Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-04-05DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101044
Silvia Garrido , Beatriz Losa , María Caballero , Alexandra Alvarez , Genny Raffaeli , Giacomo Cavallaro , Maria-Lorella Gianni , Felipe Garrido
{"title":"A survey on the perception of health degree students on the use of Instagram and TikTok as learning tools","authors":"Silvia Garrido , Beatriz Losa , María Caballero , Alexandra Alvarez , Genny Raffaeli , Giacomo Cavallaro , Maria-Lorella Gianni , Felipe Garrido","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Limited academic literature has reviewed the usefulness of Instagram and TikTok, which degree students extensively use. Considering this gap, our research group has undertaken a study aimed at elucidating the perspectives of health sciences university students regarding the referred social media as learning tools.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An online 23-question survey was distributed to undergraduate health sciences degree students across three Spanish universities. The questions were primarily related to the general usage of social media within the university educational environment, but they focused on Instagram and TikTok.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Students identified Instagram (68%) and YouTube (39%) as the most comfortable social networks for learning. Seventy-five percent of students indicated that they followed Instagram accounts about medicine or nursing, with 47% of these accounts lacking apparent university affiliations. One in three students followed TikTok accounts associated with medicine or nursing, with 63% of these accounts appearing to be non-university affiliated.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Medical and nursing students are interested in seeking practical supplementary learning content from non-academic sources, particularly on the newest social networks like Instagram and TikTok. Improving the understanding of such content by university faculty can improve the guidance offered to students of such information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101044"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143776658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101040
Susan Peña , Carlos Martinez-Santander , Veronica Cantos-Reyes , Mireya Frausto Rojas
{"title":"Active methodologies and didactic techniques in medical education: A systematic review","authors":"Susan Peña , Carlos Martinez-Santander , Veronica Cantos-Reyes , Mireya Frausto Rojas","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>For the teaching-learning process in medicine, knowing the effectiveness of active methods and didactic techniques is important to improve and guarantee competent professionals in their field.</div></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><div>The PRISMA 2020 guide was used to carry out this systematic review, identifying and analyzing the active methodologies used in the teaching-learning process of the different subjects in the medical sciences.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>After searching scientific databases, 18 studies that met the research objectives were selected, allowing the active methodologies used in the teaching-learning process to be identified.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Active methodologies complement the traditional methodology, allowing more dynamic learning with long-term knowledge retention, thus significantly improving grades and motivating students and teachers to commit to this process.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions and future work</h3><div>In the effective teaching of medicine, using active and traditional methodologies is important because they promote the active participation of students and teachers, resulting in long-term and significant learning. A detailed analysis of active methods and their effective integration with traditional methods is needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101040"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101042
Diana Matías-Pérez, Iván Antonio García-Montalvo
{"title":"Suicidal ideation and mental health instability: A silent crisis in medical students","authors":"Diana Matías-Pérez, Iván Antonio García-Montalvo","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101038
Carlos Milton Manrique Rabelo
{"title":"Discriminación y maltrato psicológico en la universidad: la autoestima como recurso para afrontarlos","authors":"Carlos Milton Manrique Rabelo","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101041
María Martínez-García , Griselda Gonzalez-Caminal , Carmen Gomar-Sancho
{"title":"Análisis cuantitativo de las competencias de comunicación y seguridad del paciente incluidas en un programa de simulación clínica del grado de Medicina","authors":"María Martínez-García , Griselda Gonzalez-Caminal , Carmen Gomar-Sancho","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Patient safety (PS) and communication are transversal competencies to be acquired by medical students. International guidelines and consensus define communication and PS competences. The aim of this study was to detect the communication and PS skills taught in the clinical simulation sessions of the different subjects in the Medicine degree at the University of Vic – University of Central Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Spain.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>The guides of the clinical simulation sessions of the 6 courses of the degree of the academic year 2023–2024 were reviewed. The present components of PS and communication dictated in the <em>WHO Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools</em> and in the <em>Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish consensus on a core communication curriculum for undergraduate medical education</em> were identified en the simulation guides. Their review was carried out independently by two reviewers. Descriptive statistics were performed.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The guides of 79 simulation sessions were analyzed. Communication competencies are frequently taught focused in patients and families. Patient safety competencies are scarce, the most frequent being medication related. Competencies are distributed throughout the degree years but are concentrated in the last three clinical years.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Communication competencies are acceptably present in the simulation program, but not the PS which need to be improved. This study analyses only the clinical simulation program and does not represent the full exposure of students to these transversal competences through other teaching methodologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101041"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101039
Luis Felipe León Madero , Valentina Martínez Montoya , Franahid Josefina D'silva Signe
