Medical Students' Self-Perceptions of Harassment During Clinical Placement.

Objectives: Exploring workplace dynamics during clinical placement is crucial to determine whether medical students are encountering safe and meaningful learning experiences. The aim of this original article is to describe medical students' reported harassment experiences whilst on clinical placement.

Design: Medical students in years 4 to 6 were invited to participate in the survey.

Interprofessional Learning in Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams Is Associated With Reduced Patient Mortality: A Quantitative Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: The aim of the study is to identify quantitative evidence for the efficacy of interprofessional learning (IPL) to improve patient outcomes.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative patient outcomes after IPL in multidisciplinary healthcare teams reported in the Medline, Scopus, PsycInfo, Embase, and CINAHL databases.

Results: In 2022, we screened 15,248 reports to include 20 and extracted rates of mortality and primary outcomes in conventional care groups and intervention groups (involving initiatives to promote IPL in multidisciplinary teams).

Desire paths for workplace assessment in postgraduate anaesthesia training: analysing informal processes to inform assessment redesign.

Background: In postgraduate specialist training, workplace assessments are expected to provide the information required for decisions on trainee progression. Research suggests that meeting this expectation can be difficult in practice, which has led to the development of informal processes, or 'shadow systems' of assessment. Rather than rejecting these informal approaches to workplace assessment, we propose borrowing from sociology the concept of 'desire paths' to legitimise and strengthen these well-trodden approaches.

Medical Students' Quality of Life and Its Association with Harassment and Social Support.

Objectives: To explore the associations between self-reported quality of life (QoL) and harassment and the potential moderating effect of social support.

Design: Senior medical students were invited to participate in a survey consisting of a background section, the World Health Organisation QoL questionnaire (New Zealand version), a version of the generalised workplace harassment questionnaire, and the multidimensional scale of perceived social support. A series of multivariate statistical analyses were conducted.

Key dimensions of innovations in workplace-based assessment for postgraduate medical education: a scoping review.

Background: Specialist training bodies continue to devise innovative methods of gathering information on trainee workplace performance to meet the requirements of competency-based medical education. We reviewed recent innovations in workplace-based assessment (WBA) tools to identify strengths, weaknesses, and trade-offs inherent in their design and use.

Methods: In this scoping review, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we systematically searched databases between 2009 and 2019 for WBA tools with novel characteristics not typically seen in traditional WBAs.

Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands.

The varied islands of the Pacific provide an ideal natural experiment for studying the factors shaping human impact on the environment. Previous research into pre-European deforestation across the Pacific indicated a major effect of environment but did not account for cultural variation or control for dependencies in the data due to shared cultural ancestry and geographic proximity. The relative importance of environment and culture on Pacific deforestation and forest replacement and the extent to which environmental impact is constrained by cultural ancestry therefore remain unexplored.