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Article ; Online: Blurring of vision with malaise.

Zafar, Mansoor / Randhawa, Ratan Singh / Peacock-Young, Barnaby / Eldebri, Reem / Dashora, Umesh

The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

2021 Volume 51, Issue 1, Page(s) 49–52

Abstract: We present the case of a 56-year-old female brought to the Emergency Department via routine ambulance transport with complaints of blurred vision and malaise. She was screened by ambulance crew using the facial arm speech time (FAST) tool and a basic top- ...

Abstract	We present the case of a 56-year-old female brought to the Emergency Department via routine ambulance transport with complaints of blurred vision and malaise. She was screened by ambulance crew using the facial arm speech time (FAST) tool and a basic top-to-toe assessment as per current routine. The examining practitioner performed a thorough assessment of the patient, revisiting the initial examination findings, and establishing new clinical features of visual field deficit and pan-systolic murmur. The likely diagnosis of septic emboli or stroke with infective endocarditis was identified through the power of rigorous history taking and examination. These were then supported by investigation with blood tests and imaging. This prompted discussion with a tertiary centre and subsequent transfer for further investigation and management. The patient's journey shows that there may indeed be a role for a more comprehensive (but not exhaustive) initial screening from ambulance services in order to help appropriately stream specific patients to hospital in a timelier manner (to meet the thrombolysis window). This case supports the addition of V (visual fields) to the FAST screening tool.
MeSH term(s)	Ambulances ; Arm ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Endocarditis ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Stroke
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-04-20
Publishing country	Scotland
Document type	Case Reports
ZDB-ID	2866363-9
ISSN	2042-8189 ; 0953-0932
ISSN (online)	2042-8189
ISSN	0953-0932
DOI	10.4997/JRCPE.2021.112
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Article ; Online: An exploration of the attitudes and views of general practitioners on the use of video consultations in a primary healthcare setting: a qualitative pilot study.

Randhawa, Ratan S / Chandan, Joht S / Thomas, Tom / Singh, Surinder

Primary health care research & development

2018 Volume 20, Page(s) e5

Abstract: Background: In 2014, in the United Kingdom, the government made a commitment to spend £3.6 million on the introduction of Skype video calling consultations in general practice, however the efficacy of such technology has not yet been explored fully ... ...

Abstract	Background: In 2014, in the United Kingdom, the government made a commitment to spend £3.6 million on the introduction of Skype video calling consultations in general practice, however the efficacy of such technology has not yet been explored fully.AimThe study aimed to explore the views and attitudes of General Practitioners (GPs) towards video consultation in primary care; specifically, in three broad areas ∙The benefits of video consultations to patients and healthcare professionals.∙Potential problems with video consultation and its implementation.∙The cost-effectiveness of video consultation in this setting. Method: A convenience sample of the views of 12 general practitioners across two primary care centres in North London were identified using topic guide based semi-structured interviews. A thematic framework approach was used to analyse the data collected to isolate main and sub-themes.FindingsThree main themes were identified 1.Technology - GPs expressed concerns about the ability of patients to use technology, the availability of technology and the quality of technology available.2.Utility - encompassing GP's ideas about the usefulness of video consultations to patients, practitioners and the doctor-patient relationship. GPs presented mixed views on the extent to which video consultation would be useful.3.Practicality - covering the views of GPs on implementation and effects on workload. GPs unanimously felt that it was not a practical substitute for face-to-face consultation. There were mixed feelings about it being used as an alternative to telephone consultation. Conclusion: GPs did see potential benefits to using video consultations but also expressed concerns that need to be addressed if they are to have full confidence in the system. The views of those who are going to use video consultation as a means of increasing patient access are paramount if such tools are to be a core part of primary care.
MeSH term(s)	Adult ; Attitude of Health Personnel ; Female ; General Practitioners/psychology ; General Practitioners/statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Interviews as Topic ; London ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pilot Projects ; Primary Health Care/methods ; Qualitative Research ; Remote Consultation/methods ; Remote Consultation/statistics & numerical data
Language	English
Publishing date	2018-06-18
Publishing country	England
Document type	Evaluation Studies ; Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2027892-5
ISSN	1477-1128 ; 1463-4236
ISSN (online)	1477-1128
ISSN	1463-4236
DOI	10.1017/S1463423618000361
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Article ; Online: Vitamin D levels and mortality with SARS-COV-2 infection: a retrospective two-centre cohort study.

