Call for Manuscripts - Core-Competencies in Scientific Research for Undergraduate Medical Education

Dear medical educators,

Medical Science Educator, the journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators IAMSE, is planning to publish a journal supplement entirely dedicated to the topic “Core-Competencies in Scientific Research for Undergraduate Medical Education”. IAMSE is exploring what the role of basic science research skills should be in the medical curriculum, and therefore we would like to learn more on how the academic society thinks about this issue.


We are currently soliciting article submissions on this topic and we welcome contributions in the format of Short Communication, Original Research, Monograph, Commentary or Opinion. See our website www.medicalscienceeducator.org for more detailed information on these formats. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in our regular review process.


These are the deadlines for this call:

February 15, 2012: Deadline for submitting manuscripts to journal@iamse.org
May 15, 2012: Notification of preliminary acceptance or rejection
August 2012: Publication of the issue.


I look forward to receiving your submission.

Peter de Jong
Editor-in-Chief



Peter G.M. de Jong, PhD
Editor-in-Chief Medical Science Educator

Medical Science Educator 21(4) is Now Available

Dear IAMSE members,

I am happy to present to you issue 21(4) of Medical Science Educator, the Journal of IAMSE. This forth regular issue of this volume concludes the first year of the 'new' journal and shows us again a variety of topics being reported on. I hope you will enjoy this issue and that you and your colleagues will consider publishing your own scholarly work in our Journal for the benefit of all our readers.


To download please login to the IAMSE Members only Website - http://iamse.org/member_logon.htm


Peter G.M. de Jong, PhD
Editor-in-Chief Medical Science Educator


Evaluating the Utility of Peer-Assisted Learning in Pediatric
Pradip D. Patel, Dan B. Kischnick, Scott G. Bickel, Craig H. Ziegler & Karen Hughes Miller

Pre-clerkship Preparation from Live Patient Practice Pelvic Examination
Linda E. May & Amber Lievens-Widenski

Correlation between Clicker Scores and Examination Performance
in Dental Biochemistry
Alan E. Levine

A-PEX: A Case-Based Integrated Physical Diagnosis/Anatomy Program for
First Year Medical Students
Gurpreet Sodhi, Claudia Ranniger, Frank Slaby & Benjamin Blatt

Training Medical Students to Teach Suicide Prevention
Julianne C. Pupa & Norma Susswein Saks

Engaging Students with Clickers in a Distributed Environment – Lessons Learned
Kalyani Premkumar, Cyril Coupal, Krista Trinder & Shiva Shayani Majd

Barriers to Incorporating NICE Clinical Practice Guidelines in Medical Education:
The Medical Student’s Perspective
Logan Manikam, Jaydip Banerjee, Nicholas Blackwell & Monica Lakhanpaul

Family Medicine Residents’ Perspectives on “Worldview Thinking in Patient Care”
Dilip Nair

The Cost of Education: Medical Student Stress during Clerkships
Teresa Tseng, Ana-Maria Iosif & Andreea L. Seritan

The Funding of Graduate Medical Education in the American Healthcare System
Tyler Cymet & R. Dobbin Chow

A Proposal for Tenure
William E. Seifert, Jr. & Henry W. Strobel

Medical Student Wellness: An Essential Role for Mentors
Paula J. Adams Hillard, Preetha Basaviah & Lars Osterberg

Meeting report: Team-Based Learning Collaborative

MSE 21(3S) is Now Available

Dear IAMSE members,

I am happy to present to you the 21(3S) supplement issue of Medical Science Educator, the Journal of IAMSE. This issue is entirely dedicated to the 15th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators in St Petersburg, FL, USA, held from June 18-21, 2011. As tradition, we present all the abstracts of the posters that were actually presented at the meeting. In addition, some of the keynote speakers prepared a short article on the topic of their plenary lecture and the two Outstanding Poster Award winners of this years meeting present to you their work.



To view, please log into the Members Only area of the website.

I hope you will enjoy this issue and that you and your colleagues will consider to attend the 2012 IAMSE meeting yourself.

