ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
A new method of recording attendance improves the academic performance of medical students
Introduction: Students’ engagement during the collection of attendance (SEdCA) is a method where students write the answer to a question related to the topic of preceding 1-h lecture. Then,attendance is recorded by the teacher from the answer sheets. This method was introduced primarily to overcome difficulty in recording attendance from a class of high attendance. Its potential formative assessment capability has not yet been ascertained. With this background, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the application of SEdCA as a method of formative assessment on the academic performance of first-year medical students.Methods: This interventional, uncontrolled, before and after study was conducted on 93 first-year medical students. Part completion test (PCT) scores in anatomy before the application of SEdCAwas considered as the pre-intervention academic performance. Then, 1-h lectures were designed according to SEdCA for a period of 3 months. The next PCT scores were taken as postinterventionperformance and compared with the pre-intervention performance using paired t-test with α=0.05.Results: Ninety-three (female=38, male=55) first-year medical students with a mean age of 17.65±0.88 years participated in the study. There was a significant increase in theory (23.74±5.67versus 26.40±5.17, t=3.31, p <0.001), practical (21.43±6.60 versus 24.08±5.16, t=6.95, p <0.001), and total (45.17±11 versus 50.47±9.17, t=8, p <0.001) scores in the post-intervention PCT.Conclusion: SEdCA may be applied to enhance the academic competency of first-year medical students. However, its impact should be evaluated further in multiple subjects in students of different years of study in more institutes for a generalized result.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46405_f2e7ad621b5a1c09a059b769489a3ee6.pdf
2020-04-01
55
60
10.30476/jamp.2020.81723.1029
Academic Performance
Attention
Medical education
Students
HIMEL
MONDAL
himelmkcg@gmail.com
1
Department of Physiology, Bhima Bhoi Medical College & Hospital, Balangir, Odisha, India
LEAD_AUTHOR
KOUSHIK
SAHA
jkoukou@gmail.com
2
Department of Anatomy, Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India
AUTHOR
SHAIKAT
MONDAL
drshaikat@gmail.com
3
Department of Physiology, Kalna SD Hospital, Kalna, West Bengal, India
AUTHOR
PIYALI
SAHA
ipiyali1989@gmail.com
4
Department of Special Education, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
AUTHOR
SAIRAVI
BIRI
byrey.kiran@gmail.com
5
Department of Biochemistry, Fakir Mohan Medical College and Hospital, Balasore, Odisha, India
AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
A novel model of clinical reasoning: Cognitive zipper model
Introduction: Clinical reasoning is a vital aspect of physician competence. It has been the subject of academic research for decades, and various models of clinical reasoning have been proposed. The aim of the present study was to develop a theoretical model of clinical reasoning.Methods: To conduct our study, we applied the process of theory synthesis in accordance with the Walker and Avant’s approach. First, we considered clinical reasoning as a focal concept of our study. Second, a search was carried out for the period 1984–2018, using the PubMed, Google Scholar, PsycINFO, ERIC, ScienceDirect and Web of Science databases to review the literature to identify factors related to the clinical reasoning and the nature of their relationships. Third, we organized clinical reasoning into an integrated and efficient representation of the clinical reasoning.Results: According to this study clinical reasoning is the iterative process of intermediation between the recalled clinical knowledge and the patient’s represented problem in the clinicians’ activememory. We analogize the process of clinical reasoning to the process of closure of a cognitive zipper. The recalled knowledge in clinician’s memory resembles to one side of zippers teeth and the evolving representation of the patient’s problem resembles the other side of zippers teeth. So, the results of this study are presented in three models: [1] multi-layer knowledge structure model, [2] problem representation model and [3] cognitive zipper model of diagnostic reasoning. Conclusion: We propose a developmental model of clinical reasoning. Several studies have tried to present models and theories to clarify clinical reasoning, but it seems that these theories and models could only explain part of this complex process and not the whole process. Cognitive zipper model, due to its developmental structure, can illustrate the clinical reasoning process in more details than other models do.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46406_a55745cd60e83cd10d44a3da0769d591.pdf
2020-04-01
61
71
10.30476/jamp.2020.82230.1050
Clinical decision making
Problem solving
Judgment
SHAHRAM
YAZDANI
shahram.yazdani@yahoo.com
1
School of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
MARYAM
HOSEINI ABARDEH
hoseini.abardeh@sbmu.ac.ir
2
School of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Barriers of critical thinking in medical students’ curriculum from the viewpoint of medical education experts: A qualitative study
