Achieving Digital Medicine Learning Outcomes Through an Interdisciplinary Course: A Pilot Study.

Incorporating digital medicine into medical education equips students for the evolving landscape of healthcare. This study aimed to assess a digital medicine course developed at Bielefeld University by evaluating student attainment of learning outcomes outlined by Foadi et al. In the course, the students designed a digital application for various medical conditions, taking into account interdisciplinary factors.

Teaching Digital Medicine to Undergraduate Medical Students With an Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Approach: Development and Usability Study.

Background: An integration of digital medicine into medical education can help future physicians shape the digital transformation of medicine.

Objective: We aim to describe and evaluate a newly developed course for teaching digital medicine (the Bielefeld model) for the first time.

Methods: The course was held with undergraduate medical students at Medical School Ostwestfalen-Lippe at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2023 and evaluated via pretest-posttest surveys.

Flipped Classroom: Improved team performance during resuscitation training through interactive pre-course content - a cluster-randomised controlled study.

Background: Resuscitation is a team effort, and it is increasingly acknowledged that team cooperation requires training. Staff shortages in many healthcare systems worldwide, as well as recent pandemic restrictions, limit opportunities for collaborative team training. To address this challenge, a learner-centred approach known as flipped learning has been successfully implemented.

Mixed Reality as a Teaching Tool for Medical Students in Neurosurgery.

: Simulation-based learning within neurosurgery provides valuable and realistic educational experiences in a safe environment, enhancing the current teaching model. Mixed reality (MR) simulation can deliver a highly immersive experience through head-mounted displays and has become one of the most promising teaching tools in medical education. We aimed to identify whether an MR neurosurgical simulation module within the setting of an undergraduate neurosurgical hands-on course could improve the satisfaction of medical students.

Clinical and imaging factors that can predict contagiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Background: Knowledge on predicting pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) contagiosity in the hospital admission setting is limited. The objective was to assess clinical and radiological criteria to predict PTB contagiosity.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 7 clinical, 4 chest X-ray (CXR) and 5 computed tomography (CT) signs in 299 PTB patients admitted to an urban tertiary hospital from 2008 to 2016.

ChatGPT in medical school: how successful is AI in progress testing?

Background: As generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT provides easy access to a wide range of information, including factual knowledge in the field of medicine. Given that knowledge acquisition is a basic determinant of physicians' performance, teaching and testing different levels of medical knowledge is a central task of medical schools. To measure the factual knowledge level of the ChatGPT responses, we compared the performance of ChatGPT with that of medical students in a progress test.

Using longitudinal progress test data to determine the effect size of learning in undergraduate medical education - a retrospective, single-center, mixed model analysis of progress testing results.

Medical education research focuses on the development of efficient learning methods promoting the acquisition of student's knowledge and competencies. Evaluation of any modification of educational approaches needs to be evaluated accordingly and a reliable effect size needs to be reached. Our aim is to provide a methodological basis to calculate effect sizes from longitudinal progress test data that can be used as reference values in further research.

Risk literacy assessment of general practitioners and medical students using the Berlin Numeracy Test.

Background: The responsibility for helping patients understand potential health benefits and risks, especially regarding screening tests, falls largely to general practitioners (GPs). The Berlin Numeracy Test (BNT) specifically measures risk literacy (i.e.

Combination of problem-based learning with high-fidelity simulation in CPR training improves short and long-term CPR skills: a randomised single blinded trial.

Background: Performance of sufficient cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by medical personnel is critical to improve outcomes during cardiac arrest. It has however been shown that even health care professionals possess a lack of knowledge and skills in CPR performance. The optimal method for teaching CPR remains unclear, and data that compares traditional CPR instructional methods with newer modalities of CPR instruction are needed.

Simulation-based mastery learning in medical students: Skill retention at 1-year follow up.

Deficits in basic skill performance and long-term skill retention among medical students and novice doctors are a persistent problem. This controlled study tested whether the addition of a mastery learning component to simulation-based teaching is associated with long-term retention and performance of peripheral venous catheter insertion. Fourth-year medical students were assigned to receive either the control (simulation without mastery learning,  = 131) or the intervention (simulation + mastery learning,  = 133) instruction in peripheral venous catheter insertion.

Physicians' comprehension of the German Patients' Rights Act: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: The German Patients' Rights Act (PRA), promulgated on February 25, 2013, was created to enhance transparency of patients' rights. This prospective study aimed to objectively measure physicians' comprehension of the PRA.

Methods: We generated a controlled study design, developing a questionnaire consisting of six case scenarios with 4-7 dichotomous items each.

High Diagnostic Value of a New Real-Time Pneumocystis PCR from Bronchoalveolar Lavage in a Real-Life Clinical Setting.

Background: To diagnose Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP), PCR testing in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid has recently become an alternative to immunofluorescence testing (IFT); however, its diagnostic accuracy is less clear.

Objective: To analyze the diagnostic value of a new semiquantitative real-time PCR (RT-PCR) in BAL in a real-life clinical setting.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of all RT-PCR results [semiquantitative: negative, weakly positive, and strongly positive; measured in cycle thresholds (Ct)] in BAL in the period between 2010 and 2014.

Mastery learning improves students skills in inserting intravenous access: a pre-post-study.

