Examining the perception of undergraduate health professional students of their learning environment, learning experience and professional identity development: a mixed-methods study.

Background: The quality of the learning environment significantly impacts student engagement and professional identity formation in health professions education. Despite global recognition of its importance, research on student perceptions of learning environments across different health education programs is scarce. This study aimed to explore how health professional students perceive their learning environment and its influence on their professional identity development.

Tools for measuring curriculum integration in health professions' education: a systematic review.

Background: Curriculum integration is an important educational concept widely implemented by various educational institutions, particularly within the healthcare field. Its significance lies in enhancing the preparation of future healthcare professionals. The assessment of these integrated curricula is imperative to guarantee their effectiveness.

Morphology of Anterolateral Ligament of the Knee: A Cadaveric Observation with Clinical Insight.

. The morphology and function of anterolateral ligament (ALL) of the knee are not clearly understood even today with all the sophisticated techniques available. There have been differing descriptions of the ALL of the knee in literature, and not all of them have been named or described clearly.

Lecturing skills as predictors of tutoring skills in a problem-based medical curriculum.

Purpose: Recruitment of tutors to work in problem-based learning (PBL) programs is challenging, especially in that most of them are graduated from discipline-based programs. Therefore, this study aims at examining whether lecturing skills of faculty could predict their PBL tutoring skills.

Methods: This study included evaluation of faculty (n=69) who participated in both tutoring and lecturing within particular PBL units at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (CMMS), Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain.

The prevalence of absence of the palmaris longus muscle in the Bahraini population.

Absence of the palmaris longus muscle has been well documented in several populations at a prevalence rate ranging between 2.2 and 63.9% which varies according to race, sex, and side of the body.

Deep fascia on the dorsum of the ankle and foot: extensor retinacula revisited.

This study revisits the anatomy of the deep fascia over the distal leg, ankle, and dorsum of the foot. The arrangement of the deep fascia in these regions was recorded in 14 lower limbs of adult cadavers using photographs and drawings. The fascial layer from all three sites was subsequently removed in toto, and serial thickness measurements were made along its entire length.

Population variation in the incidence of the medial (hamate) facet of the carpal bone lunate.

Studies on the wrist joint have shown two types of the carpal bone lunate. In type II lunate there is a facet on the medial side of the lunate for articulation with the proximal pole of the hamate; such a facet is absent in type I lunate. Type II lunates have different kinematics, are more prone to clinically relevant degenerative changes in the hamato-lunate joint and are an uncommon cause of ulnar-sided wrist pain.

Attitudes and reactions of Jordanian medical students to the dissecting room.

Emotional and psychological reactions of Jordanian medical students to the dissecting room (DR) were assessed. A questionnaire was distributed to 200 students in preclinical years in the academic year 2002-2003 in the faculty of medicine at Jordan University of Science and Technology; 145 students have responded. Varying degree of fear on first entering the DR was reported by 28.

Student-led tutorials in problem-based learning: educational outcomes and students' perceptions.

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using students as tutors in a problem-based learning (PBL) medical curriculum. Ninety-one third-year medical students were divided into ten tutorial groups. The groups were randomly allocated into student-led tutorials (SLT) (five groups, n = 44 students) and faculty-led tutorials (FLT) (five groups, n = 47 students).

Hyperhomocysteinemia in pregnant rats: effects on arterial pressure, kidneys and fetal growth.

Objective: This study aimed to test the hypothesis that hyperhomocysteinemia plays a role in the development of pathological changes similar to human preeclampsia in pregnant rats.

Study Design: Arterial pressure and 24-h urinary excretion of proteins and electrolytes were measured during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum periods in control (n = 12) and methionine-treated (2.0 g/kg/day, n = 11) Sprague-Dawley rats.

Three-headed biceps brachii muscle associated with duplicated musculocutaneous nerve.

A unilateral three-headed biceps brachii muscle coinciding with an unusual variant of the musculocutaneous nerve was found during routine dissection of a 79-year-old male cadaver. The supernumerary bicipital head originated from the antero-medial surface of the humerus just beyond the insertion of the coracobrachialis, and inserted into the conjoined tendon of biceps brachii. Associated with this muscular variant was a duplicated musculocutaneous nerve.

Bilateral absence of ansa cervicalis replaced by vagocervical plexus: case report and literature review.

The bilateral absence of the ansa cervicalis was discovered during dissection of the neck in an elderly male cadaver. On both sides it was replaced by a vagocervical plexus formed by the vagus nerve and C1 and C2 ventral rami from the cervical plexus. A descending branch from this vagocervical plexus supplied the strap muscles of the neck.

Assessment of anatomy in a problem-based medical curriculum.

In the problem-based learning (PBL) approach to medical education, students are expected to be trained more by applying processes of reasoning than by memorization of facts. In a PBL curriculum, as with others, it is necessary to match the assessment to the learning process. A detailed description of the testing of anatomical teaching-learning outcomes at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) is presented.

Structured problem-related anatomy demonstrations: making order of random teaching events.

Background: A standardized learning activity called "Structured Problem-Related Anatomy Demonstrations" was recently implemented. This activity is intended to be a substitute to the need-based instruction method in which students schedule appointments in small groups or individually with faculty to discuss issues and difficulties related to anatomy the students have encountered during their tutorial discussions and self-study learning.

Description: Students in a given year were divided into 2 groups.

Evaluation of the teaching strategy of cardiovascular system in a problem-based curriculum: student perception.

It is generally acknowledged that an integrated approach to teaching cardiovascular system (CVS) is clinically relevant. However, very little attention has been paid with respect to student perception of teaching CVS in an integrated problem-based curriculum. A questionnaire on the feedback and perception of medical students (n = 60) to their learning experience of CVS exposed early in the problem-based integrated curriculum at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) was used.