Zafar, Mansoor / Karkhanis, Mangala / Shahbaz, Muhammad / Khanna, Alisha / Barry, Lucinda / Alam, Saba / Lawrence, Kamal / Pun, Bipin / Eldebri, Reem / Makanjuola, Opeyemi / Safarova, Dana / Farooq, Mariya / Nooredinavand, Hesam / Cuison, Frderic / Subba, Karuna / Singh Randhawa, Ratan / Hegner, Johannes / Oluwamayowa, Ojofeitimi / Elyasaky, Amr /

Adekunle, Bolurin / Periasamy, Manivannan / Abdelbagi, Mohamed / Maryam, Zahra / Khuu, Bao / Esteves Morete, Andreia / Ciroi, Giulio / Moran, Steve / O'Neill, William / Zafar, Maaryah J / Zafar, Nadiyah / Patel, Mirej / Golez, Raphael / Hadid, Abubakr / Muhammad, Tila / Mayhead, Philip / Whitehead, Mark / Dashora, Umesh

Postgraduate medical journal

2021 Volume 98, Issue 1161, Page(s) 523–528

Abstract: Background: The role of vitamin D in increased mortality with SARS-COV-2 virus, namely, COVID-19, remains uncertain. We analysed all the patients who were treated as COVID-19-positive with or without a positive swab and were tested for vitamin D levels.! ...

Abstract	Background: The role of vitamin D in increased mortality with SARS-COV-2 virus, namely, COVID-19, remains uncertain. We analysed all the patients who were treated as COVID-19-positive with or without a positive swab and were tested for vitamin D levels. Methods: This was a retrospective, study involving 1226 patients swabbed for SARS-CoV-2 between the 10 February 2020 and 1 May 2020 at two hospitals of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Patients who were swab-positive for COVID-19 or treated as COVID-19-positive on clinical grounds even though swab results were negative were included in this study. We analysed the association of vitamin D levels and mortality, assessing linear and non-linear associations. Results: A total of 1226 patients had SARS-CoV-2 RNA swabs in this period with age range from 1 year to 101 years. A cohort of 433 of these patients had swabs and recent vitamin D levels anytime in the previous 3 months. Mortality rates were not found to be associated with vitamin D levels (OR=1.04, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.12). Conclusion: Our findings suggest similar mortality risk from COVID-19 irrespective of the levels of vitamin D. Larger prospective studies will be needed to confirm these findings.
MeSH term(s)	Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; COVID-19 ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Cohort Studies ; Humans ; Infant ; Middle Aged ; Prospective Studies ; RNA, Viral ; Retrospective Studies ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Vitamin D ; Vitamins ; Young Adult
Chemical Substances	RNA, Viral ; Vitamins ; Vitamin D (1406-16-2)
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-09-06
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	80325-x
ISSN	1469-0756 ; 0032-5473
ISSN (online)	1469-0756
ISSN	0032-5473
DOI	10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140564
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Article: A Retrospective Observational Study: Is Absolute Lymphocyte Count a Prognostic Marker in COVID-19?

Zafar, Mansoor / Shahbaz, Muhammad / Karkhanis, Mangala / Abdelbagi, Mohamed / Makanjuola, Opeyemi A / Pun, Bipin / Randhawa, Ratan S / Cuison, Frederic / Safarova, Dana / Ojofeitimi, Oluwamayowa / Lawrence, Kamal / Farooq, Mariya / Eldebri, Reem / Alam, Saba / Barry, Lucinda / Khanna, Alisha / Subba, Karuna / Elyasaky, Amr / Nooredinvand, Hesam A /

Periasamy, Manivannan / Adekunle, Bolurin A / Maryam, Zahra / Khuu, Bao / Hegner, Johannes / Esteves Morete, Andreia / Patel, Mirej / Ciroi, Gjulio / Rehman, Ubaid Ur / Hsiao, Jabeen / Zafar, Maaryah J / Zafar, Nadiyah / Lazau, Bianca A / Rizvi, Najam-Us-Saher / Moran, Steve / O'Neill, William A / Clarke, Viktoriya / Berliti, Stefano / Nakos, Athanasios / Muhammad, Tila / Kankam, Osei / Whitehead, Mark / Giddings, Ellie M / Merritt, Simon / Dashora, Umesh

Cureus

2021 Volume 13, Issue 7, Page(s) e16554

Abstract: Aim Our study aimed to find a correlation between low absolute lymphocyte count and COVID-19-related mortality. Methods This study followed a retrospective observational cohort design to analyze the data of patients who presented with symptoms and signs ... ...