{"title":"Research training: Validating a key questionnaire on systematic reviews and meta-analysis for medical genetics residents in Mexico","authors":"Luis Felipe León Madero , Valentina Martínez Montoya , Franahid Josefina D'silva Signe","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are critical in Evidence-Based Medicine, representing the highest level of scientific evidence. Despite the inclusion of Research Methodology and Statistics in medical curricula, the publication rate among residents remains low. This study focuses on residents in the Medical Genetics specialty in Mexico City, illustrating challenges faced in a developing country.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, from the perspective of the Curriculum Action Research movement, the study surveyed 25 residents from eight hospitals in Mexico City. The information was collected using the proposed evaluation instrument, which was modified for validation.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In this study, we showed that 64% had published work, but only 12.5% had completed systematic reviews. A significant proportion perceived not receiving formal training in Research Methodology (4%) or Statistics (52%). Key barriers identified were lack of time (56%), insufficient research experience (46%), cost or lack of resources (44%), and the administrative procedures required being very complicated (44%). The study developed and validated a questionnaire to assess knowledge, which demonstrated good reliability and construct validity with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.85, a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of 0.505 and a significant Bartlett's test of sphericity (p<!--> <!--><<!--> <!-->0.0001).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The findings highlight substantial gaps in practical research skills and suggest that the current curriculum inadequately integrates Research Methodology and Statistics. This underscores the need for more effective incorporation of these subjects into training programs to enhance residents' research capabilities. Addressing these gaps could improve publication rates and overall research output among medical residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 4","pages":"Article 101039"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143687739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101030
Alberto Guevara Tirado
{"title":"Factores motivacionales asociados a la satisfacción académica en estudiantes de primer año de Medicina","authors":"Alberto Guevara Tirado","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Medical students' academic satisfaction may be affected by preconceived expectations and emotional projections about the career. The objective was to analyze the motivational factors associated with academic satisfaction with the human medicine career in Argentine students in their first year of study.</div></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><div>Analytical and cross-sectional study of the national survey of medical students, Argentina, which included 1.141 first-year medical students. Averages were compared and the decision tree was used using chi-square automatic interaction detector (CHAID), diagnostic performance tests, Cramer's V coefficient and Odds Ratio.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The CHAID tree detected the main variable associated with low academic satisfaction: fulfilling your dreams. The association between motivation to fulfill their dreams and academic satisfaction was moderate (V = 1.39; <em>p</em> < 0.001). Students without motivation to fulfill their dreams had low academic satisfaction 2.02 times more often than students with motivation to fulfill their dreams (OR = 2.02; IC 95 % = 1.47–2.78). Specificity 79 % and negative predictive value 83 %. According to the positive likelihood test, students who were not motivated to fulfill their dreams had a 1.98 times greater probability of low academic satisfaction than students who were motivated (LR + =<!--> <!-->1.98; IC 95 % = 1.74–2.07).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Low motivation to fulfill their dreams was associated with low academic satisfaction in first-year medical students. It is necessary to reinforce vocational programs in the school stage, raising students' awareness about the appropriate aptitudes and motivations to pursue the medical profession.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101034
K. Ait Moussa , S. Selmaoui , N. Ouzennou
{"title":"Learning strategies in nursing sciences: Analysis of gender disparities in a Moroccan educational context","authors":"K. Ait Moussa , S. Selmaoui , N. Ouzennou","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The 2013 reform of the nursing education system in Morocco, which introduced the License-Master-Doctorate framework and the establishment of Higher Institutes of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques (ISPITS), aimed to modernize higher education and enhance nursing practices. This study examines gender differences in learning strategies among nursing students, considering Morocco's cultural specificities.</div></div><div><h3>Subjects and methods</h3><div>An exploratory study was conducted with 625 first-year students enrolled in three ISPITS in the Marrakech-Safi region during the first semester of the 2022–2023 academic year. Data were collected using the “Mes Outils de Travail Intellectuel” questionnaire, adapted to the Moroccan context. Statistical analyses employed non-parametric tests, including the Mann–Whitney U test for gender comparisons, and a generalized linear model to control for confounding variables such as the institution of origin and field of study.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The findings indicate an overall homogeneity between genders in the use of cognitive, metacognitive, and affective tools, with a statistically significant but weak difference in the “Structuring-Reorganization” dimension (p = 0.044, small effect size).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The study highlights a general equity in learning strategies, challenging gender stereotypes. However, the overrepresentation of women (78.2%) in the sample limits the analysis of male behaviors. These findings emphasize the need for inclusive pedagogies tailored to local specificities and mixed-method approaches to further explore sociocultural and educational dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101034"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101031
Mónica Regalado Chamorro , Aldo Medina Gamero
{"title":"Neurofobia en la formación médica: retos y estrategias","authors":"Mónica Regalado Chamorro , Aldo Medina Gamero","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101032
Aldo Medina Gamero
{"title":"Empatía, manejo del estrés y desafíos académicos en la educación médica","authors":"Aldo Medina Gamero","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101032"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}