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}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101033
Claudia Pérez Acuña , José Luis Medina
{"title":"Analizar los rasgos definitorios de un currículo de formación de profesionales de la salud basados en interculturalidad de una facultad de medicina: analizado desde la fenomenografía","authors":"Claudia Pérez Acuña , José Luis Medina","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The integration of intercultural competence into the curriculum of health professionals is a crucial element in addressing the diverse health care needs of increasingly multicultural societies. The manuscript analyzes the defining features of a training curriculum for health professionals based on interculturality, highlighting the need for intercultural integration in the education curriculum for health careers.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Qualitative study with a phenomenographic approach. Twenty-seven interviews were carried out with students, teachers and authorities of a medical school, chosen by opinion sampling. Data analysis was carried out using the 7 steps for phenomenographic analysis described by Dahlgren and Fallsberg.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The analysis allowed us to distinguish that the defining traits are made up of 3 categories: a) Intercultural competence in the curriculum, b)Teaching-learning methodologies for intercultural competence and c) Challenges for the implementation of intercultural competence.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The importance of integrating intercultural competence in the training of health professionals, through specific modules, transversal, interdisciplinary approaches and generic competences is fundamental. The implementation of experiential and practical teaching methodologies, as well as the adaptation of institutional structures, are essential to overcome the challenges presented by teaching of this. By taking a comprehensive and proactive view in training students, institutions can help prepare future health professionals for an increasingly diverse world, promoting more inclusive and culturally competent care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101033"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551958","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.2025.101029
Paul Martín Herrera-Plasencia , Juana Rosmeri Salas-Huamaní , Oscar Mamani-Benito , Edison Effer Apaza-Tarqui , Josué Edison Turpo-Chaparro
{"title":"Adaptación y validación de una escala de fuentes de estrés en estudiantes peruanos de odontología","authors":"Paul Martín Herrera-Plasencia , Juana Rosmeri Salas-Huamaní , Oscar Mamani-Benito , Edison Effer Apaza-Tarqui , Josué Edison Turpo-Chaparro","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>At the higher education level, dental students face various academic, clinical and personal challenges that can generate high levels of stress, affecting their well-being and performance. Therefore, it is important to have validated instruments to identify and evaluate the main sources of stress.</div></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><div>Instrumental study with the voluntary participation of 173 students of both sexes of the stomatology course of a private university in Peru. The instrument to be validated was the Dental Environment Stress (DES), made up of 30 items distributed in 4 dimensions. Aiken's V coefficient was used to assess content-based validity, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess internal structure and Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for reliability.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>All items received a favorable evaluation by the judges (V > 0.70). When applying the CFA, adequate goodness-of-fit indices were obtained: χ² = 678.314, p < 0.001, gl = 399, χ²/df = 2.42, CFI = 0.991, TLI = 0.990, RMSEA = 0.052 and SRMR = 0.062, from which, it can be deduced that the model obtained a good fit and it fits well with the data. Finally, the reliability of the total scale and its dimensions was very good (ω > 0.80).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The sources of stress scale demonstrate adequate psychometric properties, therefore, it can be useful for the management of the training of qualified human resources in dentistry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 3","pages":"Article 101029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551956","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}
{"title":"Comparación de indicadores psicométricos en evaluaciones de opción múltiple entre estudiantes de Medicina Humana","authors":"Adriana Villa Villavicencio, Mariana Gómez Zamalloa, Diana Gabriela Ocsas Pinedo, César Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Multiple-choice tests are essential in educational assessment, especially in medicine. Peruvian studies show that 3 and 5 alternatives have similar effectiveness, but the optimal number of alternatives remains debated globally.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We conducted a cross-sectional study with students from the assignment “<em>Metodología de la Investigación Científica II</em>”, who took assessments with four and five alternatives. Difficulty and discrimination index were calculated using Excel and Jamovi. Kruskal-Wallis test and concordance correlation coefficient where used fot he analysis, and chi-square test was used to compare distributions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 55 students were included. The difficulty index showed similar medians for both 4 and 5 alternatives (p = 0.824), as did the discrimination index, which also did not identify differences between the medians (p = 0.654). The concordance values for the difficulty index indicated good consistency in both the midterm and final exams, with values of 0.925 (95% CI: 0.866 to 0.959) and 0.889 (95% CI: 0.822 to 0.932), respectively. The concordance for the discrimination index was low, with values of 0.318 (95% CI:<!--> <!-->−0.009 to 0.585) and<!--> <!-->−0.006 (95% CI:<!--> <!-->−0.247 to 0.259) for the midterm and final exams, respectively.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>We did not find significant differences in the difficulty and discrimination of questions with 4 and 5 options. We suggest the use of 4 alternative questions in objective exams in research courses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 101025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508702","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}
