Written by Reshma Jagsi
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Paid parental leave is strongly linked to better health and social outcomes for families. Yet, many U.S. employers fall short of the 8–12 weeks advocated by major medical organizations, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association. To assess how well academic medicine follows these standards, we reviewed parental leave policies across all allopathic medical schools in the United States. Our analysis fo
Written by Yu-Feng Wong
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Medical humanities (MH) courses blend humanities with medical training to help students develop essential skills and empathy. Yet, how MH influences practical clinical performance during internships is not well established. This study investigated the effect of MH learning on internship outcomes. We analyzed the academic records of 1,364 medical students from eight admission cohorts. Student performance in basic sciences, clinical skills, and MH courses was evaluated, alongside internship grades
Written by Thomas Schlich
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
The Nobel Prize is among the most prestigious honors worldwide. Laureates travel to Stockholm to deliver their Nobel Lecture, which typically combines a scientific and historical overview of their discoveries with personal or professional reflections. In this study, we systematically examined Nobel lectures in physiology or medicine to assess whether laureates explicitly acknowledged their mentors and, if so, in what form. In this study, we analyzed 208 Nobel Lectures in physiology or medicine d
Written by Paola Ferri
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Student satisfaction is an essential measure of the quality of education, offering insights into areas needing improvement and guiding enhancements in learning experiences. However, obtaining meaningful results depends on using validated and reliable assessment tools. To date, no Slovak-language instrument has been validated to measure satisfaction with simulation-based learning. This study aimed to translate the Satisfaction with Simulation Experience (SSE) scale into Slovak and evaluate its ps
Written by Robertas Damaševičius
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Serious games serve as safe educational environments where medical students can practice clinical skills without compromising patient safety. When combined with virtual patients through chatbots, these games provide a platform to practice medical history taking. This study explored the effect of self-directed learning, supported by a customized guideline, on history-taking performance in two different chatbot-based serious games. A total of 159 fourth-year medical students were randomly assigned
Written by Nizar Bhulani
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
In 2019, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) revised its procedural training requirements, stating that internal medicine (IM) residents should have the chance to gain competence in procedures relevant to their intended subspecialty, rather than requiring all residents to master every procedure. The purpose of this survey was to identify which procedures fellowship directors believe incoming residents should understand, have limited experience with, or demonstrate competence in before
Written by Javier A. Flores-Cohaila
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Advancing innovation and enhancing quality in medical education depend on how clinician-educators and researchers engage with educational research. To encourage such engagement, we developed a visual framework that maps central topics in medical education research alongside key scholars in the field. Through individual virtual interviews with editorial board members from nine leading medical education journals, we explored their perspectives on significant research areas and the experts they mos
Written by Man Lin Huang
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Agitation is a common and growing issue in healthcare, especially within psychiatric services. However, many healthcare students report lacking adequate preparation to respond effectively, often due to fear, stigma, and limited real-world practice. Conventional training methods, such as lectures and standard simulations, are not only resource-heavy but also provide few chances for repeated, safe rehearsal. Virtual reality (VR) offers an alternative by enabling immersive, standardised, and repeat
Written by Anke Bueter
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
This qualitative exploratory study investigates the identity work of specializing physicians (SPs) in interprofessional (IP) teams, focusing on how they define their professional roles and relationships through the framework of positioning theory. The analysis is based on 65 self-reflective essays authored by SPs as part of their mandatory leadership training. The positioning analysis revealed five distinct physician roles—peer, coordinator, leader, medical expert, and decision-maker—and identif
Written by Hongjun Ba
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Simulation-based medical education (SBME) represents a transformative approach to teaching, enabling learners to replicate realistic patient scenarios and acquire skills in a safe environment that does not compromise patient safety. Despite its increasing adoption, there is limited information regarding its perceived impact and value, specifically in oncology education. To address this gap, we conducted a bibliometric analysis to examine global trends and potential directions for SBME in oncolog
Written by Moses K. Otieno
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
The workload borne by healthcare professionals can influence the standard of medical care. Practical evidence suggests that providers experience varying levels of workload depending on differences in education and training. Clinical pharmacists constitute a vital component of multidisciplinary medical teams. In China, clinical pharmacists commonly face imbalanced clinical pharmacy workloads; however, how workload relates to differences in their educational backgrounds has not been clearly define
Written by Noura A. Al-Hassan
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
This research aimed to determine the key attributes or performance factors that define a "star" faculty member in the field of academic pharmacy. Additionally, it sought to explore how faculty members' perceptions of these factors vary across different disciplines, academic ranks, years of experience, types of institutions, and supervisory roles. An online survey was distributed to a sample of 3,378 members from the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) mailing lists. The
Written by Stephanie L. Turner
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
One of the most effective methods for promoting and developing professionalism is through hands-on, practice-based experiences. Yet, there is a lack of research in Taiwan examining how experiential learning programs influence pharmacy students’ perspectives on professionalism, which is crucial for high-quality healthcare delivery. This research aimed to assess changes in the perceptions and attitudes of third-year pharmacy students toward professionalism after participating in an introductory-in
Written by Youssef Hariri
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Pharmacists are assuming a more prominent role, with a growing emphasis on direct patient care and expanded pharmaceutical services. This shift is evident in Poland as well. The present study therefore examined Polish pharmacists’ views regarding the feasibility of establishing a new category of pharmacist-only medicines (POMs). Because the research was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the anonymous questionnaire (10 questions for pharmacists) was distributed exclusively online. A total o
Written by David Osei
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Oral mucositis (OM) ranks among the most frequent side effects linked to cancer therapies. Research examining the risk factors for antineoplastic-induced OM and potential preventive strategies remains scarce. To address this, we performed a disproportionality analysis of antineoplastic drug-associated OM and investigated possible preventive agents using data from the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database. According to JADER records spanning April 2004 to March 2022, antineoplastic
Written by Kristian Eriksen
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Low uptake of immunization services remains a major public health issue. Pharmacists serve as key facilitators and, more frequently, as vaccinators themselves. However, strong evidence regarding their effect on patient health outcomes and vaccination coverage remains limited.To assess the effect of pharmacist-led interventions on population-level vaccination rates.A systematic search was conducted in SCOPUS, PubMed, and Web of Science from database inception to April 2023 to identify both random
Written by Mikko Lahtinen
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Medication-related complications remain a major concern in healthcare because drug-related problems (DRPs) may reduce treatment effectiveness, compromise patient safety, and contribute to unwanted clinical outcomes. Clinical pharmacists are increasingly involved in healthcare teams to detect medication-related issues and recommend appropriate solutions. This study investigated the frequency, classification, severity, and management outcomes of DRPs identified through clinical pharmacist activiti
Written by Sarah Bennett
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Medication schedules are usually expressed as stable instructions, yet medication taking occurs inside everyday lives whose timing, demands, relationships, and available support continually change. Accounts centred on adherence identify whether medicines are taken as prescribed but often reveal less about how medication-taking practices remain workable, become disrupted, or are reconstructed when ordinary routines change. This conceptual article develops Temporal Negotiation Theory to explain me
Written by Omar Haddad
Published in Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Community-pharmacy screening can identify people at elevated risk and create opportunities for earlier preventive care, yet a positive screening result does not itself establish that care has been completed. This conceptual article examines the sequence between risk detection and verified follow-up as a boundary-spanning process involving patient interpretation, referral initiation, information transfer, scheduling, care entry, and return of disposition information. Drawing on pharmacy screening
