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Programmatic Assessment (PA) relies on the integration of diverse data sources to deliver holistic feedback that supports student learning. However, the complexity and volume of assessment data can hinder efficient tracking and interpretation, challenging the implementation of PA's principles. To address these challenges, we developed the Learning Progress Dashboard (LPD) - a bespoke technological-enhanced solution and infrastructure designed for medical students. Built with an user-centric approach, the dashboard integrates previously siloed data systems, offering tailored interfaces for both students and faculty to facilitate data-informed learning strategies. Key lessons were the importance of breaking down data silos, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and employing gradual change management strategies to balance innovation with user acceptance.

Integrating theoretical knowledge with the practical skills essential for clinical practice remains a significant challenge in clinical education. Conventional teaching strategies often fall short in preparing clinicians to navigate the unpredictable, urgent, and multifaceted nature of clinical decision-making, while also providing limited support for the development of cognitive heuristics essential to forming independent clinical judgment. To address these challenges, we introduce vibe coding, a novel AI-assisted, no-code development approach that enables educators to create interactive, customisable learning simulations without programming expertise. By prioritising rapid prototyping and iterative refinement, vibe coding shifts the focus from technical constraints to pedagogical goals, allowing educators to generate code through intuitive, conversational prompts. We applied this approach to develop two distinct applications: the Differential Diagnosis Trainer (DDT), which enhances diagnostic reasoning through randomised clinical scenarios and AI-generated feedback, and the Insulin and Blood Sugar Simulation (IBSS), which offers real-time exploration of metabolic dynamics. Both tools were built using AI-powered no-code platforms, demonstrating significant improvements in accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. We encourage educators to transition from technology adopters to creators, leveraging AI-driven platforms to develop innovative, scalable, and personalised clinical simulations that transform learning experiences and ultimately enhance patient care.

Group decision-making is now common in medical education, often used for decisions that are both complex and high stakes, such as determining whether to promote or remediate a trainee. In this context, it is often assumed that group decision making is superior to that of an individual, resulting in high quality decision outcomes through the pooling of collective knowledge and experience. Yet, while groups can outperform individuals, this is not guaranteed. In fact, groups are vulnerable to several cognitive biases and process issues that individuals are not subject to and these can lead to poor quality decision outcomes if not managed. As educational leaders who participate in group decision-making, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure the quality of these complex and high-stakes decisions. In this article, we discuss both the potential benefits and vulnerabilities of group decision-making by introducing the concepts of wisdom of the crowd and groupthink, respectively. With this foundation, we then offer twelve evidence-based tips that can be easily implemented in educational group decision-making to minimize groupthink and leverage the wisdom of the crowd.

Emotions refer to conscious and subjectively experienced mental reactions that are often associated with physiological and behavioral changes. In the context of medical education research, emotions have a pervasive influence on how various types of information are perceived and processed, and therefore, can influence how research is designed, conducted, and implemented. While there is considerable research on how emotions affect learning, there is little guidance for researchers on how to recognize and potentially leverage emotions while conducting and disseminating medical education research. Emotions can be potentially beneficial for fostering a stronger connection to research, increasing motivation to conduct sensitive research, and enhancing reflexivity and rigor. In this guide, the authors describe how emotions may influence medical education research while assisting researchers on how to recognize and manage emotions during the research process. This guide builds upon existing research to provide a framework for emotional reflexivity in the context of medical education research.

Although the contribution of real patient encounters to medical education is well known, challenges such as a lack of suitable cases, patients not consenting to student involvement, physical space limitations that prevent every student from participating, the inability to replicate the same patient encounter, and reduced patient admissions to healthcare facilities during extraordinary periods are common obstacles that need to be addressed in clinical education. To overcome these challenges, video consultation (VC) recordings, which were made with the consent of patients having a telemedicine consultation, were collected as an archive of medical interview recordings covering a wide spectrum of pulmonary diseases. These recordings were watched by students in a classroom setting during clinical clerkships, with case discussions interspersed. This article, which also discusses the results of clinical clerkship evaluations, indicates that the use of pre-recorded VC sessions can be an effective tool for teaching good clinical practices through the ideal method of medical interviews, diagnostic approaches, evaluation of test results, communication skills with patients and their relatives, and addressing the socio-psychological aspects and social impacts of diseases. As an innovative attempt, sharing this process at an early stage of development may inspire enthusiasm for implementing this approach and open the field for further development.

Educators have implemented various strategies to build capacity for education scholarship, and often, these strategies focus on a specific set of interested individuals. We perceived a need for a strategy to engage a health professions education community with peer support. The purpose of these 12 tips is to describe an approach in place for nearly two decades that concurrently advances education scholarship and fosters a community that welcomes novices to experts. The approach is based on principles that not only build capacity and community but also stress the importance of alignment with the institution's missions. The tips guide setting up, conducting, and sustaining such an approach.

Introduction: Accreditation of medical education programs can be observed from different perspectives. Regulatory/accreditation agencies consider it vital to assure a certain level of quality. Other stakeholders may perceive the accreditation process as a negative experience, draining resources, and efforts. Although accreditation may improve the program's governance and administration, its direct or indirect impact on students must be further investigated. This study explores the relationship between the occurrence of accreditation site visits and student satisfaction rates at Avalon University School of Medicine.

Methods: A comparison study was conducted with retrospective satisfaction data from two accreditation cycles at AUSOM. We used the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and Other Health Professions (CAAM-HP) student surveys for data collection, and data from 2017, 2019, and 2022 were used. The response rate was 70% (n = 71), 72% (n = 47), and 60% (n = 56) for basic science students and 80% (n = 111), 82% (n = 115), and 70% (n = 76) for clinical students in 2017, 2019, and 2022, respectively. The survey for basic sciences students included 37 questions/items, and the survey for clinical students included 39 questions/items. The responses for the questionnaire were on the five-point Likert scale. The retrospective data were evaluated using the unpaired Wilcoxon-rank sum test.

Results: The ratings for the basic science students' survey increased from 2017 to 2019 (first accreditation cycle) only for 11 items/questions and they were increased from 2019 to 2022 for all items/questions. The ratings for clinical science students' surveys increased from 2017 to 2019 (the first accreditation cycle) for all items/questions with a statistically significant p-value. They increased for 28 questions/items from 2019 to 2022, and two items (availability and adequacy of career counseling) showed statistically significant p-values.

Conclusions: The pre-accreditation preparation and the self-evaluation process while correcting the program's deficiencies are essential triggers for the quality improvement process associated with accreditation.

From dual process to a family of theories known collectively as situativity, both micro and macro theories of cognition inform our current understanding of clinical reasoning (CR) and error. CR is a complex process that occurs in a complex environment, and a nuanced, expansive, integrated model of these theories is necessary to fully understand how CR is performed in the present day and in the future. In this perspective, we present these individual theories along with figures and descriptive cases for purposes of comparison before exploring the implications of a transtheoretical model of these theories for teaching, assessment, and research in CR and error.