Is it possible to introduce an interview to the Korean Medical Licensing Examination to assess professional attributes?: a survey-based observational study.

Purpose: This study aimed to gather opinions from medical educators on the possibility of introducing an interview to the Korean Medical Licensing Examination (KMLE) to assess professional attributes. Specifically following topics were dealt with: the appropriate timing and tool to assess unprofessional conduct; the possiblity of prevention of unprofessional conduct by introducing an interview to the KMLE; and the possibility of implementation of an interview to the KMLE.

Methods: A cross-sectional study approach based on a survey questionnaire was adopted.

Evaluating medical students' ability to identify and report errors: finding gaps in patient safety education.

Background: Although there are frequent complaints of medical students' incompetence in reporting errors, few studies have examined their error-reporting abilities in the real world.

Objectives: Three sub-functions of self-regulation theory were used to evaluate medical students' ability to identify errors (self-monitoring), analyse root causes (self-judgment), and devise improvement plans (self-reactions). In addition, whether students reacted differently to their errors and those of others (three sub-functions) was also examined.

Negative school experiences of Late Millennial Korean medical students: a qualitative study using the critical incident technique.

Purpose: Today's students have distinctive generational characteristics and increased psychopathology and generational tension. The authors investigated the negative experiences of Late Millennial students in medical school to draw implications for student support.

Methods: The authors explored medical students' negative experiences using the critical incident technique.

Understanding medical students' empathy based on Enneagram personality types.

Purpose: High self-awareness can promote communication and empathy. The Enneagram is a well-known personality tool to enhance self-awareness. We evaluated differences in empathy among medical students using the Enneagram typology.

Medical students interact with multicultural patients to learn cultural diversity.

Purpose: The aim was to present our experiences implementing a cultural diversity (CD) education program.

Methods: The authors held a 4-hour CD class for third-year medical students. The aim of the class was to facilitate students to realize and reflect on the importance of CD on healthcare delivery in Korea.

Medical students' clinical performance of dealing with patients in the context of domestic violence.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to inquire about the clinical performance and determine the performance pattern of medical students in standardized patient (SP) based examinations of domestic violence (DV).

Methods: The clinical performance sores in DV station with SP of third-year (n=111, in 2014) and 4th-year (n=143, in 2016) medical students of five universities in the Busan-Gyeongnam Clinical Skills Examination Consortium were subjected in this study. The scenarios and checklists of DV cases were developed by the case development committee of the consortium.

Authenticity, acceptability, and feasibility of a hybrid gynecology station for the Papanicolaou test as part of a clinical skills examination in Korea.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the authenticity, acceptability, and feasibility of a hybrid station that combined a standardized patient encounter and a simulated Papanicolaou test.

Methods: We introduced a hybrid station in the routine clinical skills examination (CSE) for 335 third-year medical students at 4 universities in Korea from December 1 to December 3, 2014. After the tests, we conducted an anonymous survey on the authenticity, acceptability, and feasibility of the hybrid station.

Verbal communication of students with high patient-physician interaction scores in a clinical performance examination assessed by standardized patients.

Purpose: Standardized patients (SPs) tend to rate medical students' communication skills subjectively and comprehensively, in contrast to such objective skill set defined in the clinical performance examination (CPX). Meanwhile, medical school instructors have a different approach in their evaluation of students' communication skills. We aim to analyze medical students' verbal communication skills using objective methods, and to determine the contributing factors of a patient-physician interaction (PPI) score.

Research trends in studies of medical students' characteristics: a scoping review.

The purpose of this study is to investigate domestic and international research trends in studies of medical students' characteristics by using the scoping review methods. This study adopted the scoping review to assess papers on the characteristics of medical students. The procedure of research was carried out according to the five steps of the scoping review.

The effect of peer-group size on the delivery of feedback in basic life support refresher training: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Students are largely providing feedback to one another when instructor facilitates peer feedback rather than teaching in group training. The number of students in a group affect the learning of students in the group training. We aimed to investigate whether a larger group size increases students' test scores on a post-training test with peer feedback facilitated by instructor after video-guided basic life support (BLS) refresher training.

A pilot study on the evaluation of medical student documentation: assessment of SOAP notes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was evaluation of the current status of medical students' documentation of patient medical records.

Methods: We checked the completeness, appropriateness, and accuracy of 95 Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan (SOAP) notes documented by third-year medical students who participated in clinical skill tests on December 1, 2014. Students were required to complete the SOAP note within 15 minutes of an standard patient (SP)-encounter with a SP complaining rhinorrhea and warring about meningitis.

