22 papers
This study demonstrates that large language models can achieve near-perfect accuracy and reproducibility in scoring medical student reflection essays, with fine-tuned models and prompts containing exemplars offering the highest performance while cost-effectiveness varies based on essay volume.
PRIME-CVD is a freely available, synthetic medical environment that generates two distinct cardiovascular risk datasets from causal graphs and public statistics to enable safe, reproducible education in data cleaning, causal reasoning, and risk modelling without compromising patient privacy.
This cross-sectional study of 102 medical students at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat reveals that despite varying self-reported English proficiency, the vast majority strongly favor implementing English as a medium of instruction, with higher support significantly predicted by advanced academic standing, personal interest in learning English, and the belief that English should be the language of higher education.
This study employs constructivist grounded theory to explore how rural healthcare practitioners in Ontario utilize "plasticity"—defined as flexible role and task shifting—to navigate resource scarcity, revealing that while this adaptability serves as a vital strength, chronic plasticity driven by systemic under-resourcing and the pandemic ultimately contributes to burnout and professional demoralization.
This paper proposes a web-based, expert-led framework that leverages local open-source large language models and logic-based assessment of written rationales to create scalable, privacy-preserving micro-credentials for AI literacy across the healthcare workforce.
This multi-institutional survey reveals that while private US universities generally offer superior startup support and childcare policies, the post-pandemic landscape has seen reduced supplemental funding and increased clinical demands on junior physician-scientists, underscoring the need for greater hiring transparency to improve retention.
A 2025 study in Bamako, Mali, found that a five-day hybrid educational workshop significantly improved knowledge of male complications and screening acceptability among 174 youths aged 15–24 regarding genital chlamydia, though persistent stigma and limited partner communication highlight the need for sustained interventions.
This retrospective machine learning study of 661 medical students in the UAE reveals that while high school curriculum type is not a strong predictor of graduation success, cumulative GPA is the most influential factor, suggesting that targeted academic support and advanced predictive modeling are more effective for improving student outcomes than relying on prior educational backgrounds.
This study demonstrates that an open-weight LLM (LLaMA-3.1) can generate rubric-aligned formative feedback for resident scholarly projects that approaches expert human quality overall, particularly excelling in safety assessments and specific project types, though human evaluators generally maintain a slight edge in reasoning and trust.
A 2024–2025 cross-sectional web audit of all 202 accredited US medical schools reveals that while scholarly research programs are ubiquitous, they exhibit significant heterogeneity in structure and support, with research-intensive and top-ranked institutions more likely to offer longer, compulsory programs with external funding compared to other schools.
This study demonstrates that a 10-week, internationally-accredited, online training program significantly enhances the core competencies of clinical trial coordinators across 19 African countries, particularly in operational and administrative domains, thereby addressing critical gaps in structured capacity building for clinical research in the region.
This study protocol outlines a randomized feasibility-controlled trial at a Swiss University of Applied Sciences to evaluate the implementation and impact of programmatic assessment, comparing individual and group coaching against a control group, within an undergraduate physiotherapy curriculum aimed at shifting from behaviorist to competence-based education.
This study provides preliminary validation of a novel cognitive assessment tool, demonstrating that among Advanced Practice Providers in emergency and urgent care settings, an outcome-oriented mindset is significantly associated with lower burnout and higher professional fulfillment compared to a problem-oriented mindset.
A multi-component career mentoring program at UCSF significantly enhanced the career trajectories of early-stage HIV investigators by providing supplemental support in grant writing, collaboration, and conflict resolution, though it highlighted a need for more targeted assistance for underrepresented minority researchers facing structural barriers.
This study presents the development and validation of CPX-MATE, an end-to-end voice-based AI platform that successfully integrates real-time virtual patient simulation with automated evaluation, demonstrating high dialogue fidelity, human-level scoring agreement, and strong usability in a prospective medical clerkship.
This randomized controlled trial involving 147 Nigerian medical students demonstrates that listening to culturally familiar Igbo Highlife music significantly enhances memory recall and problem-solving efficiency compared to Western classical music or silence, suggesting that culturally salient auditory stimuli can optimize learning outcomes in medical education.
This quasi-experimental study found that while Team-Based Learning and lecture-based instruction yielded comparable academic performance in chest radiograph interpretation for physician associate students, Team-Based Learning significantly enhanced learner engagement, peer interaction, and self-efficacy.
This study demonstrates that medical students at the University of Burundi perceive a multimodal, non-cadaveric teaching approach—combining lectures with 3D models, virtual apps, and surgical context—as an effective and preferred method for achieving anatomy learning objectives despite resource limitations.
This one-group pre-post quasi-experimental study demonstrates that a therapeutic communication educational module significantly improved the knowledge, confidence, and practical skills of nursing trainees in a low-resource setting in Kampala, Uganda.
This paper proposes a non-random rotation matching algorithm that treats third-year medical student clerkship assignments as a linear-sum optimization problem to minimize costs and better align students with their interests and career goals.