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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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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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The University of Adelaide offers a six-year undergraduate medical degree with a focus on small group learning. Senior medical students had previously received limited formal training in education skills, and were identified as an underutilised teaching resource. ⋯ The implementation of NPTs in the teaching of junior medical students appears to benefit both students and their near-peer colleagues. Involvement of NPTs in all facets of medical education through this rotation stands to not only foster potential interest in an academic pathway but also equip them with a variety of transferable skills which they can draw on as future educators in their profession.
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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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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.