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Since healthcare faces challenges of access, quality, and cost, effective leadership for healthcare is needed. This need is especially acute among physicians, whose demanding training focuses on scientific and clinical skills, eclipsing attention to leadership development. Among the competencies needed by leaders, emotional intelligence (EI) - defined as the ability to understand and manage oneself and to understand others and manage relationships - has been shown to differentiate between great and average leaders. ⋯ For example, teamwork training is needed early in undergraduate medical curricula to prompt collaborative learning. Teamwork training is also needed during residency, when physicians participate with differing roles on patient care teams. Training in EI should also extend beyond graduate medical training to confer the skills needed by clinicians and by faculty in academic medical centers.
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Comparative effectiveness of instructional design features in simulation-based education: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Although technology-enhanced simulation is increasingly used in health professions education, features of effective simulation-based instructional design remain uncertain. ⋯ These results confirm quantitatively the effectiveness of several instructional design features in simulation-based education.
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Twitter is an online social networking service, accessible from any Internet-capable device. While other social networking sites are online confessionals or portfolios of personal current events, Twitter is designed and used as a vehicle to converse and share ideas. For this reason, we believe that Twitter may be the most likely candidate for integrating social networking with medical education. ⋯ Twitter is a relatively new social medium, and its use in higher education is in its infancy. With further research and thoughtful application of media literacy, Twitter is likely to become a useful adjunct for more personalized teaching and learning in medical education.
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Health professional schools are responsible for producing graduates with competencies and attitudes to address health inequities and respond to priority health needs. Health professional schools striving towards social accountability founded the Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet). ⋯ THEnet evaluation framework is applicable and useful across contexts. It is possible and desirable to assess progress towards social accountability in health professional schools and this is an important step in producing health professionals with knowledge, attitudes, and skills to meet the challenges of priority health needs of underserved populations.
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As a way of demonstrating an objective assessment of trainee competence, the College of Family Physicians of Canada has recently approved a competency-based framework known as CanMEDS-FM. All training programs in family medicine in Canada will be required to demonstrate the development of curriculum and evaluation methods based on the roles defined by the framework. ⋯ The competency-based curriculum is both a new method of learning for residents and, a new method of teaching for faculty. While there are many potential benefits and challenges, this article focuses on the model's utility in terms of flexible learner-centered educational design, as well as its ability to identify learners' strengths and needs.