Medical Professionalism Across Cultures: A Literature Review.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The review aims to identify the cultural perspectives of medical professionalism by identifying relevant literature from the Middle East, East/South Asia, and the Western world that discuss definitions.

Data repositories for medical education research: issues and recommendations.

The authors explore issues surrounding digital repositories with the twofold intention of clarifying their creation, structure, content, and use, and considering the implementation of a global digital repository for medical education research data sets-an online site where medical education researchers would be encouraged to deposit their data in order to facilitate the reuse and reanalysis of the data by other researchers. By motivating data sharing and reuse, investigators, medical schools, and other stakeholders might see substantial benefits to their own endeavors and to the progress of the field of medical education.The authors review digital repositories in medicine, social sciences, and education, describe the contents and scope of repositories, and present extant examples.

Impact of student reflective e-portfolio on medical student advisors.

Background: Little is published about the role of faculty advisors and use of students' e-portfolios.

Purpose: This article reports advisors' observations and understanding about 1st-year students based on information from students' journaling as part of an e-portfolio.

Methods: Data were collected on Blackboard survey module for 8 volunteer advisors at two medical school campuses.

Developing an institution-based assessment of resident communication and interpersonal skills.

Purpose: The authors describe the development and validation of an institution-wide, cross-specialty assessment of residents' communication and interpersonal skills, including related components of patient care and professionalism.

Method: Residency program faculty, the department of medical education, and the Clinical Performance Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine collaborated to develop six standardized patient-based clinical simulations. The standardized patients rated the residents' performance.