Online CKD Education for Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows: Training in a New Era

Most medical students worldwide are using some form of social media platform to supplement their learning via file sharing and to stay up-to-date on medical events. Often, social media may blur the line between socialization and educational use, so it is important to be aware of how one is utilizing social media and how to remain professional. Research has yielded some troublesome themes of misconduct: drunken behaviour, violations of confidentiality and defamation of institutions. Because there is no universal policy to monitor online professionalism, there exists the potential for indiscretions to occur. It has been reported that misdemeanours can affect future residency placements and employment for medical students. Accordingly, studies suggest that educators need to recognize this new era of professionalism and adapt policies and reprimands to meet modern outlets where professionalism may be violated.

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Generational gaps in medical education: an exploratory qualitative study

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association ◽

10.47391/jpma.511 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Manabu Murakami ◽

Kotaro Matoba ◽

Hideki Hyodoh ◽

Makoto Takahashi ◽

Admin

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Work Life ◽

Generation Gap ◽

Focus Group Interviews ◽

Life Balance ◽

New Era ◽

Group Interviews ◽

One Year

This qualitative study aimed to explore medical students’ experience of generation gap in their interactions with senior teachers (aged ?55) in Japan. Focus group interviews were conducted with 28 medical students (20 to 30 years, mean age 22 years, standard deviation 2), classified as millennials, with only one year of studies since starting specialised courses for medicine. The participants were interviewed in groups of four, with each interview lasting 60 minutes. Topics covered included generation gap experienced in daily life and during their studies, and work-life balance issues. The discussions were recorded and transcribed, and content analysis was applied. Four specific influential generation-gap categories were identified — distinctive sociocultural backgrounds, more recent educational media tools and faster information dissemination speed, new-era values, and challenges in communication — that were consistent with findings from previous studies. Continuous...

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The New Era of Pass/Fail USMLE Step 1: Medical Students’ Call to Action

Academic Medicine ◽

10.1097/acm.0000000000003529 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 95 (9) ◽

pp. 1292-1292

Author(s):

Nicholas B. Conway ◽

Irfan A. Khan ◽

Joseph R. Geraghty

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Call To Action ◽

New Era ◽

Usmle Step 1 ◽

Usmle Step

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Medical students' and GP registrars' accommodation needs in the rural community: insight from a Victorian study

Australian Health Review ◽

10.1071/ah030092 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 92 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gil-Soo Han ◽

Ben Wearne ◽

Peter O'Meara ◽

Matthew McGrail ◽

Janice Chesters

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

General Practitioner ◽

Medical Students ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Community ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Training Programs ◽

Practice Staff ◽

New Era ◽

Significant Extension

Medical education in Australia is currently entering a new era, including support for the significant extension of medical students and general practitioner (GP)registrars' training programs in rural communities. This commitment to rural medical student and general practitioner recruitment and retention has made the provision of accommodation in rural communities a vital issue. This study has found that approximately half of all medical students on placement with rural GPs are currently accommodated with their GP supervisor or with other practice staff. This is a burden for many GPs and when the anticipated increase in the frequency and length of rural placements occurs what is currently a burden will become unsustainable. The changing gender and cultural demographics of medical students and rural general practitioners will also contribute to stresses on this accommodation system. It is important to have a systematic approach towards more appropriate and sustainable models of accommodation for both medical students and GP registrars.

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Unbiased estimation of particle number and sizes using the new stereological tools: the disector, the fractionator, the selector, and the nucleator — or just point-sampled intercepts

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100104200 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 428-429

Author(s):

H.J.G. Gundersen

Keyword(s):

Particle Number ◽

Small Distance ◽

Parallel Plane ◽

Unbiased Estimation ◽

Severe Problem ◽

New Era ◽

Size And Shape ◽

Distinct Property ◽

Sectioned Tissue

Previously, all stereological estimation of particle number and sizes were based on models and notoriously gave biased results, were very inefficient to use and difficult to justify. For all references to old methods and a direct comparison with unbiased methods see recent reviews.The publication in 1984 of the DISECTOR, the first unbiased stereological probe for sampling and counting 3—D objects irrespective of their size and shape, signalled the new era in stereology — and give rise to a number of remarkably simple and efficient techniques based on its distinct property: It is the only known way to obtain an unbiased sample of 3-D objects (cells, organelles, etc). The principle is simple: within a 2-D unbiased frame count or sample only cells which are not hit by a parallel plane at a known, small distance h.The area of the frame and h must be known, which might sometimes in itself be a problem, albeit usually a small one. A more severe problem may arise because these constants are known at the scale of the fixed, embedded and sectioned tissue which is often shrunken considerably.

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Drug Induced Changes in Cell Organelles

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100100299 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 110-111

Author(s):

Sarah A. Luse

Keyword(s):

Clinical Medicine ◽

Cell Organelles ◽

Riboflavin Deficiency ◽

Drug Induced ◽

New Era ◽

Health And Disease ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Cellular Pathology ◽

Induced Changes ◽

The Impact

In the mid-nineteenth century Virchow revolutionized pathology by introduction of the concept of “cellular pathology”. Today, a century later, this term has increasing significance in health and disease. We now are in the beginning of a new era in pathology, one which might well be termed “organelle pathology” or “subcellular pathology”. The impact of lysosomal diseases on clinical medicine exemplifies this role of pathology of organelles in elucidation of disease today.Another aspect of cell organelles of prime importance is their pathologic alteration by drugs, toxins, hormones and malnutrition. The sensitivity of cell organelles to minute alterations in their environment offers an accurate evaluation of the site of action of drugs in the study of both function and toxicity. Examples of mitochondrial lesions include the effect of DDD on the adrenal cortex, riboflavin deficiency on liver cells, elevated blood ammonia on the neuron and some 8-aminoquinolines on myocardium.

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