Effectiveness of a report writing training program using peer review: evidence from first- year medical students.

Background: Report writing in class provides basic training for academic writing. However, report writing education in medical schools in Japan has rarely been reported and no teaching strategy has been established for it.

Methods: This study developed a report writing program using peer review for first-year medical students consisting of two 120-minute classes.

Impact of group work on the hidden curriculum that induces students' unprofessional behavior toward faculty.

Background: Hidden curriculum (HC) can limit the effects of professionalism education. However, the research on how HC triggers unprofessional behavior among medical students is scant. Furthermore, there is no established approach for how faculty members may create a context, such as an educational environment and education system, that prevents students' unprofessional behavior.

Effect of a workplace-based learning program on clerkship students' behaviors and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine practice.

In clinical clerkship (CC), medical students can practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) with their assigned patients. Although CC can be a valuable opportunity for EBM education, the impact of EBM training, including long-term behavioral changes, remains unclear. One hundred and nine fourth- and fifth-year medical students undergoing CC at a medical school in Japan attended a workplace-based learning program for EBM during CC (WB-EBM), which included the practice of the five steps of EBM.

Breath Measurement Method for Synchronized Reproduction of Biological Tones in an Augmented Reality Auscultation Training System.

An educational augmented reality auscultation system (EARS) is proposed to enhance the reality of auscultation training using a simulated patient. The conventional EARS cannot accurately reproduce breath sounds according to the breathing of a simulated patient because the system instructs the breathing rhythm. In this study, we propose breath measurement methods that can be integrated into the chest piece of a stethoscope.

Developing Medical Education Curriculum Reform Strategies to Address the Impact of Generative AI: Qualitative Study.

Background: Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), represented by large language models, have the potential to transform health care and medical education. In particular, GAI's impact on higher education has the potential to change students' learning experience as well as faculty's teaching. However, concerns have been raised about ethical consideration and decreased reliability of the existing examinations.

The positive effect of student-oriented clinical clerkship rounds employing role-play and peer review on the clinical performance and professionalism of clerkship students.

Role-play (RP) and peer review (PR) are occasionally used in training and evaluating communication skills in clinical clerkship (CC). Thus, we evaluated the effect of combining RP and PR during student-oriented CC rounds. Clerkship students conducted medical interviews with and performed physical examinations on their patients, which were reviewed by five peer students who observed their performance while role-playing as senior physicians or patients' families.

Usefulness of a short training seminar on how to handle difficult patients in simulated education.

Objective: To evaluate a short-time simulation training seminar on how to handle difficult patients using professional simulated patients (SPs) such as actors.

Participants: Sixty-three second-year residents at Chiba University Hospital between 2015 and 2017 who only attended the seminar once.

Intervention: The participants were divided into small groups, each of which was assigned a supervisory doctor as facilitator.

Cardiovascular response during aquatic exercise in patients with osteoarthritis.

Objective: To assess the acute cardiovascular response to aquatic exercise in patients with osteoarthritis.

Design: Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were measured in 13 female patients with osteoarthritis (63.3 +/- 8.