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In healthcare, developing high procedural skill levels through training is a key factor for obtaining good clinical results on surgical procedures. Providing feedback to each student tailored to how the student has performed the procedure... more
In 1994 and 1995, the Medical Council of Canada used an innovative approach to set the pass mark on its large scale, multi-center national OSCE which is designed to assess basic clinical and communication skills in physicians in Canada... more
In this paper, a patient model is used in the core of a medical training simulator. A concrete case is developed and validated by an expert. The process followed in description, designing and evaluation of this case is described in... more
Making decisions about the care of individual patients is fundamental to health care. For each patient, many decisions have to be made. In the emergency room, for example, a doctor should decide which patient to see first, decide whether... more
Object Nowadays, most of the surgical training programs follow a duration-based format that focuses on improving technical skills of trainees for a fixed amount of time before declaring their proficiency. More recently, different... more
This article deals with the presence of physicians, surgeons and apothecaries in the early modern Portuguese empire and the dissemination of medical knowledge there. In Portugal itself, the health care sector had been the target of... more
This article contributes to knowledge on medical training and careers at a time of change driven by Enlightenment ideas, but also a time of conflict between age-old structures and new legal frameworks. By analyzing an individual... more
This article reports a study comparing the problem-solving performance of housestaff with undergraduate medical training in either conventional or problem-based schools. After reading two clinical cases, residents were required to write... more
Summary. Concern is often expressed about the English language proficiency (ELP) of students engaged in professional training. This report assesses the ELP of the 1990 and 1991 intakes into medicine at the University of Sydney. A quick... more