Objective: Inserting peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) has been identified as a core competency for medical students. Because the performance - even of hygienic standards - of both students and novice physicians is frequently inadequate, medical faculties must focus on competence-based learning objectives and deliberate practice, features that are combined in mastery learning. Our aim was to determine the competency of students in inserting PVCs before and after an educational intervention.

Optimizing the quality of hospital discharge summaries--a systematic review and practical tools.

Objective: Although doctors' discharge summaries (DS) are important forms of communication between the physicians in patient care, deficits in the quality of DS are common. This review aims to answer the following question: according to the literature, how can the quality of DS be improved by (1) interventions; (2) reviews and guidelines of regulatory bodies; and (3) other practical recommendations?

Methods: Systematic review of the literature.

Results: The scientific papers on optimizing the quality of DS (n = 234) are heterogeneous and do not allow any meta-analysis.

[A curricular training of fourth year medical students in writing discharge summaries: the graduate view after two years].

Background: Preparing high quality discharge summaries is difficult for first year residents. For 5 years we have been training fourth year students how to write discharge summaries. Our goal is to facilitate the students' start into clinical work.

[Blended-learning in psychosomatics and psychotherapy - Increasing the satisfaction and knowledge of students with a web-based e-learning tool].

Objectives: To improve the synergy of established methods of teaching, the Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Münster, developed a web-based elearning tool using video clips of standardized patients. The effect of this blended-learning approach was evaluated.

Methods: A multiple-choice test was performed by a naive (without the e-learning tool) and an experimental (with the tool) cohort of medical students to test the groups' expertise in psychosomatics.

Practicing evidence based medicine at the bedside: a randomized controlled pilot study in undergraduate medical students assessing the practicality of tablets, smartphones, and computers in clinical life.

Background: Practicing evidence-based medicine is an important aspect of providing good medical care. Accessing external information through literature searches on computer-based systems can effectively achieve integration in clinical care. We conducted a pilot study using smartphones, tablets, and stationary computers as search devices at the bedside.

Teaching the concept of brain death in undergraduate medical education.

Objective: To establish and evaluate a new approach to teach medical students how to assess brain death in patients.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A total of 120 fourth-year medical students at Münster Medical School (Germany) participated in a 1-hour lecture on how to assess brain death in patients. After this lecture, students were assigned to 2 groups.

Combining simulated patients and simulators: pilot study of hybrid simulation in teaching cardiac auscultation.

Auscultation torsos are widely used to teach position-dependent heart sounds and murmurs. To provide a more realistic teaching experience, both whole body auscultation mannequins and torsos have been used in clinical examination skills training at the Medical Faculty of the University of Muenster since the winter term of 2008-2009. This training has since been extended by simulated patients, which are normal, healthy subjects who have undergone attachment of the electronic components of the auscultation mannequins to their chests to mimic pathophysiological conditions ("hybrid models").

Measuring the ambiguity tolerance of medical students: a cross-sectional study from the first to sixth academic years.

Background: Tolerance of ambiguity, or the extent to which ambiguous situations are perceived as desirable, is an important component of the attitudes and behaviors of medical students. However, few studies have compared this trait across the years of medical school. General practitioners are considered to have a higher ambiguity tolerance than specialists.

Using tree diagrams without numerical values in addition to relative numbers improves students' numeracy skills: a randomized study in medical education.

Background: Physicians and medical students may lack sufficient numeracy skills to make treatment decisions, interpret test results, and practice evidence-based medicine. We evaluated whether the use of a tree diagram without numerical values as an aid for numerical processing might improve students' test results when dealing with percentages.

Methods: A prospective randomized study was carried out with 102 third-year students.

Teaching ultrasound in a curricular course according to certified EFSUMB standards during undergraduate medical education: a prospective study.

Background: As a non-invasive and readily available diagnostic tool, ultrasound is one of the most important imaging techniques in medicine. Ultrasound is usually trained during residency preferable according to German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) standards. Our curriculum calls for undergraduate training in ultrasound of medical students in their 4th year of undergraduate education.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance improves medical students' adherence to guidelines in simulated cardiac arrest: a randomised cross-over study.

Background: The 2010 Resuscitation Guidelines require high-quality chest compression and rapid defibrillation for patients with ventricular fibrillation with rhythm analysis and defibrillation repeated every 2 min. A lack of adherence to the guidelines by medical students was observed during simulated resuscitation training.

Objectives: To assess whether real-time cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance, including an audiovisual countdown timer, a metronome, a display of the chest compression quality and voice prompts, might improve adherence to the guidelines by medical students.

[Evaluation of the clinical course Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy employing standardized patients].

Objective: Since the Winter Term 2008/2009 the Medical School of the University of Muenster, Germany, has used standardized patients in the clinical course Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy with fourth-year undergraduate students performing bio-psycho-social anamnesis on these standardized patients. We wanted to evaluate the influence of the course on the empathy of the students.

Methods: A total of 107 students participated in the standardized patient program during the Winter Term 2009/2010, with 90 (84.

[Familial occurrence of chronic tension headache].

Chronic tension-type headache occurs in 3% of the Danish population. the aetiology remains an enigma, even though it is one of the most frequent illnesses with chronic pain. A family study indicates the importance of genetic factors.