A student-led clerkship primer: a near-peer orientation to clerkship.

The transition between pre-clerkship and clerkship can be difficult for medical students. Near-peer teaching may fill knowledge gaps within curricular clerkship orientation, leveraging recent, relatable, and up-to-date experiences from near-peers. These benefits have not been formally evaluated in the context of a clerkship orientation.

Towards a better understanding of medical students' mentorship needs: a self-determination theory perspective.

Introduction: Mentorship programs are ubiquitous in medical education. However, few emphasize equal development for learners and mentors, or incorporate clinical skills, which may be important for promoting medical students' self-determination. Central to this consideration are the three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, described by Self-Determination Theory (SDT).

Diffusing the bilingual lexicon: Task-based and lexical components of language switch costs.

Bilingual speakers show a response time (RT) cost when switching between languages. These costs could reflect the organization of language in a shared bilingual lexicon (Grainger, Midgley, & Holcomb, 2010) or a domain general cognitive processing cost (Green & Abutalebi, 2013). To test these accounts, we analysed RT distributions of bilingual (Spanish-English) performance on generalized lexical decision (GLD) tasks using Ratcliff (1978) diffusion model.

Word and pseudoword superiority effects on letter position processing in developing and skilled readers.

Studies have shown that letter position processing changes as reading develops. Whether these changes are driven by the development of the orthographic lexicon is currently unclear. In this study, we administered a novel variant of the Reicher-Wheeler task to children aged 7-12 years (Experiment 1) and adults (Experiment 2) to clarify the role of the developing lexicon in letter position processing.

Disentangling the developmental trajectories of letter position and letter identity coding using masked priming.

Masked transposed-letter (TL) priming effects have been used to index letter position processing over the course of reading development. Whereas some studies have reported an increase in TL priming over development, others have reported a decrease. These findings have led to the development of 2 somewhat contradictory accounts of letter position development: the lexical tuning hypothesis and the multiple-route model.

The locus of impairment in English developmental letter position dyslexia.

Many children with reading difficulties display phonological deficits and struggle to acquire non-lexical reading skills. However, not all children with reading difficulties have these problems, such as children with selective letter position dyslexia (LPD), who make excessive migration errors (such as reading slime as "smile"). Previous research has explored three possible loci for the deficit - the phonological output buffer, the orthographic input lexicon, and the orthographic-visual analysis stage of reading.

A behavioral database for masked form priming.

Reading involves a process of matching an orthographic input with stored representations in lexical memory. The masked priming paradigm has become a standard tool for investigating this process. Use of existing results from this paradigm can be limited by the precision of the data and the need for cross-experiment comparisons that lack normal experimental controls.

Student perceptions of the care of children: impacts of pre-clerkship pediatric and primary care clinical teaching.

Background: Pediatric clinical skills teaching sessions provide an early opportunity for students to be exposed to the medical care of children. This report describes second and third year medical students' perceptions of and attitudes towards working with children before and after the pediatric clinical skills teaching sessions, and the experiences of those students precepted by pediatricians only compared to those students working with a combination of pediatricians and family physicians.

Method: A 13 question survey was voluntarily completed before and after teaching sessions.

Implementing an evidence-informed faculty development program.

Objective: To establish an evidence-informed faculty development program.

Design: Survey derived from a needs-assessment tool.

Setting: Department of Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, which is geographically dispersed across the province.

The longitudinal elderly person shadowing program: outcomes from an interprofessional senior partner mentoring program.

The University of Saskatchewan's Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing (LEPS) is an interprofessional senior mentors program (SMP) where teams of undergraduate students in their first year of medicine, pharmacy, and physiotherapy; 2nd year of nutrition; 3rd year nursing; and 4th year social work partner with community-dwelling older adults. Existing literature on SMPs provides little information on the sustainability of attitudinal changes toward older adults or changes in interprofessional attitudes. LEPS students completed Polizzi's Aging Semantic Differential and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale.

Hearing voices inside and outside the head: spatial source monitoring in participants prone to auditory hallucinations.

Introduction: Previous studies of source monitoring and auditory hallucinations (AH) have often conflated spatial source (internal-external) with source agency (self-other). Other studies have used suboptimal manipulations of auditory space (e.g.

Source monitoring and proneness to auditory-verbal hallucinations: a signal detection analysis.

Introduction: It has been suggested that a bias to misattribute self-generated thoughts to a nonself source underlies the experience of auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH). We tested this hypothesis with healthy participants prone or not prone to AVH.

Method: Participants (N=133) were presented with 96 words for subsequent recognition (half positively, half negatively valenced).

Cultivating interest in family medicine: family medicine interest group reaches undergraduate medical students.

Problem Addressed: Fewer medical students are choosing careers in family medicine across Canada. One way to cultivate student interest is through creation of family medicine interest groups. Students, residents, community-based family physicians, and academic faculty can all contribute to the success of such groups.

Understandings of health and its determinants among clients and providers at an urban community health center.

The authors' aim was to explore clients' and health care providers' perceptions of health and its determinants in preparation for the development of a screening tool to assess client health determinants at a community health center through template and editing analyses of interviews with 6 health care providers and 7 clients. Participants defined health as a multidimensional state, with common themes including the ability to cope and to function according to expectations. They identified multiple interrelated factors that affect health.