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George Bardsley: Filling the Gap
B Price Kerfoot, William C DeWolk, Barbara A Masser, Paul A Church & Daniel D Federman. Spaced education improves the retention of clinical knowledge by medical students: a randomised controlled trial. Med Educ 2007; 41: 23-31
Spaced education in the form of weekly emails containing questions and clinical scenarios may significantly improve students retention of medical knowledge, a study has implied. Psychological research conducted in the 70s and 80s concluded that the spacing effect (i.e. education which is spaced and repeated over time) results in a deeper retention of knowledge on a more long-term basis
Hannah Browne: A Model of experienced-based workplace learning?
Tim Dornan, Henny Boshuizen, Nigel King & Albert Scherpbier. Experience-based learning: a model linking the processes and outcomes of medical students workplace learning. Med Educ 2007; 41: 84-91
The teaching of medicine in clinical workplaces has failed to keep up with the new pace of change in other areas of higher education.
Medical education today consists of theory delivery in seminars combined with skill demonstration through simulation. These skills and theories are then poorly integrated into specific disciplines, which fail to identify the links between processes and outcomes; a fundamental component of a contemporary integrated curriculum . Workplace education is evidently important as it is the theatre for most of the doctor s undergraduate and postgraduate education.
Jennifer Telford: Women in medicine - is there a problem?
Sue Kilminster, Julia Downes, Brendan Gough,
Deborah Murdoch-Eaton
, Trudie Roberts. Women in Medicine Is there a Problem? A literature review of the changing gender composition, structures and occupational cultures in medicine. Med Educ 2007; 41: 39-49
The changing gender composition of the medical profession is now an international phenomenon which traverses a range of different health and social systems. This change does not merely reflect an increasing number of women entering the profession, but also the segregation of women through concentration in certain areas of medicine, and under-representation at higher levels of the profession.
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