How to Teach Clinical Reasoning in the Context of Rare Diseases in Undergraduate Medical Education.

While rare diseases are individually rare, they are collectively common. Physicians are likely to see patients presenting with rare diseases during their medical practice. Despite the fact that rare diseases present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, they are not sufficiently addressed by undergraduate medical curricula.

Prevalence of detransition in persons seeking gender-affirming hormonal treatments: a systematic review.

Background: Despite recent evidence of the benefits of gender-affirming medical procedures, data in the literature indicate emerging demands of detransition and regrets while suggesting potential sources of bias in different datasets, including a nonconsensual definition of detransition.

Aim: The present systematic review aims to summarize the existing research regarding the prevalence of detransition in transgender persons who requested or started receiving gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) and/or gender-affirming hormonal therapy (GAHT).

Methods: A systematic literature search (CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Sage Journals, Science Direct, Scopus) for quantitative studies was conducted up to May 2024.

Team-based learning (TBL) curriculum combined with video vignettes improves performance of undergraduate medical students on OSCE compared with TBL alone.

Background: Clinical practitioners think of frequent causes of diseases first rather than expending resources searching for rare conditions. However, it is important to continue investigating when all common illnesses have been discarded. Undergraduate medical students must acquire skills to listen and ask relevant questions when seeking a potential diagnosis.

Influential factors on the echogenicity of peripheral venous catheters: Insights from an experimental phantom study.

Introduction: Ultrasound-guided placement of peripheral venous catheters requires appropriate equipment. Among the devices used, peripheral venous catheters have different structure and properties. This study aimed to define the impact of these different factors on the echogenicity of peripheral venous catheters.

[Using simulation for assessment: the example of OSCE in medical students].

Training of health sciences students is based on the acquisition of clinical skills. Tools assessing the application of theoretical knowledge through written examinations or the tools evaluating student's performance at patient bedsides are characterized by a low reliability. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was developed to address the lack of reliability and standardization of traditional forms of the assessment of clinical performance.

User-centered approach in the development of an eHealth tool for self-management skills in functional insulin therapy to prevent complications of diabetes.

One of the biggest tasks for health professionals is to address the needs of persons with chronic illnesses like type 1 diabetes (T1D) and to support the acquisition of all necessary self-management behaviors. Functional insulin therapy (FIT) enables patients to adapt insulin doses according to everyday situations and reduces the risk of complications of diabetes. The aim was to describe the co-development, with patient as partners, of an eHealth tool for the acquisition of skills in FIT, to evaluate the user's acceptability and learning effectiveness on a sample of T1D patients followed in the University Hospital of Nancy.

e-Health Literacy Skills in People with Chronic Diseases and What Do the Measurements Tell Us: A Scoping Review.

Use of electronic health (e-Health) technologies has increased in the past decade and inadequate e-Health literacy may lead to health-related social inequality. This is especially true for patients living with chronic diseases who are often involved in self-care. However, the measurement of e-Health literacy represents several challenges.

Tutor-Student Partnership in Practice OSCE to Enhance Medical Education.

Background: Training of examiners is essential to ensure the quality of objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). We aimed to study a perceived effectiveness of tutor-student partnership in a practice OSCE module by novice OSCE tutors and medical students.

Method: We implemented a practice OSCE at a medical faculty in France with novice tutors and third year medical students as partners.