Abstract	Aim Our study aimed to find a correlation between low absolute lymphocyte count and COVID-19-related mortality. Methods This study followed a retrospective observational cohort design to analyze the data of patients who presented with symptoms and signs of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), at the Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne District General Hospital in East Sussex, United Kingdom, between February 10, 2020 and May 1, 2020, retrospectively. Survival and mortality for the first 30 days and comorbidities were analyzed for all patients who were tested for COVID-19 irrespective of swab results and had blood lymphocyte levels taken at the time of their visit to the ED and their data were analyzed for statistical significance. Results A total of 1226 patients had SARS-CoV-2 RNA identification swabs taken between February 10, 2020 and May 1, 2020. A cohort of 742 patients of these patients tested for COVID-19 also had blood lymphocyte levels measured. Overall, the lymphocyte count did not differ significantly between patients suspected to have COVID-19 infection with either positive or negative COVID-19 swab results. The lymphocyte count, however, was significantly lower in those who died from COVID-19 (p < 0.001) but when comorbidities were analyzed, we found an association between an increased number of comorbidities and a significantly decreased lymphocyte count. Conclusion Once adjusted for comorbidities, the lymphocyte count had no association with COVID-19 infection and mortality.
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-07-22
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2747273-5
ISSN	2168-8184
ISSN	2168-8184
DOI	10.7759/cureus.16554
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Article ; Online: Exploring UK medical school differences: the MedDifs study of selection, teaching, student and F1 perceptions, postgraduate outcomes and fitness to practise.

McManus, I C / Harborne, Andrew Christopher / Horsfall, Hugo Layard / Joseph, Tobin / Smith, Daniel T / Marshall-Andon, Tess / Samuels, Ryan / Kearsley, Joshua William / Abbas, Nadine / Baig, Hassan / Beecham, Joseph / Benons, Natasha / Caird, Charlie / Clark, Ryan / Cope, Thomas / Coultas, James / Debenham, Luke / Douglas, Sarah / Eldridge, Jack /

