A scoping review of the impact of extreme weather events on health outcomes and healthcare utilization in rural and remote areas.

Background: Extreme weather events affect health by directly and indirectly increasing illness burdens and changing healthcare usage patterns. These effects can be especially severe in rural and remote areas, exacerbating existing health disparities, and necessitating urgent mitigation or adaptation strategies. Despite increased research on health and climate change, studies focusing on rural and remote populations remain limited.

Do the teaching, practice and assessment of clinical communication skills align?

Background: Evidence indicates that communication skills teaching learnt in the classroom are not often readily transferable to the assessment methods that are applied nor to the clinical environment. An observational study was conducted to objectively evaluate students' communication skills in different learning environments. The study sought to investigate the extent to which the communication skills demonstrated by students in classroom, clinical, and assessment settings align.

The impact of extreme heat on older regional and rural Australians: A systematic review.

Introduction: Extreme heat causes a major health burden, especially for older Australians.

Objective: To assess the impact of extreme heat on older regional and rural Australians, including clinical presentations, social implications, and health-seeking behaviours and adaptations.

Design: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Perceptions of medical students and their facilitators on clinical communication skills teaching, learning, and assessment.

Introduction: Despite various efforts to develop communication skills (CS) in the classroom, the transfer of these skills into clinical practice is not guaranteed. This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators of transferring CS from the classroom to clinical environments.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted at one Australian medical school to explore the experiences and perceptions of facilitators and students in relation to teaching and learning clinical CS.

Effects of climate-related risks and extreme events on health outcomes and health utilization of primary care in rural and remote areas: a scoping review.

Background: Rural populations are at risk of climate-related impacts due to ecological and geographical determinants, potentially leading to greater morbidity and health utilization. They are often highly dependent on primary care services. However, no rural- or primary care specific synthesis of these issues has ever been conducted.

Large-scale multi-site OSCEs for national competency examination of medical doctors in Indonesia.

Background: Implementing large-scale multi-site objective structured clinical examination (OSCEs) for national competency examination in a low resource country is challenging.

Aims: To describe the first national OSCE for national competency examination of medical doctors in Indonesia and evaluate the reliability, validity, feasibility, acceptability, and educational impact.

Methods: We collected electronically the OSCE scores from 49 out of 73 medical schools that participated to assess reliability and validity.