What does consumer and community involvement in health-related education look like? A mixed methods study.

Consumer and community involvement (also referred to as patient and public involvement) in health-related curricula involves actively partnering with people with lived experience of health and social care systems. While health professions education has a long history of interaction with patients or consumers, a shift in the way consumer and community engage in health-related education has created novel opportunities for mutual relationships valuing lived experience expertise and shifting traditional education power relations. Drawing on a mixed methods design, we explored consumer and community involvement practices in the design and delivery of health-related education using the capability, opportunity, motivation and behaviour framework (COM-B).

Using contribution analysis to evaluate health professions and health sciences programs.

Introduction/background: Course evaluation in health education is a common practice yet few comprehensive evaluations of health education exist that measure the impact and outcomes these programs have on developing health graduate capabilities.

Aim/objectives: To explore how curricula contribute to health graduate capabilities and what factors contribute to the development of these capabilities.

Methods: Using contribution analysis evaluation, a six-step iterative process, key stakeholders in the six selected courses were engaged in an iterative theory-driven evaluation.

A systematic review of dengue outbreak prediction models: Current scenario and future directions.

Dengue is among the fastest-spreading vector-borne infectious disease, with outbreaks often overwhelm the health system and result in huge morbidity and mortality in its endemic populations in the absence of an efficient warning system. A large number of prediction models are currently in use globally. As such, this study aimed to systematically review the published literature that used quantitative models to predict dengue outbreaks and provide insights about the current practices.

Methods of teaching evidence-based practice: a systematic review.

Background: To identify the effectiveness of different teaching modalities on student evidence-based practice (EBP) competency.

Methods: Electronic searches were conducted in MEDLINE, Cochrane central register of controlled trials, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC, A + Education and AEI through to November 2021. We included randomised-controlled trials comparing EBP teaching modes on EBP knowledge, skills, attitudes or behaviour in undergraduate and post-graduate health professions education.

- Medical students' experiences of interrupted academic progression.

Introduction: There is limited published research on medical students' perspectives of a significant interruption to their academic progression. This study sought to identify the factors that contribute to difficulties with academic progression and to understand how medical students successfully respond.

Methods: This interpretive phenomenological study reports on the findings from in-depth interviews of 38 final year medical students who had experienced a significant academic interruption.

Twelve tips for medical students experiencing an interruption in their academic progress.

For every commencing cohort of medical students, a small but significant number will experience an interruption to their academic progression because of academic difficulties, health concerns or external influences outside of the students' control. During the process of researching the factors surrounding difficulties with academic progression, students told us many ways that they have learned from that experience, which then allowed most of them to graduate. This paper combines the shared experiences of students who have had an interruption, and those of the authors as medical educators.

A realist review of scholarly experiences in medical education.

Context: Scholarly experiences have been increasingly employed to support the development of scholarly skills for medical students. How the characteristics of the various scholarly experiences contributes to scholarly outcomes or the complexities of how the experiences build skills warrants further exploration.

Objectives: To identify how medical students' scholarly experiences lead to scholarly outcomes under what circumstances.

Evaluating the use of twitter as a tool to increase engagement in medical education.

Background: Social media is regularly used by undergraduate students. Twitter has a constant feed to the most current research, news and opinions of experts as well as organisations. Limited evidence exists that examines how to use social media platforms, such as Twitter, effectively in medical education.

Clinical Outcomes Associated with Medication Regimen Complexity in Older People: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: To systematically review clinical outcomes associated with medication regimen complexity in older people.

Design: Systematic review of EMBASE, MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Cochrane library.

Setting: Hospitals, home, and long-term care.

What are the attributes of a good health educator?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the attributes that students and educators believe are important to being a good health educator in a non-clinical setting.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of first-year health science students and educators involved with a Health Science course in Melbourne, Australia was performed. A convenience sampling approach was implemented, with participants were required to rate the importance of teaching attributes on a previously developed 15-item written questionnaire.

The impact of clinical maturity on competency in evidence-based medicine: a mixed-methods study.

Objective: To identify whether the clinical maturity of medical trainees impacts upon the level of trainee competency in evidence-based medicine (EBM).

Materials And Methods: Undergraduate and graduate-entry medical trainees entering their first year of training in the clinical environment were recruited for this study. Competency in EBM was measured using a psychometrically validated instrument.

Spontaneously reported haemorrhagic adverse events associated with rivaroxaban and dabigatran in Australia.

Objectives: The objective of our study was to describe spontaneously reported haemorrhagic adverse events associated with rivaroxaban and dabigatran in Australia.

Methods: Data were sourced from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Database of Adverse Event Notifications between June 2009 and May 2014. Records of haemorrhagic adverse events in which rivaroxaban or dabigatran was considered as a potential cause were analysed.

Recruiting elderly patients for non-interventional research - successful strategies and lessons learnt.

Background: Our aims were to profile individuals unable to be recruited to a community based non-interventional study investigating warfarin safety, and to share the lessons learnt.

Methods: The target population comprised community-based adults stabilised on warfarin. Recruitment strategies included partnering with a third party pathology provider, an 'opt out' approach, and minimising the timeframe to recruitment.

The unrecognized psychosocial factors contributing to bleeding risk in warfarin therapy.

Background And Purpose: Warfarin is an effective drug for the prevention of thromboembolism in the elderly. The major risk for patients taking warfarin is bleeding. We aimed to assess the impact of psychosocial factors, including mood, cognition, social isolation, and health literacy on warfarin instability among community-based elderly patients.

Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?

Objective: To identify potential weaknesses in the system of managing warfarin therapy.

Design, Participants And Setting: A structured interview-based study of 40 community-dwelling patients taking warfarin and with an international normalised ratio > or = 6.0 and 36 of their treating doctors (35 general practitioners and 1 specialist), conducted between July and November 2007.