Objectives In order to recognise and facilitate the development of excellent medical doctors
(physicians and residents), it is important to first identify the characteristics of excellence …

A growing movement to integrate the arts and humanities into health professions education
is afoot. While educators may easily conceive how arts-based teaching can improve …

Scholarly practitioners are broadly defined as healthcare professionals that address critical
practice problems using theory, scientific evidence, and practice-based knowledge. Though …

Purpose To assess the relationships of cognitive and noncognitive performance predictors
to medical student preclinical and clinical performance indicators across medical school …

Background: Traditional preclinical curricula based on memorization of scientific facts
constitute learning environments which may negatively influence both factual understanding …

Abstract Clinician Educators (CEs) play an essential role in the education and patient care
missions of academic medical centers. Despite their crucial role, academic advancement is …

Background Direct observation can be valuable for learners' skill development in graduate
medical education, but it is done infrequently. Information on how to optimize trainee …

AIM To perform a bibliometric analysis of publications rates in orthopedics in the top 15
orthopaedic journals. METHODS Based on their 2015 impact factor, the fifteen highest …

Background Teaching practice is presumed to have significant overlap with clinical skills, yet
few studies to date have assessed how residents' teaching skills influence their clinical …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Awards given to medical school faculty are one important
mechanism for recognizing what is valued in academic medicine. There have been …