Facilitating Seamless Integration of Game-based Assessments in Medical Education.

A health-care professional is expected to hone multiple skills that are not limited to possessing medical knowledge and clinical skills. Game-based assessments are an innovative type of assessment method that combines the features of gamification and simulation to revolutionize the delivery of medical education. These assessments have the potential to promote active engagement of students by ensuring sustained interest, which is not possible to accomplish with conventional assessments.

Integrating narrative assessments in medical education by overcoming the existing challenges.

Narrative assessments in medical education have a broad scope and they extend way beyond the boundaries and limitations of traditional grading methods. Acknowledging the merits of narrative assessments in the making of a complete healthcare professional, every institution should aim to structurally introduce these forms of qualitative assessments within their set-ups. Although narrative assessments offer multiple merits, we cannot ignore the presence of the challenges that are linked with them and there is an immense need to address these potential challenges, and we will essentially require thoughtful planning, regular training of teachers, and consistent efforts to refine the process of narrative assessments.

Ten Thousand Steps Per Day: To Follow Or Not? Is There Any Role of Technology?

Noncommunicable diseases are universal and are being reported across the world, with many diseases being gradually reported in early age groups. Physical activity has been encouraged and advocated by all medical practitioners to prevent, arrest, and delay the onset and development of complications associated with noncommunicable diseases. The concept of "Ten Thousand Steps" in a day is predominantly a goal that people aim to attain either by walking or indulging themselves in some form of moderate physical activity.

Strengthening COVID-19 Surveillance Using the Existing National Respiratory Surveillance Framework.

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global outbreak of coronavirus and has significantly changed the dynamics and framework of healthcare delivery system. Acknowledging the fact that the clinical manifestations of both influenza and COVID-19 are quite similar and both are respiratory pathogens, it will be ideal to use the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) for monitoring the community-level transmission in any nation. During the initial stages of pandemic itself, with the intention to strengthen the surveillance activities, it was recommended that all the nations should use the existing surveillance networks in the nation and employ them for the surveillance of COVID-19 cases.

Cultural Competency Training of Medical Students among Trauma Patients: Training and Assessment Strategies.

In the field of health care, cultural competency refers to the ability of healthcare professionals to acknowledge, respect, and accordingly respond to the varied needs, beliefs, values, and practices followed by persons and the communities they serve. The purpose of the current review is to explore the role of cultural factors and trauma experience, and identify the strategies that can be employed to train and assess medical students in cultural competency pertaining to trauma patients. An extensive search of all materials related to the topic was carried out on the PubMed and Google Scholar search engines and a total of 21 articles were selected based on their suitability with the current review objectives.

Exploring the Efficacy and Safety of Black Cohosh () in Menopausal Symptom Management.

Black cohosh () is a perennial plant used to treat menopause. This plant is known to have a serotonergic rather than estrogenic impact. It has been recommended to treat vasomotor symptoms associated with breast cancer patients.