{"title":"Adaptación de cuestionario de creencias epistemológicas en carreras de enfermería y nutrición en contexto indígena","authors":"Fabiola Godoy-Leal , Flavio Muñoz-Troncoso , Enrique Riquelme","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Epistemological beliefs refer to how knowledge is understood, and in the university educational field, they allow the generation of educational strategies that facilitate the process of professional training in teaching and learning. There are instruments adapted to Western contexts, but not in contexts with indigenous knowledge. The objective is to adapt and validate the questionnaire of epistemological beliefs focused on the discipline of child health, in students and teachers of nursing and nutrition and dietetics in an indigenous context.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The questionnaire of epistemological beliefs focused on the Hofer discipline was used, which consists of 18 items in four dimensions. In the first instance, it was translated by a native English speaker, followed by a back-translation by experts, through linguistic validation. Reagents on the discipline of teaching child health in an indigenous context were incorporated into the instrument, which were defined by inter-judgments of experts. The instrument had 30 reagents and was applied as a self-administered survey to 258 students and teachers of nursing and nutrition and dietetics from various Universities in the Araucanía Region.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used for adaptation and validation. From the 5 dimensions that existed at the beginning, these were regrouped into 9 dimensions. Maintaining the 4 dimensions proposed by Hofer, 5 dimensions emerged that were specific to the context. Validation was carried out with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.823 and a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of 0.778 and significance of <<!--> <!-->0.001.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>An adapted and validated instrument of epistemological beliefs is obtained. In this way, an instrument capable of evaluating the epistemological beliefs of students and teachers is developed, which allows improving educational strategies in an indigenous context. These results promote a more socially and culturally inclusive education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 101027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508704","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 : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101026
Lourdes Lledó García , Gabriel de Arriba de la Fuente , Manuel Rodríguez Zapata
{"title":"Programa Mentor Clínico: aprendizaje-enseñanza de competencias y habilidades clínicas mediante la colaboración entre estudiantes y docentes de la carrera de Medicina","authors":"Lourdes Lledó García , Gabriel de Arriba de la Fuente , Manuel Rodríguez Zapata","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>During the academic year 2017–2018, an innovative mentoring program began to be developed in a clinical environment between two groups of students (3rd year compulsory participation and 6th year voluntary participation) and teaching staff, in the healthcare centers of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Alcalá. The objective of this work is to present this training program and its results.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Description of the structure and coordination of the program, and assessment of its development taking into account participation, activities, materials, evaluation and opinion surveys.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The average participation of 6th year students (volunteers) is 71.4%; all the activities and materials proposed in the program have been carried out; the academic results of 3rd year students are excellent, and the opinion surveys of both groups of students indicate a positive assessment of the training project.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The clinical mentor program facilitates the learning of clinical skills and competencies, as well as the integration of 3rd year students in a care environment, and in 6th year students the development of teaching and communication skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 101026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508703","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 : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101057
Joaquin Garcia-Estañ
{"title":"Documento: Hacia un nuevo marco para la formación médica en los estudios de grado","authors":"Joaquin Garcia-Estañ","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 101057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143907708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educacion MedicaPub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101049
{"title":"Documento de consenso Por un nuevo marco para la formación médica en los estudios de grado, 2025. Sociedad Española de Educación Médica y Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edumed.2025.101049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The teaching-learning of medicine is constantly changing due to the numerous variables that affect it. This fact is particularly important when we refer to the clinical teaching environment, the cornerstone of the training of the future doctor. Changes in regulations, in professional practice, in the functions of teachers, or in their selection, as well as in the expected learning outcomes require ordering and pointing out the factors that play in favour of and against a progressive improvement of medical training in undergraduate studies. In this document, and after reviewing these aspects, considerations and recommendations are formulated that can and should be considered in the immediate future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35317,"journal":{"name":"Educacion Medica","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 101049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143907709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}