Meaningful Patient Participation in Health Care Education: A Theoretically Informed Study Exploring Boundaries and Identities.

Purpose: After recent policy and practice changes, health care schools are expected to involve patients as partners in the management, design, and delivery of professional curricula. However, what these partnerships mean for academic communities and the processes needed to support them are not yet understood. This study examines what involving patients as partners within an academic community means for key stakeholders.

Is it worth it? A comparison study of medical students' aspirations for gaining the Health Care Certificate following employment as Healthcare Assistants.

Background: Medical students seek early patient contact but their curriculum starts with scientific knowledge. We integrated the Healthcare Assistant (HCA) course into semester one for early patient-facing clinical contact. This study compares students' aspirations for this learning with the realities of employed work as HCAs.

Reflecting on the Spectrum of Involvement: How do we involve patients as partners in education?

Background: The Spectrum of Involvement describes six levels of active patient involvement in healthcare education. Only at the highest levels are patients described as 'equal partners'. Although this framework was never intended to be hierarchical, healthcare educators continue to strive towards aspirations for involving patients as 'equal partners' in education.

Raising professionalism concerns as a medical student: damned if they do, damned if they don't?

Background: Understanding professionalism is an essential component of becoming a doctor in order to ensure the trust of patients and wider society. Integrally linked to the concept of professionalism is the importance of identifying and raising concerns to ensure high quality, safe patient care. It is recognised that medical students are uniquely placed to identify and report concerns given their frequent rotations through multiple clinical placements and their peer relationships and, in so doing, develop and enact their own medical professionalism.

Towards an empathic hidden curriculum in medical school: A roadmap.

The "hidden curriculum" in medical school includes a stressful work environment, un-empathic role models, and prioritisation of biomedical knowledge. It can provoke anxiety and cause medical students to adapt by becoming cynical, distanced and less empathic. Lower empathy, in turn, has been shown to harm patients as well as practitioners.

'It's a gamble': A phenomenological exploration of medical students' learning experiences as newcomers to clinical communities of practice.

Background: Medical students become members of the clinical team through participation in their activities, as described by Lave and Wenger's situated learning theory. While there is research into how medical students cognitively engage in clinical learning, there is limited work on clinical experiences using a social theoretical lens such as situated learning theory.

Method: This study explored third year medical students' lived experience as newcomers to clinical teams using a qualitative phenomenological approach.

How well do UK assistantships equip medical students for graduate practice? Think EPAs.

The goal of better medical student preparation for clinical practice drives curricular initiatives worldwide. Learning theory underpins Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) as a means of safe transition to independent practice. Regulators mandate senior assistantships to improve practice readiness.

A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education.

Patient involvement in health and social care education lacks theoretical underpinning, despite increasing calls for rigour. Theories help explain how learning is advanced and offer guidance for how faculty work with patients who become involved in curriculum delivery. We conducted a systematic review to synthesise how theory shapes our understanding of patient involvement in health and social care education.

The MAPS: Toward a Novel Mobility Assistance System for Visually Impaired People.

This paper introduces the design of a novel indoor and outdoor mobility assistance system for visually impaired people. This system is named the MAPS (Mobility Assistance Path Planning and orientation in Space), and it is based on the theoretical frameworks of mobility and spatial cognition. Its originality comes from the assistance of two main functions of navigation: locomotion and wayfinding.

An algorithm to assist novices with electrocardiogram interpretation: Validation with the Delphi Method.

Purpose: Electrocardiograms (ECG) are often poorly interpreted by novices and this can delay time-sensitive, critical intervention. This study aimed to assess, improve and validate a stepwise ECG algorithm designed to assist with ECG interpretation by novices by soliciting the opinions of an international cohort of expert cardiologists.

Methods: The Delphi Method was used, and an online questionnaire was sent to an international panel of cardiologists.