Introduction: The widespread developments of the twentyfirst century have been accompanied by the presentation of intellectual patterns and theories and new achievements. These new achievements emphasize the skill of thinking at high levels, especially in the educational system of universities. This skill is essential for medical students; therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the qualitative barriers of critical thinking in medical students’ curriculum.Methods: This is a qualitative study in which the content analysis method has been used. Participants of this study included 11 medical education experts and medical students (6 females and 5 males) who were selected through a semi-structured interview and purposeful sampling. The data analysis method was conventional content analysis. In the next part, by more investigation of the data, various obtained concepts will be presented in the form of themes, categories, and subcategories.Results: We obtained two themes (socio-cultural conditions and traditional and unchanging system of education), eight categories and 14 subcategories.Also, these categories were resistance to critical society, intellectual tension, personality characteristics, lack of understanding of society’s need for criticism, the rule of traditional teaching pattern, lack of critical thinking skills, ineffective evaluation, and difficulty of critical thinking training. Conclusion: Given the results and the main emphasis of curriculum planners on incorporating high-level critical thinking and revision skills into the curriculum, the country’s academic education system requires a change in the thinking style, research, deepening critical thinking, and a change in teachers’attitudes toward curriculum designing (goals, content, teaching and evaluation methods); also, it is suggested that the authorities should pay attention to the need to develop and utilize critical thinking skills in the learners’ education.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46407_51cd4dec9a0a7515fabb04a72a87ffd0.pdf
2020-04-01
72
82
10.30476/jamp.2020.83053.1080
Barriers
Thinking
Critical thinking
Curriculum
Medical education
AFSHINEH
KASALAEI
afshinehkasalaei@gmail.com
1
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
MITRA
AMINI
mitraamini51@yahoo.com
2
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
PARISA
NABEIEI
jamp@sums.ac.ir
3
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
LEILA
BAZRAFKAN
bazrafcan@gmail.com
4
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
HOURI
MOUSAVINEZHAD
houri_mousavinezhad@yahoo.com
5
Cardiovascular Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Academic procrastination of medical students: The role of Internet addiction
Introduction: The internet is an essential and widely used tool for college students; however, high internet dependency can have negative consequences for students, especially regarding academiccareers. Such students may tend to postpone their academic tasks. Hence, the current study examines the effect of Internet addiction on academic procrastination among medical students.Methods: We applied a cross-sectional correlational research design. 233 medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences were selected through convenience sampling and participated in this study. To collect the data, we used two valid and reliable questionnaires. The first was Young’s Internet addiction questionnaire (IAT-20), which consists of 20 items based on a 5-point Likert-type scale. The second was Solomon and Rothblum academic procrastination questionnaire, whichconsists of 18 items based on a 5 point Likert-type scale. We used Pearson correlation, independent T-test, and One-Way ANOVA to analyze the data in SPSS version 22, and considered a significancelevel of p <0.05. Results: Results showed that 57.1% of the respondents were females, and the remaining were males. Findings indicated that 8 (3.43%) of the participants were classified as severe internetaddicted, and 28.85% of them had a high level of academic procrastination. The results indicated that there was a positive and significant correlation between Internet addiction and academic procrastination (r=0.39, with p <0.01). Also, there was a positive correlation between academic procrastination dimensions (writing a term paper, studying for an exam, keeping up with weekly reading assignments, performing administrative tasks, attending meetings and performing academic tasks in general) and Internet addiction (r=0.22, r=0.32, r=0.21, r=0.29, r=0.33, and r=0.23, respectively, with p <0.01). Finally, the results revealed that male students and those living in the dormitory had a higher level of Internet addiction and procrastination compared to female onesand those living at home (p <0.01). Conclusion: The findings of the current research reveal that a considerable number of students have levels of Internet addiction and procrastination; the study highlights that students with high levels of Internet addiction are more likely to be at an increased risk of negative outcomes such as insufficiently controlled Internet use.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46408_97c8a1d4372945ab429f8510fe8c2706.pdf
2020-04-01
83
89
10.30476/jamp.2020.85000.1159
Internet
Procrastination
Medical Students
Academic procrastination
ALI
HAYAT
ali.hayat63@gmail.com
1
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
JAVAD
KOJURI
kojurij@yahoo.com
2
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
MITRA
AMINI
mitraamini51@yahoo.com
3
Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Motivating medical students for social accountability in medical schools
Introduction: As health professionals, physicians are accountable for their professional practice. The aim of this study was to explain the medical students’ motivation to attain social accountability inmedical schools, based on the experience of both students and faculties.Methods: We conducted a qualitative conventional content analysis research in Shiraz University of medical sciences in Iran since 2018 through purposive, snowball sampling. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 35 participants i.e., medical students and teachers. Coding was carried out by conventional content analysis. Results: We drew four themes and ten related subthemes and the central variable explains the motivation of medical students toward social accountability and makes a link among the subthemes,was purposeful beliefs and behavior. The key dimensions during motivational process which generated the social accountability development in medical students consisted of social culture ofmedicine, medical school reality, teaching and learning strategy and creating purposeful beliefs and behavior. Also, eight subthemes of individual motivation, content motivation process motivation,attending to the outcomes of the curriculum, traditional routine centered curriculum, observational learning, role modeling, hidden curriculum, respect for social values and norms and benefitting the society emerged which explain the process of motivate for social accountability by creating purposeful beliefs and behavior in medical students.Conclusions: The core variable of motivation toward social accountability must be reflected in future developmental programs, curriculum planning and training general physicians. In other words, the best efforts for purposeful beliefs and behavior in medical students, must be made to improve motivation toward social accountability.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46409_5f6ef7aad960543099ae1256f41043b4.pdf
