Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Guides
BEME GUIDES COMING SOON
No 5 - Predictive values of measurements obtained in medical schools and future performance in medical practice
No 7 - Systematic review of the literature on physician assessment, feedback and performance
No 8 - A Systematic Review of Faculty Development Initiatives Designed to Improve Teaching Effectiveness in Medical Education
BEME Guide 1
Best Evidence Medical Education
R M Harden, J Grant and I R Hart
ISBN: 978-1-903934-21-4
Date: 1999
Summary: Reflecting the development of evidence-based medicine, there is a move from opinion-based towards evidence-based teaching. The first guide in this new series describes how in best evidence medical education the teacher comes to a professional judgement about his/her teaching practice in the light of the evidence available. Six dimensions (the QUESTS dimensions) are described for evaluating the evidence - quality, utility, extent, strength, target and setting. Two checklists are included for use by the teacher, one for research or evaluation evidence and the other for evidence based on experience, opinion or theory.
A useful guide for all teachers and researchers in medical education.
Cost: £6.00 or Euros 8. Order Publications Online
BEME Guide 2
Teaching and learning communication skills in medicine: a review with quality grading of articles
Knut Aspegren
ISBN: 978-1-903934-22-2
Date: 1999
Summary: The second guide in this new series gives the results of a systematic literature search for articles about communication skills teaching and learning in medicine. 180 pertinent articles were identified. These have been graded into high, medium and low quality and included 31 randomised studies. The guide summarises the evidence as to whether communication skills can be taught, who should teach them, what methods of approaches are most effective and when they should be taught. Interesting additional findings emerged, e.g. men are slower learners of communication skills than women. An important guide for all concerned with planning or delivering clinical teaching.
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BEME Guide 3
Systematic searching for evidence in medical education
Alex Haig and Marshall Dozier
ISBN: 978-1-903934-27-3
Date: 2003
Summary: This guide outlines the unique challenges searching for evidence in medical education presents, and how these can be overcome effectively. All sources of evidence are comprehensively covered, including the range of relevant databases, websites and internet searching, and the grey literature. The guide will be a useful starting point for anyone who wants to undertake a review of the literature in the area of medical or health care professions education.
Cost: £8.00 or Euros 10. Order Publications Online
BEME Guide 4
Features and uses of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning
S Barry Issenberg, William C McGaghie, Emil R Petrusa, David Lee Gordon and Ross J Scalese
ISBN: 978-1-903934-29X
Date: 2005
Summary: This report is the first BEME systematic review of the research evidence about the features and use of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning. The goal was to cover the scientific literature comprehensively, with detail and rigor. The intent was to paint an objective portrait of the current state of knowledge about high-fidelity simulation in medical education and to begin to set an agenda for continued evaluation research.
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BEME Guide 5
Predictive values of measurements obtained in medical schools and future performance in medical practice
H Hamdy, K Prasad, M B Anderson, A Scherpbier, R Williams, R Zwierstra and H Cuddihy
ISBN: 978-1-903934-30-3
Date: Coming Soon
Summary: Awaited
BEME Guide 6
How can experience in clinical and community settings contribute to early medical education?
T Dornan, S Littlewood, S A Margolis, A Scherpbier, J Spencer and V Ypinazar
ISBN: 978-1-903934-31-1
Date: 2006
Summary: This systematic review of the evidence available in the literature describes how early experience helps medical students to socialise to their chosen profession. Early experience helps them acquire a range of subject matter and makes their learning more real and relevant. It has potential benefits for a range of stakeholders, and can influence career choices.
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BEME Guide 7
Systematic review of the literature on physician assessment, feedback and performance
J Veloski, J R Boex, M J Grasberger, A Evans and D B Wolfson
ISBN: 978-1-903934-32-X
Date: Coming Soon
Summary: Awaited
BEME Guide 8
A Systematic Review of Faculty Development Initiatives Designed to Improve Teaching Effectiveness in Medical Education
Yvonne Steinert, Karen Mann, Angel Centeno, Diana Dolmans, John Spencer, Mark Gelula and David Prideaux
ISBN: 978-1-903934-2
Date: Coming Soon
Summary: Awaited
BEME Guide 9
A best evidence systematic review of interprofessional education
M Hammick, D Freeth, I Koppel, S Reeves, H Barr
ISBN: 978-1-903934-37-0
Date:
Summary: Evidence to support the proposition that learning together will help practitioners and agencies work better together remains limited and thinly spread. This review identified, collated, analysed and synthesised the best available contemporary evidence from 21 of the strongest evaluations of IPE to inform the above proposition. In this way we sought to help shape future interprofessional education and maximise the potential for interprofessional learning to contribute to collaborate practice and better care.
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BEME Guide 10
The effectiveness of self-assessment on the identification of learner needs, learner activity, and impact on clinical practice
Iain Colthart, Gellisse Bagnall, Alison Evans, Helen Allbutt, Alex Haig, Jan Illing and Brian McKinstry
ISBN: 978-1-903934-49-4
Date: Coming Soon
Summary: Awaited
BEME Guide 11
The educational effects of portfolios on undergraduate student learning: a Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) systematic review
Sharon Buckley, Jamie Coleman, Ian Davison, Khalid Khan, Javier Zamora, Sadia Malick, David Morely, David Pollard, Tamasine Ashcroft, Celia Popovic, Jayne Sayers
ISBN: 978-1-903934-46-3
Date: 2009
Summary: In recent years, the use of portfolios as learning and assessment tools has become more widespread across the range of health professions. Whilst a growing body of literature has accompanied these trends, there is no clear collated summary of the evidence for the educational effects of the use of portfolios in undergraduate education. This systematic review is the result of work to provide such a summary.
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BEME Guide 12
The effectiveness of portfolios for post-graduate assessment and education
Claire Tochel, Alex Haig, Anne Hesketh, Ann Cadzow, Karen Beggs, Iain Colthart and Heather Peacock
ISBN: 978-1-903934-47-0
Date:
Summary: Portfolios in post-graduate healthcare education are used to support reflective practice, deliver summative assessment, aid knowledge management processes and are seen as a key connection between learning at organisational and individual levels. This systematic review draws together the evidence on the effectiveness of portfolios across postgraduate healthcare and examines the implications of portfolios migrating from paper to an electronic medium across all professional settings.
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