A concept for adapting medical education to the next generations via three-staged digital peer teaching key feature cases.

While the core principles of medical education remain the same, the students' socioecological backgrounds, values and learning requirements are constantly changing. Bridging the generation gap between teachers and students is a key challenge of medical didactics. To meet the demands of today's classroom, we piloted a novel three-stage peer teaching and key feature concept.

The potential of medical comics to teach palliative care skills: a cross-sectional study of 668 medical students.

Background: Palliative care (PC) skills are important when caring for patients with advanced illness in a broad range of settings. Students need to be trained in communication and empathy, both representing essential PC skills. Therefore, creative approaches could promote the understanding of relevant PC skills.

Gender differences in examination behavior of 4th grade medical students : Results from an observational study on ECG e-learning.

Background: Computer-assisted teaching is becoming increasingly more important to acquire new knowledge and skills in medical curricula. The consequence of gender-characteristic personality traits on academic performance in e‑learning examinations are difficult to forecast. This study investigated gender-related differences in examination behavior among undergraduate medical students taking a web-based quiz.

Fluid overload in patients undergoing TAVR: what we can learn from the nephrologists.

Aims: Fluid overload (FO) puts aortic stenosis (AS) patients at risk for heart failure (HF) and death. However, conventional FO assessment, including rapid weight gain, peripheral oedema, or chest radiography, is inaccurate. Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) allows objective and reproducible FO quantification, particularly if clinically unapparent.

Right ventricular function and outcome in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Aims: Right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) on echocardiography has been shown to predict outcomes in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). However, a comparison with the gold standard, RV ejection fraction (EF) on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), has never been performed.

Methods And Results: Consecutive patients scheduled for TAVR underwent echocardiography and CMR.

Light-chain and transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in severe aortic stenosis: prevalence, screening possibilities, and outcome.

Aims: Concomitant cardiac amyloidosis (CA) in severe aortic stenosis (AS) is difficult to recognize, since both conditions are associated with concentric left ventricular thickening. We aimed to assess type, frequency, screening parameters, and prognostic implications of CA in AS.

Methods And Results: A total of 191 consecutive AS patients (81.