Peter de Jong
Editor-in-Chief

Fostering Scientific Curiosity and Professional Behaviors in a Basic Science Curriculum	254
Aviad Haramati
Science Education in Medical Curriculum: Teaching Science or Training Scientists?	258
Friedo W. Dekker
Use of Simulation to Assess Competence and Improve Healthcare	261
William C. McGaghie
Creation of a Video-Based Learning Module of Extraocular Muscles’ Structure and Function	264
Jonathan J. Wisco, Sam Payne, Sara Kim & M. Elena Stark
Student Usage of Streaming Video/DVD Electronic Media in a Basic Science Curriculum	266
Jinping Li, Shi-Wen Jiang & Edward C. Klatt
2011 IAMSE Master Teacher and Master Scholar Awards	267
Building Healthcare Professionals in a Medical Science Curriculum	268
Poster Abstracts, 15th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, St Petersburg, FL, USA, June 18-21, 2011

Medical Science Educator 21-3 Now Available

Dear IAMSE members,

I am happy to present to you issue 21(3) of Medical Science Educator, the Journal of IAMSE. This third regular issue of 2011 shows again a variety of topics being reported, including 3 meeting reports. I hope you will enjoy this issue and that you and your colleagues will consider publishing your own scholarly work in our Journal for the benefit of all our readers.

To download: http://www.iamse.org/jiamse/volume21-3/21-3_complete.pdf

Peter G.M. de Jong, PhD
Editor-in-Chief Medical Science Educator


Table of Contents

Introducing Evidence-Based Physical Examination to Internal Medicine Clerkship Students
Somnath Mookherjee, Michelle Mourad, Michelle Milic & Calvin Chou

Changes in Personality and Learning Styles for First Year Medical Students
Nicole J. Borges & Dean X. Parmelee

Virtual PBL: Online Student Interaction to Enhance Learning, Interest, and Peer Feedback
Aaron Danielson & Frazier T. Stevenson

Conversion of an Imaged-Based Lecture to a Virtual Microscopic Tutorial; a Practical Approach Including Student Feedback for Consecutive Classes
Jamie Shutter & Frazier T. Stevenson

Factors that Impact Teaching Evaluations: a Case Study
Shi-Hao Wen, Xiu-Qiang Ma, Jan D. Carline, Wei-Min Ren, Xin-Wen Yan & Yue Wang

The Oncology Education Initiative: Successful Incorporation of Multidisciplinary Oncology Education into the Core Radiology Clerkship
Pauline Mulleady Bishop, Priscilla J. Slanetz & Ariel E. Hirsch

Medical Student Use of Online Lectures: Exam Performance, Learning Styles, Achievement Motivation and Gende
Gary L. Nieder, Nicole J. Borges & John C. Pearson

Introducing the Testimonial-Commentator Format to the Musculoskeletal Curriculum of Medical Student
James D. Katz, Mandana Hashefi, Maryam Hasan, H. David Reines, Samantha McIntosh, Laura Abate, Jennifer Halvaksz & Ellen Goldman

Toward a Culture of Humanism: A Proposal for the Future of Bioethics Education in Medicine
Ashley K. Fernandes

Meeting Report: Medical Education – 2011

Meeting Report: The Use of E-Learning in Medical Education

Meeting Report: Teaching Biochemistry to Students of Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy

Medical Science Educator - 21(2) Now Available

Dear Colleagues,

Please note that Medical Science Educator, the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), has published issue 21(2). For the table of contents see below this email.

IAMSE is an association of health professions educators who are interested in advancing their curriculum design and teaching skills. If you are not a member of IAMSE and would like to access our Journal, consider applying for membership (visit http://www.iamse.org ) or consider an individual Journal subscription (visit to apply http://www.MedicalScienceEducator.org/subscription.html )


Peter G.M. de Jong, PhD
Editor-in-Chief Medical Science Educator
 

Table of Contents of issue 21(2)
 
Patient Safety Education in Medical Education
Anne J. Gunderson, Ara Tekian & Kelly Smith
 
Motivation to Learn, Quality of Life and Estimated Academic Achievement: Medical Students Studying in New Zealand
Marcus A. Henning, Christian U. Krägeloh, Susan J. Hawken,  Iain Doherty, Yipin Zhao & Boaz Shulruf
 
Millennial Students’ Perspectives on the Medical School Learning Environment: A Pilot Study from Two Institutions
Carol L. Elam, Nicole J. Borges & R. Stephen Manuel
 
Does Critical Reflection by Biochemistry Learning Teams Foster Patient-centered Beliefs among Medical Students?
Lon J. Van Winkle, Nalini Chandar, Jacalyn M. Green, Sean M. Lynch, Susan M. Viselli & Paulette Burdick
 
