Exploring medical students' perceptions of individual and group-based clinical reasoning with virtual patients: a qualitative study.

Background: Virtual Patients are computer-based simulations used to teach and evaluate patient interviews, medical diagnoses, and treatment of medical conditions. It helps develop clinical reasoning skills, especially in undergraduate medical education. This study aimed to and investigate the medical students' perceptions of individual and group-based clinical reasoning and decision-making processes by using Virtual Patients.

A study on the standard setting, validity, and reliability of a standardized patient performance rating scale - student version.

Introduction: The quality of the performances of standardized patients plays a significant role in the effectiveness of clinical skills education. Therefore, providing standardized patients with constant feedback is essential. It is especially important to get students' perspectives immediately following their encounters with standardized patients.

Profiling students via clustering in a flipped clinical skills course using learning analytics.

Flipped classrooms have become popular as a student-centered approach in medical education because they allow students to improve higher-order thinking skills and problem-solving applications during in-class activities. However, students are expected to study videos and other class materials before class begins. Learning analytics and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (clustering) can be used to examine the pre-class activities of these students to identify inadequate student preparation before the in-class stage and make appropriate interventions.

Adaptation of a short and universal learning self-efficacy scale for clinical skills in Turkish.

Background: The performance of a clinical task depends on an individual's skills, knowledge, and beliefs. However, there is no reliable and valid tool for measuring self-efficacy beliefs toward clinical skills in the Turkish language. This research work aims to study the linguistic equivalence, validity, and reliability of a Self-Efficacy Scale for Clinical Skills (L-SES).

Assessment preferences of nursing and medical students: A correlational research.

Aim: The study aims to determine nursing and medical students' preferences for assessment in education and factors affecting their preferences for assessment.

Background: It is crucial to design the evaluation and evaluation processes in education to develop desired behaviours in education and to determine whether the intended goals in education have been achieved. In earlier studies on assessment practices affecting student learning and academic achievement, it has been emphasized that students' preferences for assessment and different practices in assessment have a significant effect on their academic performance.

Attachment Style Predicts Cortical Activity in Temporoparietal Junction (TPJ): An fNIRS Study Using a Theory of Mind (ToM) Task in Healthy University Students.

Results of the behavioral studies suggest that attachment styles may have an enduring effect upon theory of mind (ToM). However biological underpinnings of this relationship are unclear. Here, we compared securely and insecurely attached first grade university students ( = 56) in terms of cortical activity measured by 52 channel Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) during the Reading the Mind from the Eyes Test (RMET).

Exploring the Role of Social Anhedonia in the Positive and Negative Dimensions of Schizotypy in a Non-Clinical Sample.

Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the role of social anhedonia, defined as the lack of ability to feel pleasure from interpersonal relationship, in a multidimensional model of schizotypy and to determine the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Chapman's Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (SAS) in a non-clinical sample.

Methods: Second-grade students of Ankara University Medical Faculty were recruited (n=266, Mage=20.28).

Fighting against cigarette smoking among medical students: a success story.

A survey in the year 2007 among medical students of Ankara University Medical School to assess the smoking rates showed that 25.1 % of them were smoking. Moreover, the smoking rate was 35 % at sixth grade students and 60 % of the smokers specified that they started smoking at medical school.

Self-reported prevalence of hypersensitivity reactions against drugs among medical students: does awareness cause any difference?

Purpose: True epidemiologic data on hypersensitivity reactions to drugs are scarce. More accurate data may be obtained in more specific clinical settings. Considering their educational background, medical students may be an appropriate target audience for evaluating prevalence of drug hypersensitivity.