2020-04-01
90
99
10.30476/jamp.2020.84117.1128
Motivation
Medical student
accountability
Qualitative research
Content analysis
MAHBOOBEH
MOHAMMADI
mahbobeh.mohammadi@googlemail.com
1
Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch, Iran
AUTHOR
MEHDI
BAGHERI
m.b.azad.uni@gmail.com
2
Department of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
PARIVASH
JAFARI
pjaafari@yahoo.com
3
Department of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
AUTHOR
LEILA
BAZRAFKAN
leilabazrafcan@gmail.com
4
Clinical Education Research Canter, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Do medical interns publish findings of compulsory audit or research projects? Five-year experience from a single centre in New Zealand
Introduction: There is a paucity of literature on research output of Australasian interns. We have previously shown great interest among interns rotating in our department to publish or presenttheir findings from an audit or research project (ARP). The aim of this study was to examine the output of the intern ARP.Methods: ARP titles over a five-year period were searched in academic databases. We compared the output rate from our institution to a rate estimated a priori from previously published literature.Results: A total of 186 ARPs were conducted over the study period. Of these, only two were published (one original article and one letter) and one was presented at a national conference. The observed productivity rate was significantly lower than that of the estimated rate (χ2=4.49, P=0.034).Conclusion: Despite potential limitations, our study remains the largest study to report on intern research productivity in Australasia. It provides evidence of the need for improvement in and encouragement of research conducted by junior doctors.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46410_5387bbecda7f02e152a81a95ad4d87a4.pdf
2020-04-01
100
104
10.30476/jamp.2019.81894.1040
Medical interns
Research projects
Compulsory audit
YASSAR
ALAMRI
yassar.alamri@nzbri.org
1
New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of General Medicine, Christchurch Public Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
LEAD_AUTHOR
KHALID
ALSAHLI
k.alsahli@gmail.com
2
The Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
AUTHOR
JENNY
BUTLER
jenny.butler@cdhb.health.org.nz
3
Department of General Medicine, Christchurch Public Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
AUTHOR
TOM
CAWOOD
tom.cawood@cdhb.health.org.nz
4
Department of Endocrinology, Christchurch Public Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Being a departmental head – what does it mean? Emphasizing the salience and shades in medical academia
Dear Editor, When an academician or clinician assumes the chair of department, multiple responsibilities dawn upon the chair that requires appropriate analysis and effective decision-making skills. Head of the department is uniquely poised to translate the organisational goals into the collective performance of the departmental members. Headship is an iterative process which necessitates providing a mechanism for sense-making among sub-ordinates depending upon the varying environments (1). Sense-making can be defined as the ability of the head to improve the capacity of the department by productively organizing the information / perspectives arising from the various stakeholders and develop the most optimal action plan (2). An effective sense making can be achieved by articulating the formulated vision, influencing the peers, emphasising the goals, adopting the right problem-solving approaches and honing a proactive relationship dynamics among departmental members. The ability of sense-making gains more importance in high stakes departments where it is crucial to strike the right balance between the teaching, research and patient service before opting for major changes in the administration of the department.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46411_988bde17962942521cc75a4b7a31d0e6.pdf
2020-04-01
105
106
10.30476/jamp.2019.81476.1009
salience
shades, medical academia
S.S.S.N
RAJASEKHAR
sekhar5883@gmail.com
1
Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry – 605006, India
AUTHOR
DINESH
KUMAR. V
dinesh.88560@gmail.com
2
Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry – 605006, India
LEAD_AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Too much but less effective: Managing the cognitive load while designing the distanced learning instructional formats
In the light of educational disruptions due to COVID-19 outbreak, most, if not all institutions have adopted distanced online based learning methodologies. But, most educators seem to unaware regarding the cognitive load associated while designing such instructional formats. Through this letter, we intend to convey our practical experiences while shifting to such formats and wish to discuss the basics of educational psychology related to cognitive load. Since it is a pandemic problem, we feel that educators across world might read this letter with great interest.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_46511_5b444b6c33b21f30a4a08180f9e24b66.pdf
2020-04-01
107
108
10.30476/jamp.2020.85990.1208
Instructional Design
cognitive load
distanced learning
learning process
DINESH
KUMAR. V
dinesh.88560@gmail.com
1
Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry – 605006, India
LEAD_AUTHOR
S.S.S.N
RAJASEKHAR
sekhar5883@gmail.com
2
Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry – 605006, India
AUTHOR