Archives: Journal Club

COMSEP Journal Club July 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Jon Gold and Randy Rockney Near Peers are No Worse Than Faculty (And Maybe Better!) Student Perception of Case-based Teaching by Near-Peers and Faculty during the Internal Medicine Clerkship:  A Noninferiority Study.  Ahmad … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club June 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Jon Gold and Randy Rockney   You can observe a lot just by watching   What happens under the flag of direct observation, and how that matters: A qualitative study in general … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club May 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Jon Gold and Randy Rockney   The Emotional Rollercoaster of the Unmatched Student Journey of candidates who were unmatched in the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS): A phenomenology study Okoniewska B, Ladha … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club April 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Jon Gold and Randy Rockney   Working on Feedback An Educational Intervention to Increase Student Engagement in Feedback.  McGinness HT,  Caldwell P, Gunasekera H, Scott KM.  Medical Teacher 2020; 42(11): 1289-1297. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1804055 … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club March 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Randy Rockney and Jon Gold   The value of deliberate reflection Exploring mechanisms underlying learning from deliberate reflection: An experimental study. Ribeiro LMC, Mamede S, de Brito EM, Moura AS, de Faria RMD, Schmidt HG.. Med Educ. 2021;55:404–412. https://doi.org/10.1111/ medu.14410 Reviewed … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club February 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Randy Rockney and Jon Gold   Medical Student Mistreatment: The Students’ Perspectives Why do few medical students report their experiences of mistreatment to administration? Bell A, Cavanagh A, Connelly CE, Walsh A, … Continued

COMSEP Journal Club January 2021 Editors: Karen Forbes, Randy Rockney, and Jon Gold   Student life without honors grades Seligman L, Abdullahi A, Teherani A, Hauer K. From Grading to Assessment for Learning: A Qualitative Study of Student Perceptions Surrounding … Continued

  COMSEP Journal Club December 2020 Editors: Jon Gold, Karen Forbes, and Randy Rockney   Grading and Its Meaning Are we measuring what matters?  How student and clerkship characteristics influence clinical grading.  Ingrams MA, Pearman JL, Estrada CA, Zinski A, Williams … Continued

Who knows best how to assess? How to assess? Perceptions and preferences of undergraduate medical students concerning traditional assessment methods. Holzinger A, Lettner S, Steiner-Hofbauer V, Capan Melser M. BMC Medical Education. 2020;20(1):1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02239-6 Reviewed by: Zachary Blatman and Angela … Continued

Spoiler alert—it gets worse Natural history of burnout, stress and fatigue in a pediatric resident cohort over three years. Koressel L, Groothuis E, Tanz R, Palac H, Sanguino S. Medical Education Online (2020). DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2020.1815386     Reviewed by Dana … Continued