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Digital professionalism on social media: A narrative review of the medical, nursing, and allied health education literature

This article explores the use of social media to communicate and share information among medical, nursing, and allied health students and highlights t…

Interprofessional education: tips for design and implementation

Interprofessional education (IPE) is important for all health professionals as teamwork and collaboration are important competencies. IPE should enhan…

Hawks and Doves: Perceptions and Reality of Faculty Evaluations

This paper focus on inconsistencies between evaluator ratings in internal medicine and considers how to promote accuracy and fairness for reliable ass…

‘Hawks’ and ‘doves’: effect of feedback on grades awarded by supervisors of student selected components

The concept of 'doves and hawks' suggests that some supervisors may give higher grades than others for the same performance. This paper explores wheth…

No joke: The serious role of improv in medicine

This article illustrates the importance and relevance using improvisation techniques to teach medical practitioners how to more effectively communicat…

Primary care nurses’ perception of leadership and the influence of individual and work setting characteristics: A descriptive study

The aim of this study is to describe primary care nurses' perceptions of their formal leaders' leadership behaviours and outcomes and explore differen…

Essential leadership concepts and models for graduate and professional school learners

This article explores the importance of providing leadership development opportunities for graduate and professional students, in addition to highligh…

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors

A really useful pocket guide for health professionals involved in teaching and assessment activities.

Improving competence and safety in pain medicine: a practical clinical teaching strategy for students combining simulation and bedside teaching

Pain is a devastating sensation and has to be treated immediately. Therefore, we developed a training program to improve the knowledge of medical stu…

Barriers to outpatient education for medical students: a narrative review

This study surveys medical education literature published over the last 25 years (1993-2018) to identify the factors scholars consider deleterious to …