Hughes-Gooding, Thomas / Jakubowska, Agnieszka / Jones, Oliver / Lancaster, Eve / MacMillan, Calum / McAllister, Ross / Merzougui, Wassim / Phillips, Ben / Phillips, Simon / Risk, Omar / Sage, Adam / Sooltangos, Aisha / Spencer, Robert / Tajbakhsh, Roxanne / Adesalu, Oluseyi / Aganin, Ivan / Ahmed, Ammar / Aiken, Katherine / Akeredolu, Alimatu-Sadia / Alam, Ibrahim / Ali, Aamna / Anderson, Richard / Ang, Jia Jun / Anis, Fady Sameh / Aojula, Sonam / Arthur, Catherine / Ashby, Alena / Ashraf, Ahmed / Aspinall, Emma / Awad, Mark / Yahaya, Abdul-Muiz Azri / Badhrinarayanan, Shreya / Bandyopadhyay, Soham / Barnes, Sam / Bassey-Duke, Daisy / Boreham, Charlotte / Braine, Rebecca / Brandreth, Joseph / Carrington, Zoe / Cashin, Zoe / Chatterjee, Shaunak / Chawla, Mehar / Chean, Chung Shen / Clements, Chris / Clough, Richard / Coulthurst, Jessica / Curry, Liam / Daniels, Vinnie Christine / Davies, Simon / Davis, Rebecca / De Waal, Hanelie / Desai, Nasreen / Douglas, Hannah / Druce, James / Ejamike, Lady-Namera / Esere, Meron / Eyre, Alex / Fazmin, Ibrahim Talal / Fitzgerald-Smith, Sophia / Ford, Verity / Freeston, Sarah / Garnett, Katherine / General, Whitney / Gilbert, Helen / Gowie, Zein / Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran / Gudka, Keshni / Gumber, Leher / Gupta, Rishi / Harlow, Chris / Harrington, Amy / Heaney, Adele / Ho, Wing Hang Serene / Holloway, Lucy / Hood, Christina / Houghton, Eleanor / Houshangi, Saba / Howard, Emma / Human, Benjamin / Hunter, Harriet / Hussain, Ifrah / Hussain, Sami / Jackson-Taylor, Richard Thomas / Jacob-Ramsdale, Bronwen / Janjuha, Ryan / Jawad, Saleh / Jelani, Muzzamil / Johnston, David / Jones, Mike / Kalidindi, Sadhana / Kalsi, Savraj / Kalyanasundaram, Asanish / Kane, Anna / Kaur, Sahaj / Al-Othman, Othman Khaled / Khan, Qaisar / Khullar, Sajan / Kirkland, Priscilla / Lawrence-Smith, Hannah / Leeson, Charlotte / Lenaerts, Julius Elisabeth Richard / Long, Kerry / Lubbock, Simon / Burrell, Jamie Mac Donald / Maguire, Rachel / Mahendran, Praveen / Majeed, Saad / Malhotra, Prabhjot Singh / Mandagere, Vinay / Mantelakis, Angelos / McGovern, Sophie / Mosuro, Anjola / Moxley, Adam / Mustoe, Sophie / Myers, Sam / Nadeem, Kiran / Nasseri, Reza / Newman, Tom / Nzewi, Richard / Ogborne, Rosalie / Omatseye, Joyce / Paddock, Sophie / Parkin, James / Patel, Mohit / Pawar, Sohini / Pearce, Stuart / Penrice, Samuel / Purdy, Julian / Ramjan, Raisa / Randhawa, Ratan / Rasul, Usman / Raymond-Taggert, Elliot / Razey, Rebecca / Razzaghi, Carmel / Reel, Eimear / Revell, Elliot John / Rigbye, Joanna / Rotimi, Oloruntobi / Said, Abdelrahman / Sanders, Emma / Sangal, Pranoy / Grandal, Nora Sangvik / Shah, Aadam / Shah, Rahul Atul / Shotton, Oliver / Sims, Daniel / Smart, Katie / Smith, Martha Amy / Smith, Nick / Sopian, Aninditya Salma / South, Matthew / Speller, Jessica / Syer, Tom J / Ta, Ngan Hong / Tadross, Daniel / Thompson, Benjamin / Trevett, Jess / Tyler, Matthew / Ullah, Roshan / Utukuri, Mrudula / Vadera, Shree / Van Den Tooren, Harriet / Venturini, Sara / Vijayakumar, Aradhya / Vine, Melanie / Wellbelove, Zoe / Wittner, Liora / Yong, Geoffrey Hong Kiat / Ziyada, Farris / Devine, Oliver Patrick

BMC medicine

2020 Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 136

Abstract: Background: Medical schools differ, particularly in their teaching, but it is unclear whether such differences matter, although influential claims are often made. The Medical School Differences (MedDifs) study brings together a wide range of measures of ...

