Purpose The goal of this systematic review was to examine self-directed learning (SDL)
assessment practices in undergraduate health professions education. Methods Seven …

For the last 20 years, undergraduate medical education has seen a major curricular reform
movement toward integration of basic and clinical sciences. The rationale for integrated …

Background Every curriculum needs to be reviewed, implemented and evaluated; it must
also comply with the regulatory standards. This report demonstrates the value of curriculum …

Despite a steady growth in educational innovations and studies investigating the
acceptance and effectiveness of these innovations, medical education has not realized …

Construct: Clinical skills are used in the care of patients, including reporting, diagnostic
reasoning, and decision-making skills. Written comprehensive new patient admission notes …

Background: Practicing physicians require serious illness communication (SIC) skills to
ensure high-quality, humanistic care for patients and families as they face life-changing …

Abstract The United States faces a shortage of primary care physicians. To address this,
there have been pioneering efforts to develop accelerated pathways with a primary care …

The way students are taught and evaluated is changing, with greater emphasis on flexible,
individualized, learner‐centered education, including the use of technology. The goal of …

Introduction: To create time for learner-centered forms of active learning in the classroom,
didactic lectures are being replaced with instructor-guided independent learning (IGIL) …

Background: In the last 3 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) declared
advancement of understanding the role sex as a biological variable has in research a …