Preparation Time for Preclinical Pathology Educational Activities in Medical Schools: a Survey of Pathology Educators
Geoffrey Talmon, Lynette Smith & S. James Booth
 
Biomedical Animations and Video Clips as Educational Tools
Robert Lavine
 
Evolution of Student Assessment Following Implementation of an Integrated Medical Curriculum: Contribution to Improved Educational Outcomes
Gregory K. Asimakis, Michael A. Ainsworth, Judith F. Aronson, Ann W. Frye, Steven A. Lieberman & Jeffrey P. Rabek
 
Meeting Report: Promoting Engaged Learning and Scholarship across the Medical Education Continuum
 
Meeting Report: New Places, New Opportunities, New Ideas in Medical Education

Medical Science Educator 21-1s Is Now Available

Dear IAMSE members,

I am happy to present to you the first supplement issue of Medical Science Educator, the Journal of IAMSE. This issue is entirely dedicated to basic science research projects for medical students and is published in coordination with the LIMSC conference, one of the largest student conferences in Europe on biomedical research. In this issue we present 10 examples of scientific training programs in medical schools from around the world. It provides us a nice overview of different situations and different approaches to address scientific training. I hope you will enjoy this issue and that you and your colleagues will consider publishing your own scholarly work in our Journal for the benefit of all our readers.

To download please log into the members only section of the IAMSE website.

Peter de Jong Editor-in-Chief

MSE Article Review

To all IAMSE members -

In the inaugural issue of the Medical Science Educator, the new journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), there are several interesting articles that focus on new approaches to medical education. One article that specifically caught my eye was “Use of Lecture Recordings in Medical Education” by 5 educators from Tulane School of Medicine. I was particularly interested in the paper because our medical school began recording lectures coupled to the PowerPoint presentations several years ago as described in this paper but I had not seen any studies on outcomes measured. This study provided some interesting conclusions. First it was reported that greater than 80% of the students used the lecture recordings to replace or supplement their lecture notes. The authors observed that after instituting the audiovisual lecture material online it was reported that there was less than 9% decrease in lecture attendance for those students responding to the questionnaire. Interestingly, the impression of the students was that the introduction of the audiovisual material online increased their performance on exams but in most cases the Tulane study could not observe an increase in grades for the students whether they used the online resources or not. But the perception for the students was overwhelmingly positive.

This article appears in Medical Sciences Educator Volume 21-1:21-26 and this volume is available at the IAMSE web page http://www.MedicalScienceEducator.org. Your IAMSE member ID / Password will be required to access subsequent issues of the journal.

Please remember the Medical Science Educator is a benefit of membership in IAMSE. You are encouraged to submit reports of your medical education scholarship (for example, research or innovations).

Take a look and contribute your ideas.

Dan Schulze
Publication Committee
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Medical Science Educator 21-1 Now Available

Dear Colleagues,

I hereby present to you the first issue of Medical Science Educator, The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators IAMSE. The journal is the successor of JIAMSE, our highly appreciated peer-reviewed journal for health science educators to publish their scholarly work helping to move medical science education forward.

In this issue you will find several regular articles on innovative teaching methods, as well as two meeting reports on educational meetings from within the last few months.

To download the issue - Medical Science Educator

To celebrate this first issue of Medical Science Educator, it is freely available for all who are interested in Health Science Education. I hope you will enjoy this first issue and that you and your colleagues will consider publishing your own scholarly work in our Journal for the benefit of all our readers.

Peter G.M. de Jong
Editor-in-Chief


IAMSE is an association of health professions educators who are interested in advancing their curriculum design and teaching skills. If you are not a member of IAMSE yet and would like to follow our Journal in the future, consider applying for membership (visit www.iamse.org ) or consider an individual Journal subscription(visit to apply www.MedicalScienceEducator.org/subscription.html )

Announcing the Lauch of "Medical Science Educator"

Dear IAMSE members,

Starting January 1st, 2011, IAMSE’s online peer reviewed journal JIAMSE changed its name to Medical Science Educator. The scope is still the same: offering all who teach in healthcare the most current information to succeed in their task by publishing scholarly activities, opinions, and resources in medical science education. The layout and charisma of Medical Science Educator will be a little different however, but we hope you like the newly improved look of the Journal.

The very first issue of Medical Science Educator will be published within the upcoming weeks, so pay attention to our mailings. Looking forward to welcoming you as a reader!

Peter de Jong
Editor-in-Chief