Twelve tips for strengthening global equity in health professions education publication.

Despite recent calls to engage in scholarship with attention to anti-racism, equity, and social justice at a global level in Health Professions Education (HPE), the field has made few significant advances in incorporating the views of the so-called "Other" in understanding the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge as well as the epistemic justification of knowledge production. Editors, authors, and reviewers must take responsibility for questioning existing systems and structures, specifically about how they diffuse the knowledge of a few and silence the knowledge of many. This article presents 12 recommendations proposed by (GSCAC), a group of HPE professionals, representing countries in the Global South, to help the Global North enact practical changes to become more inclusive and engage in authentic and representative work in HPE publishing.

"How is social media used for learning?": relationships between social media use by medical students with their self-regulated learning skills.

Background: Social media is widely used by medical students, including for learning purposes since it facilitates their involvement in the communities of inquiry where they can share, express, and engage in the development of knowledge. Navigating the use of social media requires self-regulated learning (SRL) skills. Hence, studies on the relationships between social media use and SRL skills are necessary.

Exploring challenges and mitigation strategies towards practicing Teledentistry.

Background: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many dentists have opted for Teledentistry as a mechanism for patient consultation, oral lesion evaluation, diagnosis, and monitoring. The current study explores the challenges faced and potential solutions proposed by dentists practicing Teledentistry in a developing country like Pakistan.

Methods: A qualitative case study was carried out from January to December 2021.

What do Turkish, Spanish, and Pakistani medical students value in specialty training positions? A discrete choice experiment.

Background: The aim of this study was to find out specialty training preferences of senior medical students from three medical schools in Turkey, Spain, and Pakistan.

Methods: A Discrete Choice Experiment was carried out using an electronic form for students in three countries in 2021-2022 term. Each choice set in the form consisted of two hypothetical specialty training positions.

A guide to best practice in faculty development for health professions schools: a qualitative analysis.

Background: This is a practice guide for the evaluation tool specifically created to objectively evaluate longitudinal faculty development programs (FDP) using the "5×2 -D backward planning faculty development model". It was necessary to create this tool as existing evaluation methods are designed to evaluate linear faculty development models with a specific endpoint. This backward planning approach is a cyclical model without an endpoint, consisting of 5 dynamic steps that are flexible and interchangeable, therefore can be a base for an evaluation tool that is objective and takes into account all the domains of the FDP in contrast to the existing, traditional, linear evaluation tools which focus on individual aspects of the program.

Relationship of surfactant protein-D with random blood glucose and extra pulmonary infections in type-2 diabetes mellitus.

Objectives: To compare surfactant protein-D levels in type 2 diabetics and non-diabetics, and to explore its link with random blood glucose and extra-pulmonary infections.

Methods: The case-control study was conducted in 2012-13 at the Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and comprised diabetic cases and non-diabetic controls. Extra pulmonary infections, body mass index and random blood glucose levels were noted and serum surfactant protein-D was analysed using enzynme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Twelve tips to enhance student engagement in synchronous online teaching and learning.

Synchronous learning is a component of online learning for engaging students in real-time. It is the nearest we can get to a live feeling in the e-environment. These sessions must be designed in a way to keep students continuously involved.

Emotional Intelligence: A predictor of undergraduate student's academic achievement in altered living conditions.

Objective: To compare the impact of trait emotional intelligence between students of different faculties and associated factors.

Methods: The cross-sectional analytical study was conducted from August 2016 to March 2017 at the University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and comprised undergraduate students, both boarders and day scholars, from seven different faculties. Data was collected using the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire-short form.

Gastric Carcinoma: Recent Trends in Diagnostic Biomarkers and Molecular Targeted Therapies.

Gastric cancer is generally associated with poor survival rates and accounts for a remarkable proportion of global cancer mortality. The prevalence of gastric carcinoma varies in different regions of world and across teh various ethnic groups. On the basis of pathological assessment, gastric cancer can be categorized as intestinal and diffuse carcinomas.

Association of passive smoking with respiratory symptoms and clinical correlates, among married women, in a rural community in Islamabad.

Objective: To investigate the association of passive smoking with respiratory symptoms and clinical correlates in married women in a rural area of Pakistan.

Method: A Cross-sectional study was carried out on married women of Nurpur Shahan (rural Islamabad) by means of an Interviewer administered questionnaire. Systematic sampling of households was done.