Abstract	Background: Medical schools differ, particularly in their teaching, but it is unclear whether such differences matter, although influential claims are often made. The Medical School Differences (MedDifs) study brings together a wide range of measures of UK medical schools, including postgraduate performance, fitness to practise issues, specialty choice, preparedness, satisfaction, teaching styles, entry criteria and institutional factors. Method: Aggregated data were collected for 50 measures across 29 UK medical schools. Data include institutional history (e.g. rate of production of hospital and GP specialists in the past), curricular influences (e.g. PBL schools, spend per student, staff-student ratio), selection measures (e.g. entry grades), teaching and assessment (e.g. traditional vs PBL, specialty teaching, self-regulated learning), student satisfaction, Foundation selection scores, Foundation satisfaction, postgraduate examination performance and fitness to practise (postgraduate progression, GMC sanctions). Six specialties (General Practice, Psychiatry, Anaesthetics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery) were examined in more detail. Results: Medical school differences are stable across time (median alpha = 0.835). The 50 measures were highly correlated, 395 (32.2%) of 1225 correlations being significant with p < 0.05, and 201 (16.4%) reached a Tukey-adjusted criterion of p < 0.0025. Problem-based learning (PBL) schools differ on many measures, including lower performance on postgraduate assessments. While these are in part explained by lower entry grades, a surprising finding is that schools such as PBL schools which reported greater student satisfaction with feedback also showed lower performance at postgraduate examinations. More medical school teaching of psychiatry, surgery and anaesthetics did not result in more specialist trainees. Schools that taught more general practice did have more graduates entering GP training, but those graduates performed less well in MRCGP examinations, the negative correlation resulting from numbers of GP trainees and exam outcomes being affected both by non-traditional teaching and by greater historical production of GPs. Postgraduate exam outcomes were also higher in schools with more self-regulated learning, but lower in larger medical schools. A path model for 29 measures found a complex causal nexus, most measures causing or being caused by other measures. Postgraduate exam performance was influenced by earlier attainment, at entry to Foundation and entry to medical school (the so-called academic backbone), and by self-regulated learning. Foundation measures of satisfaction, including preparedness, had no subsequent influence on outcomes. Fitness to practise issues were more frequent in schools producing more male graduates and more GPs. Conclusions: Medical schools differ in large numbers of ways that are causally interconnected. Differences between schools in postgraduate examination performance, training problems and GMC sanctions have important implications for the quality of patient care and patient safety.
MeSH term(s)	Female ; Humans ; Male ; Schools, Medical/standards ; Students, Medical/statistics & numerical data ; United Kingdom
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-05-14
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2131669-7
ISSN	1741-7015 ; 1741-7015
ISSN (online)	1741-7015
ISSN	1741-7015
DOI	10.1186/s12916-020-01572-3
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Article ; Online: The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey: an analysis of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in 25 UK medical schools relating to timing, duration, teaching formats, teaching content, and problem-based learning.

Devine, Oliver Patrick / Harborne, Andrew Christopher / Horsfall, Hugo Layard / Joseph, Tobin / Marshall-Andon, Tess / Samuels, Ryan / Kearsley, Joshua William / Abbas, Nadine / Baig, Hassan / Beecham, Joseph / Benons, Natasha / Caird, Charlie / Clark, Ryan / Cope, Thomas / Coultas, James / Debenham, Luke / Douglas, Sarah / Eldridge, Jack / Hughes-Gooding, Thomas /

