Factors influencing the inclusion of diverse volunteer patients within medical student primary care placements.

Introduction: Research shows that medical students are graduating with inadequate teaching on diverse patients and insufficient experience of working with diverse patient groups. The inclusion of patients from diverse groups is necessary in healthcare teaching to ensure medical students are adequately prepared for practice. In this study, we explored the perspectives of General Practitioner (GP) tutors on the recruitment of diverse volunteer patients for medical student primary clinical care placements.

Online medical education using a Facebook peer-to-peer learning platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring learner and tutor acceptability of Facebook as a learning platform.

Background: In recent years, higher education institutions have been moving teaching online, accelerated by the pandemic. The Remote Learning Project (RLP), based at the Norwich Medical School (NMS) in the United Kingdom (U.K.

Medical Students' Views About Having Different Types of Problem-Based Learning Tutors.

Background: At Norwich Medical School, Year 3 or 4 medical students taking a year out of the 5-year undergraduate MBBS degree to do a master's degree in clinical education worked as near-peer problem-based learning (PBL) tutors for students in Year 2. Peer-assisted learning has been shown to benefit both peer tutors and tutees; in this study, experiences of students with near-peer PBL tutors were compared to students with other types of PBL tutor.

Methods: Using existing student evaluation data, we compared student views about PBL tutor performance, PBL group functioning, and overall satisfaction with PBL learning experience according to whether their PBL tutor/s were (1) a single near-peer tutor (later-year MB BS student), (2) a single staff tutor, (3) multiple staff tutors, or (4) multiple newly qualified doctor tutors.

Developing a new empathy-specific admissions test for applicants to medical schools: A discourse-pragmatic approach.

The ability to empathise with patients is an important professional skill for doctors. Medical students practise this skill as part of their medical education, and are tested on their use of empathy within their final examination. Evidence shows that appropriate training makes a difference but that natural aptitude also plays a role.

Your life in their pocket: students' behaviors regarding confidential patient information.

Background And Objectives: Physicians are sometimes poor at observing patient confidentiality. Medical students have access to patients and their medical records, but there is little known about how well students respect patients' confidentiality. Our objective was to study how medical students deal with confidential patient information.

Clinical exposure during clinical method attachments in general practice.

Background: There has been a significant decline in medical students' clinical experience in hospitals. Hospital-based teaching is struggling to provide medical students with sufficient experience of the common health problems of our industrialized ageing society. Hence, general practice has become an important locus for medical education.

Twelve tips for potential distance learners.

Distance learning courses are becoming popular among medical professionals due to their flexibility, allowing minimal disruption to personal and professional commitments. The ability to continue professional duties, allied to the reduced cost of distance learning courses, also makes them attractive to institutions looking to develop the skills of their staff. However the nature of distance learning courses means that they are often of long duration and many students fail to maintain motivation while working in isolation.