[Structured chest X-ray imaging training with OSCE examination : Results of a feasibility study and follow-up survey].

Background: The structured diagnosis of chest radiographs is an important basic competence in radiology and will be required in the student teaching with the implementation of the National Competency-Based Learning Catalog Medicine (NKLM) in Germany.

Aim: The aim was to evaluate the extent to which second-year students gain confidence in the diagnosis of chest radiographs through a new curricular training for the diagnosis of chest radiographs with subsequent objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and how confident they feel about meeting the expectations of the supervising medical colleagues during the clinical clerkship.

Methods: The training included four lectures and ten commented instructional films on the diagnosis of radiographs.

The development of the internal medicine courses at Hannover Medical School from 2001 to 2018.

The subject-based model curriculum at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) is characterized by two major features: early and continuous contact with patients and the interconnection of theoretical and clinical content. The progressive adaptations to the internal medicine curriculum which is taught longitudinally over five years are presented. Looking back on 17 years of experience with our model curriculum and the events leading to its inception, we summarize the challenges and subsequent modifications to the longitudinal internal medicine curriculum.

Various Cinematic Forms of Educational Videos About the Physical Examination - Are There Differences in the Evaluation by Medical Students?

To improve medical students' competences in physical examination videos clips were created, with and without an explaining commentary. The uncommented videos show the communication and interaction between physician and patient during a physical examination, the commented videos show the single steps of the physical examination supplemented with an off-screen commentary emphasizing important facts. To investigate whether uncommented and more authentic videos are more helpful to practice a physical examination than commented videos we interviewed 133 students via online surveys.

Frequency of AIP gene mutations in young patients with acromegaly: a registry-based study.

Context: Familial and sporadic GH-secreting pituitary adenomas are associated with mutations in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein (AIP) gene. Patients with an AIP mutation (AIPmut) tend to have more aggressive tumors occurring at a younger age.

Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate the frequency of AIPmut in patients diagnosed at 30 years of age or younger.

Grading of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma using late phase of contrast enhanced sonography - a prospective study.

Background: Outcome of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma is influenced by their histological grade. Invasive biopsy of the lesions is the gold standard in this regard.

Aims: We therefore analysed the diagnostic accuracy of contrast enhanced ultrasound for non-invasive grading of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma in liver cirrhosis.