Publications by authors named "Maria C Rodriguez-Diez"
Article Synopsis
- The MIR exam, essential for specialty selection in Spain, consists of 235 multiple-choice questions, and a study aimed to assess the quality of these questions from 2009 to 2013.
- An analysis of 1,143 questions showed an increase in clinical vignettes and image-related items, while the percentage of questions with technical flaws remained high, though some specific issues decreased over time.
- Despite improvements in certain areas, challenges like non-plausible answer options and irrelevant difficulties persist in the exam questions.
Introduction: Simulation enables medical students to practice clinical skills in a safe environment. Graduates in medicine must be able to correctly perform an examination on a pregnant woman using Leopold maneuvers. Learning curves-cumulative summation (LC-CUSUM) may help determine when the student has achieved a specific skill.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: We prospectively assessed the association between adherence to several a priori defined healthy food patterns and risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS).
Methods: We assessed 6851 participants of a Spanish dynamic prospective cohort of university graduates, initially free of any MetS-specific definition criteria, and followed-up for a median of 8.3 years.