[Interactive tools to standardize semiology teaching].

Background: The learning process for medical semiology depends on multidisciplinary teaching activities, including simulation tools. These tools should achieve a standardization level aiming at a same level of basic knowledge in each student.

Aim: To evaluate an interactive online semiology learning tool.

Evaluation of Radiology Teachers' Performance and Identification of the "Best Teachers" in a Residency Program: Mixed Methodology and Pilot Study of the MEDUC-RX32 Questionnaire.

Rationale And Objectives: Radiology teachers are well trained in their specialty; however, when working in academic institutions, faculty development and promotion through the education pathway tends to be based on their teaching knowledge and skills. The aim of this study is to assess psychometric properties of the Medicina Universidad Católica-Radiology 32 items (MEDUC-RX32), an instrument designed to evaluate the performance of postgraduate radiology teachers and to identify the best teachers.

Materials And Methods: Mixed methodology was used, including qualitative and quantitative phases.

[Development of MEDUC-PG14 survey to assess postgraduate teaching in medical specialties].

Background: Feedback is one of the most important tools to improve teaching in medical education.

Aim: To develop an instrument to assess the performance of clinical postgraduate teachers in medical specialties.

Material And Methods: A qualitative methodology consisting in interviews and focus-groups followed by a quantitative methodology to generate consensus, was employed.

[Assessment for learning: experience in an undergraduate medical theoretical course].

Background: Assessment for learning is a paradigm that is taking shape in the field of medical education. This approach aims to embed the assessment process within the educational and learning process.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of curricular changes, from a focus of assessment of learning to one of assessment for learning, in the perception of undergraduate students of medicine and their final grades obtained in a theoretical course (TCG).

Management of Helicobacter pylori infection in Latin America: a Delphi technique-based consensus.

Aim: To optimize diagnosis and treatment guidelines for this geographic region, a panel of gastroenterologists, epidemiologists, and basic scientists carried out a structured evaluation of available literature.

Methods: Relevant questions were distributed among the experts, who generated draft statements for consideration by the entire panel. A modified three-round Delphi technique method was used to reach consensus.

[Evaluation of the educational environment in medical specialty programs].

Background: The Postgraduate Hospital Education Environment Measure (PHEEM) questionnaire, is a valid and reliable instrument to measure the educational environment (EE) in postgraduate medical education.

Aim: To evaluate the EE perceived by the residents of a postgraduate training program using the PHEEM.

Material And Methods: The PHEEM was applied in 2010-2011 in 35 specialty programs.

Development of ACLEEM questionnaire, an instrument measuring residents' educational environment in postgraduate ambulatory setting.

Background: Students' perceptions of their educational environment (EE) have been studied in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Postgraduate EE has been measured in hospital settings. However, there are no instruments available to measure the EE in postgraduate ambulatory settings.