Medical Education 2012: 46: 257–266 Context Over the last two decades, many medical
educators have sought to define professionalism. Initial attempts to do so were focused on …

Clinical reasoning is the thought process that guides practice. Although a plethora of clinical
reasoning studies in healthcare professionals exists, the majority appear to originate from …

Objective Medication errors are common, with junior doctors accounting for the majority in
acute healthcare. Paediatrics is uniquely challenging, but the evidence base to guide …

Background: Junior doctors are frequently faced with making difficult clinical decisions and
previous studies have shown that they are unprepared for some aspects of clinical decision …

Professionalism has been increasingly recognised as an explicit component of medical
education, especially in the western world. Professionalism is culture-sensitive. Few efforts …

True/false multiple choice items, commonly referred to as true/false multiple choice
questions (MCQs), were previously a widely used selected response examination format …

Background The use of lengthy, detailed, and complex informed consent forms (ICFs) is of
paramount concern in biomedical research as it may not truly promote the rights and …

Purpose: The impact of the educational environment in student learning is well documented.
However, there is a scarcity in the literature exploring the educational environment in …

Aim: This study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire that measures attitudes of
medical students on professionalism in the Arabian context. Method: Thirty-two experts …

Background: A proportion of newly qualified doctors report feeling unprepared to manage
patients with palliative care and end-of-life needs. This may be related to barriers within their …