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Direct linkRuth Kinston; Simon Gay; R. K. McKinley; Sreya Sam; Sarah Yardley; Janet Lefroy – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
The goal of better medical student preparation for clinical practice drives curricular initiatives worldwide. Learning theory underpins Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) as a means of safe transition to independent practice. Regulators mandate senior assistantships to improve practice readiness. It is important to know whether meaningful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Assistants, Medical Students, Graduate Medical Education
Man Jit Jess Kwok; Wright Jacob – Health Education Research, 2024
The Ukrainian conflict and the increasing number of asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) in the United Kingdom have highlighted the critical need for a dedicated AS&R health curriculum in medical undergraduate programmes. This study utilized a mixed-method approach to assess the current state of AS&R curricula worldwide, identify…
Descriptors: Refugees, Medical Schools, Medical Education, Undergraduate Study
Collaborating for Change: Reimagining Medical Education in Jordan through International Partnerships
Mahmoud M. Sarhan; James Kelly; Neveen El-Farra; Mohammed Ahmed Rashid – Discover Education, 2025
Medical education in Jordan has evolved rapidly in the last 50 years as successive governments and higher education leaders have responded swiftly to developing healthcare sector demands. Despite significant progress being made, there remain a substantial number of challenges for the Jordanian medical education system that require careful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Educational History, Medical Schools
Megan Cornwell; Sebastian Charles Keith Shaw – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Recent statistics found the prevalence of dyslexia in UK medical schools to be 7%, sitting below the national prevalence of 10%. The factors contributing to this discrepancy are currently unknown, but may result from an interplay of individual and systemic barriers to entering medicine. This collaborative, analytic autoethnography aimed to use the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Clinical Diagnosis, Identification, College Applicants
Olivia Eguiguren Wray; Samuel R. Pollard; Anna Mountford-Zimdars – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2024
We audited the websites of all 57 undergraduate medicine course websites at UK universities for 2020 entry, looking in particular for the clarity of information regarding contextual admissions (CA). 49 programmes featured 47 distinct CA policies, using 26 different contextual markers, 8 programmes had no CA policy. Half (51%) of these courses with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Medical Schools, Web Sites
Jinga, Maria-Ruxandra; Lee, Rachel B. Y.; Chan, Kai Lok; Marway, Prabhvir S.; Nandapalan, Krishan; Rhode, Kawal; Kui, Christopher; Lee, Matthew – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Three-dimensional (3D) segmentation, a process involving digitally marking anatomical structures on cross-sectional images such as computed tomography (CT), and 3D printing (3DP) are being increasingly utilized in medical education. Exposure to this technology within medical schools and hospitals remains limited in the United Kingdom. M3dicube UK,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Peripherals, Printing, Anatomy
Salinas-Alvarez, Yolanda; Quiroga-Garza, Alejandro; Martinez-Garza, Javier Humberto; Jacobo-Baca, Guillermo; Zarate-Garza, Pablo Patricio; Rodríguez-Alanís, Karla Valeria; Guzman-Lopez, Santos; Elizondo-Omaña, Rodrigo Enrique – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2021
Anatomical sciences curricula have been under constant reform over the years, with many countries having to reduce course hours while trying to preserve laboratory time. In Mexico, schools have historically been autonomous and unregulated, and data regarding structure and methods are still lacking. A national survey was sent by the Mexican Society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anatomy, Medical Education, Medical Schools
T. Dada; S. Lowe; P. Whybrow – Discover Education, 2024
Across the United Kingdom, medical schools are acknowledging the need to respond to inequalities experienced by minority groups, racism within healthcare, and the need to decolonise medical curricula. Understanding the impact of structural racism is increasingly recognised as part of health professionals' training. In this paper we report the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Medical Schools, Health Services
Universities UK, 2023
The National Health Service (NHS) celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. Its founding principles of care for all, free at point of need, funded from general taxation, a source of British pride. However the public has growing concerns about the standard of care and is pessimistic about the future. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Health Services
Holmes, Matthew James Vaughton; Morris, Isla-Kate; Williams, Anthony; Le Blond, Jennifer; Cranna, Victoria; Davey, Gail – Research Ethics, 2019
A global health archive consisting of podoconiosis tissue slides and blocks (which was collected and imported into the UK before the introduction of the Human Tissue Act), was donated to Brighton & Sussex Medical School in 2014. There is little guidance on the socioethical and legal issues surrounding the retrospective use of archived or…
Descriptors: Archives, Health, Ethics, Human Body
McElwee, Sarah; Y. F. Cheung, Kevin; R. T. Cromie, Stephen; Shannon, Mark; Gallacher, Tom – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
The BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT) has been used to select students for healthcare courses for 15 years. Recently, the candidature has included an increasing number of test takers who did not complete their schooling in the UK. In line with responsibilities to promote widening participation, a revision of the Section 2 Scientific Knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, College Admission, Medical Schools
Alexander, Kirsty; Nicholson, Sandra; Cleland, Jennifer – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Medical schools worldwide undertake widening access (WA) initiatives (e.g. pipeline, outreach and academic enrichment programmes) to support pupils from high schools which do not traditionally send high numbers of applicants to medicine. UK literature indicates that pupils in these schools feel that their teachers are ill-equipped, cautious or…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Access to Education
Marino, Katherine; Merrick, Deborah; Edwards, Kimberly; Pratten, Margaret – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2019
The United Kingdom is currently facing crisis due to a shortage of radiology consultants despite ever-increasing demand for medical imaging. The specifics of how best to teach radiology has generated increasing interest. This study aims to determine whether musculoskeletal (MSK) radiology teaching at the University of Nottingham (UoN) Medical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Radiology, Allied Health Personnel, Anatomy
Martins, Maria João; Reis Marques, Tiago; Laíns, Inês; Leal, Inês; Pessanha, Inês; Brochado, Bruno; Oliveira Santos, Manuel; Pinto Teixeira, Pedro; Fernandes, Diogo Hipólito; Silva, João Carlos; Sampaio, Filipa Almeida; Brandão, Mariana; Morais, Inês; Laranjinha, Inês; Teixeira, Nelson; Fernandes, Tiago; Carneiro, Diogo; Calvão, Joana; Pratas, Miguel; Palmela, Carolina; Lima, António; Pires, Guilherme; Reis, Joel; Raimundo, Miguel; Afonso, Raquel Rocha; Costa e Silva, Miguel; Quintas, Catarina; Rodrigues, Tiago M.; Coelho, Nuno Henriques; Ramos, Sónia Afonso; Policiano, Catarina; Rato, Catarina; Faria, Daniel Candeias; Lopes, Alice; Rodrigues, Joana Ramos; Ferreira, Afonso Nunes; Costeira, Filipa de Sousa; Marques, Renata; Cordeiro, Hugo; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) is a sound and widely used instrument for assessing students' academic experiences. We aimed to translate the NSS for Portuguese students and to validate the instrument in a sample of medical undergraduates. The research team translated and adapted the NSS for Portuguese students (NSS-P). The survey was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Medical Students
Zahra, Daniel; Robinson, Iain; Roberts, Martin; Coombes, Lee; Cockerill, Josephine; Burr, Steven – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Processes for moderating assessments are much debated in higher education. The myriad approaches to the task vary in their demands on staff time and expertise, and also in how valid, reliable and fair to students they appear. Medical education, with its diverse range of assessments and assessors across clinical and academic domains presents…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Benchmarking, Qualitative Research
