Samy Azer

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How do you handle COVID-19 suspected cases at your hospital?

Watch the video. It is convenient and useful. The video is created by Joseph Minardi, MD (From WVM Medicine Centre, USA) What did you learn? Do you have anything different that you do and can...

20 March 2020 7,899 4 View

How important is students' feedback in making changes/adjustment in the curriculum?

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...

09 June 2018 7,468 14 View

Is there any evidence that Team-Based Learning has better impact on students’ learning compared to other methods such as Problem-Based Learning?

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...

27 October 2017 5,314 4 View

What are the limitations of the p-value?

The use of p-value in statistics to define significant differences between groups is common in research. My question is related to limitation of dependance of research on the p-value in such...

16 March 2017 7,611 16 View

What is the future of scientific publishing?

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 5,828 3 View

What are the implications of doctors protesting for climate actions?

Doctors demonstrating because of environmental actions are receiving harsh responses as per a report published in BMJ today. What are your views about this issue? Is it ethical? Is it...

01 January 1970 9,326 3 View

What is competency-based curriculum?

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 6,285 31 View

Should History of Medicine be taught in medical curricula?

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 6,584 22 View

Have you used Azer's paper in facilitating the discussion of mechanisms in PBL?

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 4,565 3 View

What is micro-teaching?

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 6,917 9 View

What are the best methods to teach professionalism?

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 6,940 31 View

Should we teach professionalism as a course on its own?

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 7,953 12 View

Are there any solutions for current concerns about costs of publication?

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 4,350 2 View

What would you do with "Do not know" responses in a questionnaire?

In a questionnaire-based study, where most questions are followed with a Likert scale from 1 to 5, how would you present your findings for responses to the item "do not know"? In some questions,...

01 January 1970 1,378 5 View

Is there is a place to environmental change in the medical curriculum?

With the ongoing global changes in the climate, several schools are including environment changes effects on health and disease. Are you giving a place in the curriculum to this critical area?

01 January 1970 5,885 8 View

Invitation from Professor Samy Azer and Professor Anthony Guerrero - BMC Medical Education

Call for Papers Artificial Intelligence in Medical and Professional Health Education We invite academics and clinicians in medicine and professional health educators to submit their work on this...

01 January 1970 9,632 3 View

Mobile Phones Injuries

The recent issue of BMJ raised concerns about injuries caused by using mobile phones during driving, "Not quite. Researchers are more concerned with what injuries you might pick up from using your...

01 January 1970 8,306 1 View

Call for Papers - BMC Medical Education

Theme: Artificial Intelligence in Medical and Professional Health Education Please read details about this special issue and submission in the attachment We look forward to reading your...

01 January 1970 975 0 View

Would you be interested in contributing?

Dear Gastroenterologists, Oncologists, and Scientists As a Guest Editor forJoVE, I am organizing a Methods Collection titled “Advanced methods in studying colorectal...

01 January 1970 2,872 1 View

What are the roles of a PBL tutor?

This is an invitation to my training workshop. I am conducting a workshop on becoming a PBL facilitator. I would like to hear from you about the facilitation skills of a PBL tutor. What are these...

01 January 1970 6,570 2 View