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Is it necessary to submit your work to journals listed in Web of Science rather than indexed in PubMed, or Scopus? Will publication in journals with impact factor determine the influence of your...
07 July 2018 6,545 13 View
With the current availability easy access to information online, students in higher education and school education are more in favour of checking online resources such as those on Wikipedia or...
07 July 2018 7,685 9 View
What strategies do you have at your school to receive feedback from students? What methods to use to receive feedback from students? Do you use formal and non-formal approaches? How do you handle...
06 June 2018 7,287 14 View
Rejection of a submitted publication is not good news, particularly for junior researchers such as PhD students. The worst is when you receive two rejections in a week. How did you handle such...
06 June 2018 1,984 8 View
Many schools have moved to an outcome-based curriculum, my question is, based on the experience you have at your school, what are the advantages and disadvantages of an outcome-based curriculum?
06 June 2018 8,358 6 View
In the second tutorial in PBL students discuss their learning issues as a group so that they comprehend the different aspects related to the case. However, in some schools students distribute...
06 June 2018 8,022 4 View
If your school has a PBL program, what type of assessment do you have in place to assess students in this component? Do you use more than one tool? And does this assessment contribute to the...
06 June 2018 6,384 5 View
During interaction with students in small groups in PBL we may face challenging situations, do you recall any challenging situation that you have faced as a tutor, would you like to share this...
06 June 2018 4,843 1 View
Not just in tutorial one, where students need to identify problems, generate hypothesees and rank each hypotheses, but in tutorial two, some students prepare their learning issues, however they...
06 June 2018 2,940 3 View
Sometimes tutors face a conflict with one of the students, mainly when teaching a graduate student, how did you handle such situation? Are their educational principles behind the actions you have...
06 June 2018 9,383 0 View
With the changes introduced in medical curricula, many schools have reduced or omitted "dissection" and replaced it with other teaching and learning means such as computer-aided programs, 3-D...
06 June 2018 10,158 8 View
I see scientists on ResearchGate using Wikipedia as an accurate resource to justify their views. Is Wikipedia accurate and scientifically correct and can be cited by scientists?
04 April 2018 3,041 2 View
I am working on Gephi to develop a visualising complex network of citations and authors connections. Dimensions was recommended to be used to extract data on references/citations into Excel...
04 April 2018 6,916 12 View
How would you introduce a successful self-regulated program in your school? What exactly makes a successful self-directed program? What factors would you consider in your structure? Any tips or...
03 March 2018 5,460 0 View
New knowledge showed that there are foods that may cause risks to pregnant women and the fetus? What are these foods and the basis for avoiding eating them? Are you teaching this area in the...
03 March 2018 6,900 0 View
Professionalism, as it is the case in medical and health sciences education, addresses professional attitudes and behaviors that reflect the quality of patient-doctor relationship as endorsed by...
11 November 2017 1,036 0 View
Professionalism is not just about knowledge. It is central in professionalism to change attitude, behavior and believes to become aligned with the profession and enable learners to become...
11 November 2017 574 0 View
What exactly makes a great teacher? Is it his/her competency and knowledge about up-to-date details in the field, or is it the interpersonal skills, the caring and professional attitude? What...
11 November 2017 3,345 1 View
In what way can social science theories contribute to medical education research? According to Frank (2013), "the social science theory is what allows us to connect research to the fate of our...
11 November 2017 2,047 0 View
Are we after changes in education because of trends, people change, cultural change, or technology changes? Is it the available evidence that controls the decision to change, or is it the desire...
11 November 2017 9,428 0 View
Most medical curricula focus on knowledge in biomedical and clinical sciences with specific emphasis on clinical skills in each body system. However, will these content make "good doctors"? The...
11 November 2017 1,443 0 View
How do we determine misconceptions in the student's knowledge? Misconceptions in student's knowledge in basic biomedical sciences such as physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, and...
11 November 2017 7,845 1 View
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been used in medical and health-related education for over 40 years. Team-based Learning (TBL) has been tried in some schools over the last 10-15 years, one would...
10 October 2017 7,101 3 View
How can we ensure that examinations are valid and reliable? Will training of the staff on writing examination questions on its own provide that evidence? Are validity and reliability measurements...
10 October 2017 2,397 4 View
Peer-review plays a crucial role in the scientific communities; in publishing research papers, in grant applications, and in academic promotion. The whole academic process is centered around...
03 March 2017 5,759 4 View
Do you think that gender balance is always fulfilled in peer review process? Do you think that gender imbalance in peer review could affect the outcomes? Is there evidence from research?
01 January 1970 1,421 0 View
What do you think? Should we call alcohol a drug?
01 January 1970 3,842 3 View
Doctors at NYU are thinking that Facebook could help in speeding up the processing of MRI images, with all the experiences and facilities they have, do you think that Facebook should be involved...
01 January 1970 3,097 1 View
What do you think the future of scientific publishing? Do you think that all journals will move to open access journals? or do you think open access journals will gradually disappear? What is the...
01 January 1970 3,382 4 View
Are there any international cooperation bodies to support researchers or open access journals with impact factor? Do these plans solve concerns about processing fees?
01 January 1970 4,006 2 View
Looking on how students in pharmacy relate their knowledge to disease stage or how they relate mechanisms of action of drugs, I discovered that these areas are not well-addressed. Such design that...
01 January 1970 6,733 11 View
Is it one question only, or some projects may have 3 related research questions covered in the study? Should we limit our guidelines to ONLY ONE research question or should we say not to be more...
01 January 1970 2,583 1 View
Many schools claim that there curriculum is competency-based, but when you closely examine their structure you discover it is not related or even touching on competency. What is competency-based...
01 January 1970 2,373 23 View
What is your experience with blended curriculum? what are the key lessons did you learn that you might share?
01 January 1970 3,673 16 View
Are you a peer reviewer to medical or scientific journals? What did you learn most from this job?
01 January 1970 7,200 0 View
What do you do to teach students about plagiarism? How important is teaching students about plagiarism in your school? What mechanisms do you use to assess this area and ensure that students are...
01 January 1970 7,640 11 View
I hear people talking about micro-teaching, but what are the components of micro-teaching. If there is micro-teaching, there must be macro-teaching and meso-teaching. I wonder why people ignore...
01 January 1970 5,380 9 View
Should we teach professionalism as a course on its own? The trouble we still see in medical and health-related professions is teaching professionalism as a separate course on its own, not...
01 January 1970 7,554 12 View
In medical schools, how much anatomy should we teach? What are the boundaries and guidelines that help us in drawing a line? Is teaching anatomy about quantity or quality of what we want students...
01 January 1970 549 12 View
Professionalism is not just about pieces of information or definitions; it is about change in attitudes and behaviours. How can we teach professionalism to achieve such change? What are the...
01 January 1970 6,473 31 View
The image shows surgical and gynaecological instruments used by ancient Egyptians over 3000-5000 years BC. It explains how advanced medicine at that time, scalpels, forceps, curettes were known...
01 January 1970 8,407 17 View
The journal of "Health Professions Education" is published by Elsevier and is a leading journal in the field. The journal is peer-reviewed under the responsibility of AMEEMR: the Association for...
01 January 1970 8,839 3 View
Have you used Azer's paper (enclosed) in facilitating the discussion of mechanisms in PBL? What was your experience and what was the experience of your students? I lookforward to learn from you...
01 January 1970 2,489 4 View
Do you know the article with the highest citation numbers across all field listed in the Web of Science? Do you think a Nobel Price Laureate wrote it? Do you think it is about the discovery of a...
01 January 1970 6,002 4 View
