[Exploring Turning Points in the Academic Lives of Health Sciences Students].

Unlabelled: This research set out to identify and describe turning points in the lives of medical, nursing, and psychology students in a school of health sciences at a private university in Argentina. Turning points refer to unexpected events and situations in people's lives where it is possible to determine a change or transformation.

Aim: to explore turning points originating in the health sciences school.

Posta las lilas: A model of integral commitment to the community.

Background: The Posta Sanitaria Las Lilas (La Posta) is a health promotion project of the medical school. Its purpose is to improve the health of individuals and the society by fostering qualitative changes in people's attitudes and habits in relation to every aspect of their health. The project serves a population of 25,000 inhabitants that live in conditions of vulnerability and poverty.

A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to enhance teaching effectiveness: A 10-year update: BEME Guide No. 40.

Background: This review, which focused on faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness, synthesized findings related to intervention types, study characteristics, individual and organizational outcomes, key features, and community building.

Methods: This review included 111 studies (between 2002 and 2012) that met the review criteria.

Findings: Overall satisfaction with faculty development programs was high.

Assessment for selection for the health care professions and specialty training: consensus statement and recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference.

Assessment for selection in medicine and the health professions should follow the same quality assurance processes as in-course assessment. The literature on selection is limited and is not strongly theoretical or conceptual. For written testing, there is evidence of the predictive validity of Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) for medical school and licensing examination performance.

The programs and context of medical education in Argentina.

There are 29 medical schools in Argentina (this number has increased rapidly in the last decade) offering a 6-year curriculum that usually consists of 3 years of basic science, 2 years of clinical sciences, and one internship year. Annually, 5,000 physicians graduate from these programs. Admission requirements vary depending on each university's policy.

A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness in medical education: BEME Guide No. 8.

Background: Preparing healthcare professionals for teaching is regarded as essential to enhancing teaching effectiveness. Although many reports describe various faculty development interventions, there is a paucity of research demonstrating their effectiveness.

Objective: To synthesize the existing evidence that addresses the question: "What are the effects of faculty development interventions on the knowledge, attitudes and skills of teachers in medical education, and on the institutions in which they work?"

Methods: The search, covering the period 1980-2002, included three databases (Medline, ERIC and EMBASE) and used the keywords: staff development; in-service training; medical faculty; faculty training/development; continuing medical education.

How to enjoy your mentee's success and learn from it.

Mentoring plays a central role in academic life. It is based mainly on mutual respect between mentor and mentee, and requires effort, continuity and consideration for different learning styles. It demands hard work, discipline, rigour, creativity, honesty and integrity.