriculum of South Africa - an exploratory study
… included in professional training curricula for medical doctors. Aim of the study The purpose of this study is to add to the body of knowledge that would facilitate the inclusion of disability in the undergraduate medical curriculum in South Africa. Methods This is a mixed method, sequential …
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Medical students' recognition of core knowledge in a supported problem-based learning curriculum
… in a supported problem-based learning (PBL) medical curriculum. Self-directed learning and an emphasis on the clinical relevance of core knowledge are features of this curriculum.
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Observations on anencephaly
… of the extraordi.nary and the anomalous,when the medical curriculum abounds in 'suggestions of topics which might appear to have a greater claim on the attention, if. only from the standpoint of their more obvious practical utility. Interest and opportunity plead in explanation,an interest …
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Predictors of Academic Difficulties of Osteopathic Medical Students in the Preclinical Curriculum
… during the first year of an osteopathic medical curriculum. This was done in order to identify factors that might suggest that osteopathic students will experience academic difficulties early in their enrollment. Procedures: Ex post facto research in the form of a retrospective …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
This dissertation examines excavated medical, incantatory, and divinatory manuals from early China. These manuals are studied collectively as medicine and people's engagement with the spirit world were inseparable. While there has been much research into the early Chinese medical and divinatory …
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A Qualitative Study of Adult Women in a Northeast Tennessee Community College.
… Most of them were enrolled in a business or medical curriculum. Students viewed general education courses positively. They saw such courses as expanding their outlook on life and opening up new worlds for them. All of the students said they would recommend returning to school to other women …
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Does speech prosody matter in health communication? Evidence from native and non-native English speaking medical students in a simulated clinical interaction
… training as a core part of the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. NHS complaints statistics involving perceived staff attitudes have remained high, despite extensive communication skills training. Furthermore, foreign doctors have received a higher proportion of complaints than UK doctors. …
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Conceptualising differentiated forms of knowledge : the Medical (MBChB) curriculum of the University of Cape Town
Two major features characterise the change to the Medical curriculum at the University of Cape Town, which occurred in 2002, namely: a traditional didactic approach to teaching was replaced by a problem-based learning programme, and the traditional biomedical model was replaced by a …
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Emergency registrars' and physicians' perceptions and preparedness to respond to the health impacts of climate change: a survey study
… of climate-related health education into medical curricula to prepare emergency medicine specialists in response to the health impacts of climate change. Key Terms: emergency medicine, emergency healthcare professional, climate-related health impacts, climate-related health education, …
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Emergency registrars' and physicians' perceptions and preparedness to respond to the health impacts of climate change: a survey study
… of climate-related health education into medical curricula to prepare emergency medicine specialists in response to the health impacts of climate change. Key Terms: emergency medicine, emergency healthcare professional, climate-related health impacts, climate-related health education, …
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Effects of a Combined Didactic and Experiential Death Education/Empathy Training Program on Death Anxiety and Empathic Ability of Medical Students
The problem. The majority of medical students are not being adequately prepared to communicate empathically with dying patients. Students' personal anxieties and fear of death may lessen and their empathic interpersonal skills increase with formal academic preparation This study examined the …
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Patients presenting to primary and secondary care with dermatological conditions in south-east Scotland with reference to the dermatological training of general practitioners
… for general practitioners and the core medical curriculum in some UK universities is lacking in adequate dermatology training. An anonymous postal questionnaire was circulated to 583 Lothian GPs, with a response rate of 67 %. A qualitative approach was used to detail GPs' experience of …
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Does Simulation Enhance or Inhibit the Development of Self-Knowledge?
Simulation has been widely adopted in medical education. Traditionally, the design of simulation activities was through a hierarchical approach where experts within a specialty contributed to the development of content and assessment processes. Whilst this has proved to be a reliable method, the …
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A social realist study of the mechanisms that condition lecturers emerging assessment practices
Assessment as part of the enacted curriculum is underscored by the professional judgement of the lecturer, who decides on the body of knowledge that should be learned. A vacuum exists in understanding how the practice of assessment is shaped by the lecturer and between the social groups within …
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Multimodal textbook design : analyzing the construction of the discourses of pharmacology
… over which Pharmacology textbook fourth year medical students should use. The founding argument is that a Pharmacology textbook can be seen as constructing the discourses of the 'prescribing physician' As such, it simultaneously constructs and bears imprints of particular ideologies, …
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Professionalism in medicine in South Africa - a focus on medical students and their educators
… has been widely reflected, including within the medical curriculum at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in Cape Town, South Africa, which provides the context for this research. The aim of this study was to explore how medical students and their educators understand and experience professionalism …
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