Identifying and Exploring the Cognitive Nature of Threshold Concepts in Pharmacology to Improve Medical Students' Learning.

Pharmacology is a fundamental healthcare discipline, but it can be difficult and counterintuitive for learners to learn. Navigation toward understanding pharmacology can be troublesome, but once the threshold to comprehension is crossed, learners can experience a transformative shift in their ways of thinking and practicing. We conducted an in-depth examination of threshold concepts within pharmacology, aiming to identify and prioritize their learning to improve the medical curriculum and enhance medical treatment and patient safety.

Twelve tips for adopting the virtual Nominal Group Technique (vNGT) in medical education research.

Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is a structured approach to consensus development and data collection driven by problem-solving, idea inception and prioritisation. Challenges of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic necessitated the development of a virtual (vNGT) model to recruit participants from diverse locations and time zones. Our reflections reveal the opportunities and challenges of using Zoom for NGT sessions, resulting in more effective engagement and focus with fewer distractions compared to in-person meetings.

Blended learning mediated fostering of students' engagement in an undergraduate medical education module.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction The study investigated students' perception of introducing blended learning strategies to engage and motivate them towards lecture halls and Problem Based Learning (PBL) sessions for improving the quality of the overall students' learning experience.

Concept Animation - a potential instructional scaffolding.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Concept animation - the graphical array of pictures accompanied by text as speech balloons, can help to improve learner's comprehension from basic to advanced levels concepts.

Frequency of FMR1 gene mutation and CGG repeat polymorphism in intellectually disabled children in Pakistan.

Fragile X syndrome is considered the most common heritable form of X-linked intellectual disability (ID). The syndrome is caused by silencing of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (Xq27.3) due to hypermethylation.