Factors affecting medical students' satisfaction with online learning: a regression analysis of a survey.

Background: Medical education requires the implementation of different teaching methods and strategies for future doctors to achieve broad learning objectives. This wide range of methods and strategies includes the use of Information Technologies. For a long time, there was a call for a change in medical education for blending new teaching approaches to lessen medical students' class time.

Formal evidence-based medicine instruction in Turkish undergraduate medical education: an initial evaluation.

Background: Global and national undergraduate medical education accreditation organizations recommend the inclusion of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) instructions into the medical schools' curricula. Accordingly, some Turkish medical schools have individually developed and implemented EBM training programs, but there is no data of current programs' effectiveness and students' learning achievements due to the lack of a validated Turkish language EBM assessment tool. This study evaluates the effect of a newly introduced formal EBM instruction to the curriculum on students' knowledge and skills by using the recently published Turkish adaptation of the Fresno Test.

Perioperative Normal Saline Administration and Delayed Graft Function in Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Perioperative normal saline administration remains common practice during kidney transplantation. The authors hypothesized that the proportion of balanced crystalloids versus normal saline administered during the perioperative period would be associated with the likelihood of delayed graft function.

Methods: The authors linked outcome data from a national transplant registry with institutional anesthesia records from 2005 to 2015.

Correction: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test for Turkish language.

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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test for Turkish language.

Objective: National and international medical organizations and boards have recognized the importance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and emphasized that EBM training should be included in medical education programs. Although some Turkish medical schools have developed and implemented EBM training programs, no validated Turkish language assessment tool has been available to compare the effectiveness of these training programs to national or international standards. The aim of this study is to cross-culturally adapt the Fresno Test, which is a validated English language tool utilized worldwide in the assessment of EBM training.