B Price Kerfoot

..To assess the efficacy of a "spaced-education" game as a method of continuing medical education (CME) among physicians across the globe...

..To investigate whether a spaced-education (SE) game can be an effective means of teaching core content to medical students and a reliable and valid method of assessing their knowledge...

..We investigated whether a spaced-education (SE) game can be both a reliable and valid method of assessing residents' knowledge and an effective means of teaching core content...

..We investigated the practitioner-level determinants of inappropriate PSA screening in 7 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals...

..What should every medical student know about urology upon graduating from medical school? To answer this question, we conducted a survey of key stakeholders in an effective medical student education in urology...

..This study is an assessment of the acceptability and short-term educational efficacy of interactive spaced education compared to web based teaching cases within the compact time frame of a clinical clerkship...

..Several studies have documented that physical examination knowledge and skills are limited among medical trainees...

..We investigated whether online spaced education could prospectively improve students' acquisition and retention of knowledge...

..I investigated whether the learning gains generated by the spaced education program could be detected 2 years later...

..To determine whether Interactive Spaced Education (ISE) is an effective and acceptable form of graduate and continuing medical education (GME/CME), using clinical practice guideline (CPG) education as an experimental system...

..To determine whether this system improves learning efficiency I performed a randomized trial to compare the learning efficiency of adaptive vs nonadaptive spaced education systems among surgery students at 2 medical schools...

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..Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is frequently performed, counter to clinical practice guidelines...

..The authors investigated whether online spaced education progress-testing (SEPT) could achieve both aims...

..We investigated whether In-Service Examination performance could identify chief residents who scored in the lowest quartile on the Qualifying Examination...

..Patient safety is a core educational topic for medical trainees...

..We investigated whether an online educational program based on spacing effect principles could significantly improve the acquisition and retention of medical knowledge...

..Medical schools are now adopting similar competency frameworks. We investigated whether a Web-based program could effectively teach and assess elements of systems-based practice...

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..This validated instrument has the potential to improve educational quality control at medical schools and facilitate the development of effective, evidence based teaching methods...

..Further data are needed to confirm the trend toward increased learning by males and elucidate its etiology. Scheduling changes have been implemented to address the inconsistencies across clinical sites...

..To investigate the impact of an adjuvant Web-based teaching program on medical students' learning during clinical rotations...

..The purpose of this study was to learn what difference this new approach made...

..Surgery residents teach medical students; feedback is one critical teaching skill. We investigated whether feedback given by surgery residents to students could be improved through an online spaced education program...

..Questions were raised as to how this technology might alter tutorial dynamics. Further research will be needed to investigate these pedagogical concerns...

..As a result, the Committee plans to continue cautiously (but optimistically) in the process of incorporating the teaching and evaluation of the clinical competencies in the program requirements...

..Has this trend continued during the last decade? If so, should we be concerned? We performed a national survey to provide an updated assessment of urological education at United States medical schools...

..To investigate the financial and educational costs of the urology residency interview process, we performed a survey of the applicants to the 2006 urology match...

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..We performed a survey of 2 cohorts of residency applicants to elucidate these determinants...

..With support of the K08 award I will also undertake mentored study and coursework in epidemiology, clinical trials, and assessment methodology. ..