News Practicum Script

Harvard, Oxford, and Imperial College London join the Practicum Script project for medical students

Three of the best medical schools participate in the pilot research of our clinical reasoning training simulator for students.

AMEE 2019 will include two Practicum studies and provide preliminary results about the project for students

We will be presenting one poster about the project for students and one oral communication about how to improve the script concordance test in Vienna.

Simulation and workplace-based assessments combine to optimize the evaluation of clinical reasoning

Combining different forms of evaluation is ideal to ensure competence in clinical reasoning.

Prof Amir H. Sam, leader of the Practicum Script application project for students, at ASME 2019: “In life, nothing is black or white.”

Preamble of the pilot application of Practicum Script for medical students at ASME 2019.

Practicum Script cases are now available in audio

Converting text to voice is a mobility solution for those who lack time to stop in front of the computer screen and prefer to combine reading with other tasks.

20 cases for Practicum Script’s application to medical students have already been created

Now the project targets the validation of the clinical cases by a panel of referees consisting of experts in Internal Medicine from most participating medical schools.

The Complutense University of Madrid incorporates Practicum Script in its medical curriculum

Practicum Script will arrive in the classroom next year and will be part of the curriculum of the Complutense University of Madrid and also of the Francisco de Vitoria.

“Systems thinking says being human we’re going to have decision-making problems”

Prof Dr Lucian Leape is an American health policy analyst whose vast research has focused on error prevention. Intrigued? Check out what he has to say...

Visual thinking (II): compartmentalized knowledge, activation of the anterior cingulate, and color

This second article focuses on the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive processes of information processing, response planning and decision making.