Assessing clinical reasoning abilities of medical students using clinical performance examination.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of new clinical performance examination (CPX) for assessing clinical reasoning skills and evaluating clinical reasoning ability of the students.

Methods: Third-year medical school students (n=313) in Busan-Gyeongnam consortium in 2014 were included in the study. One of 12 stations was developed to assess clinical reasoning abilities.

A Scoping Review: Communication Between Emergency Physicians and Patients in the Emergency Department.

Background: Understanding the basic qualities of communication between emergency physicians and patients could improve communication in the emergency department.

Objective: The objectives of this scoping review are to map the literature about the gaps in communication between emergency physicians and patients in the emergency department and make recommendations for further research.

Methods: A scoping review of literature published since 1980 and written in English was undertaken using the following databases: Pubmed, Scopus, and SocINDEX.

[Development of a portfolio for competency-based assessment in a clinical clerkship curriculum].

The purpose of this report was to describe our experience in planning and developing a portfolio for a clinical clerkship curriculum. We have developed a portfolio for assessing student competency since 2007. During an annual workshop on clinical clerkship curricula, clerkship directors from five Paik hospitals of Inje University met to improve the assessment of the portfolio.

[Development of guide to clinical performance and basic clinical skills for medical students].

The aim of this report was to discuss the development and content of a guide on clinical performance and basic clinical skills for medical students. We published the first edition of this guide in 2010 and will publish the second edition in 2016. Initially, we took a survey on important clinical presentations and fundamental clinical and technical skills in 41 medical schools in Korea.

The relationships between empathy, stress and social support among medical students.

Objective: To examine the relationship between stress, social support, and empathy among medical students.

Methods: We evaluated the relationships between stress and empathy, and social support and empathy among medical students. The respondents completed a questionnaire including demographic information, the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.

Medical students' agenda-setting abilities during medical interviews.

Purpose: Identifying patients' agendas is important; however, the extent of Korean medical students' agenda-setting abilities is unknown. The study aim was to investigate the patterns of Korean medical students' agenda solicitation.

Methods: A total of 94 third-year medical students participated.

Feasibility of implementing a surgical student internship program in South Korea.

Purpose: Despite recommendations for introducing student internships (SI) in undergraduate medical education in Korea, the feasibility of surgical SIs has not been demonstrated in the Korean context. We thus identified tasks that could be performed by surgical student interns in a Korean education hospital.

Methods: The opinions of surgery clerkship directors of medical schools nationwide, regarding the tasks, symptoms and signs, disease entities, and procedures that student interns could perform in their hospitals, were subjected to descriptive analysis.

Experience of clinical skills assessment in the Busan-Gyeongnam Consortium.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to judge the quality of clinical skills assessment in Busan-Gyeongnam Consortium.

Methods: Fourth grade medical school students (n=350 in 2012 and n=419 in 2013) in the Busan-Gyeongnam Consortium were included in the study. The examination was consisted of 6 clinical performance examination (CPX) and 6 objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) stations.

Development of Task-Based Learning Outcomes according to Clinical Presentations for Clinical Clerkships.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to introduce our experience of establish task-based learning outcomes for core clinical clerkships.

Methods: We first define our educational goal and objectives of the clinical clerkship curriculum according to knowledge, cognitive function and skill, and attitude. We selected clinical presentations and related diseases with expert panels and allocated them to core clinical departments.

Learning curve for a laparoscopic appendectomy by a surgical trainee.

Purpose: The laparoscopic appendectomy has been a basic part of the principal of a more complex laparoscopic technique for the surgical trainee. As the number of laparoscopic appendectomies performed by surgical trainees has increased, we are trying to check the stability of, which is controversial, and the learning curve associated with a laparoscopic appendectomy.

Methods: We studied the demographics, histologic diagnoses, operative time, the number of complicated cases, and hospital duration of one hundred and three patients who underwent an open appendectomy (group A, 53) or a laparoscopic appendectomy (group B, 50) retrospectively through a review of their medical records.

Effect of patient safety education in surgical clerkship to develop competencies for managing and preventing medical errors.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to define the necessity and effectiveness of patient safety education during surgical clerkship to develop competency for managing and preventing medical errors.

Methods: Fifty 3rd-year students participated in the patient safety education program during a 4-week surgical clerkship. The students were divided into 4 groups: control group, pretest-only group, education-only group, and pretest and education group.

Multiple mini-interview in selecting medical students.

Purpose: Selecting medical students through interviews seems difficult and the reliability of the results is one of the major concerns. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and acceptability of the Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) in selecting medical students of Kangwon National University.

Methods: Eighty-four applicants participated in the MMI which consists of 3 8-minute stations that have 9 checklist items and 3 global items.