Jakubowska, Agnieszka / Jones, Oliver / Lancaster, Eve / MacMillan, Calum / McAllister, Ross / Merzougui, Wassim / Phillips, Ben / Phillips, Simon / Risk, Omar / Sage, Adam / Sooltangos, Aisha / Spencer, Robert / Tajbakhsh, Roxanne / Adesalu, Oluseyi / Aganin, Ivan / Ahmed, Ammar / Aiken, Katherine / Akeredolu, Alimatu-Sadia / Alam, Ibrahim / Ali, Aamna / Anderson, Richard / Ang, Jia Jun / Anis, Fady Sameh / Aojula, Sonam / Arthur, Catherine / Ashby, Alena / Ashraf, Ahmed / Aspinall, Emma / Awad, Mark / Yahaya, Abdul-Muiz Azri / Badhrinarayanan, Shreya / Bandyopadhyay, Soham / Barnes, Sam / Bassey-Duke, Daisy / Boreham, Charlotte / Braine, Rebecca / Brandreth, Joseph / Carrington, Zoe / Cashin, Zoe / Chatterjee, Shaunak / Chawla, Mehar / Chean, Chung Shen / Clements, Chris / Clough, Richard / Coulthurst, Jessica / Curry, Liam / Daniels, Vinnie Christine / Davies, Simon / Davis, Rebecca / De Waal, Hanelie / Desai, Nasreen / Douglas, Hannah / Druce, James / Ejamike, Lady-Namera / Esere, Meron / Eyre, Alex / Fazmin, Ibrahim Talal / Fitzgerald-Smith, Sophia / Ford, Verity / Freeston, Sarah / Garnett, Katherine / General, Whitney / Gilbert, Helen / Gowie, Zein / Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran / Gudka, Keshni / Gumber, Leher / Gupta, Rishi / Harlow, Chris / Harrington, Amy / Heaney, Adele / Ho, Wing Hang Serene / Holloway, Lucy / Hood, Christina / Houghton, Eleanor / Houshangi, Saba / Howard, Emma / Human, Benjamin / Hunter, Harriet / Hussain, Ifrah / Hussain, Sami / Jackson-Taylor, Richard Thomas / Jacob-Ramsdale, Bronwen / Janjuha, Ryan / Jawad, Saleh / Jelani, Muzzamil / Johnston, David / Jones, Mike / Kalidindi, Sadhana / Kalsi, Savraj / Kalyanasundaram, Asanish / Kane, Anna / Kaur, Sahaj / Al-Othman, Othman Khaled / Khan, Qaisar / Khullar, Sajan / Kirkland, Priscilla / Lawrence-Smith, Hannah / Leeson, Charlotte / Lenaerts, Julius Elisabeth Richard / Long, Kerry / Lubbock, Simon / Burrell, Jamie Mac Donald / Maguire, Rachel / Mahendran, Praveen / Majeed, Saad / Malhotra, Prabhjot Singh / Mandagere, Vinay / Mantelakis, Angelos / McGovern, Sophie / Mosuro, Anjola / Moxley, Adam / Mustoe, Sophie / Myers, Sam / Nadeem, Kiran / Nasseri, Reza / Newman, Tom / Nzewi, Richard / Ogborne, Rosalie / Omatseye, Joyce / Paddock, Sophie / Parkin, James / Patel, Mohit / Pawar, Sohini / Pearce, Stuart / Penrice, Samuel / Purdy, Julian / Ramjan, Raisa / Randhawa, Ratan / Rasul, Usman / Raymond-Taggert, Elliot / Razey, Rebecca / Razzaghi, Carmel / Reel, Eimear / Revell, Elliot John / Rigbye, Joanna / Rotimi, Oloruntobi / Said, Abdelrahman / Sanders, Emma / Sangal, Pranoy / Grandal, Nora Sangvik / Shah, Aadam / Shah, Rahul Atul / Shotton, Oliver / Sims, Daniel / Smart, Katie / Smith, Martha Amy / Smith, Nick / Sopian, Aninditya Salma / South, Matthew / Speller, Jessica / Syer, Tom J / Ta, Ngan Hong / Tadross, Daniel / Thompson, Benjamin / Trevett, Jess / Tyler, Matthew / Ullah, Roshan / Utukuri, Mrudula / Vadera, Shree / Van Den Tooren, Harriet / Venturini, Sara / Vijayakumar, Aradhya / Vine, Melanie / Wellbelove, Zoe / Wittner, Liora / Yong, Geoffrey Hong Kiat / Ziyada, Farris / McManus, I C

BMC medicine

2020 Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 126

Abstract: Background: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a detailed picture of ... ...

Abstract	Background: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a detailed picture of timetabled undergraduate teaching activity at 25 UK medical schools, particularly in relation to problem-based learning (PBL). Method: The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey used detailed timetables provided by 25 schools with standard 5-year courses. Timetabled teaching events were coded in terms of course year, duration, teaching format, and teaching content. Ten schools used PBL. Teaching times from timetables were validated against two other studies that had assessed GP teaching and lecture, seminar, and tutorial times. Results: A total of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in the academic year 2014/2015 were analysed, including SSCs (student-selected components) and elective studies. A typical UK medical student receives 3960 timetabled hours of teaching during their 5-year course. There was a clear difference between the initial 2 years which mostly contained basic medical science content and the later 3 years which mostly consisted of clinical teaching, although some clinical teaching occurs in the first 2 years. Medical schools differed in duration, format, and content of teaching. Two main factors underlay most of the variation between schools, Traditional vs PBL teaching and Structured vs Unstructured teaching. A curriculum map comparing medical schools was constructed using those factors. PBL schools differed on a number of measures, having more PBL teaching time, fewer lectures, more GP teaching, less surgery, less formal teaching of basic science, and more sessions with unspecified content. Discussion: UK medical schools differ in both format and content of teaching. PBL and non-PBL schools clearly differ, albeit with substantial variation within groups, and overlap in the middle. The important question of whether differences in teaching matter in terms of outcomes is analysed in a companion study (MedDifs) which examines how teaching differences relate to university infrastructure, entry requirements, student perceptions, and outcomes in Foundation Programme and postgraduate training.
MeSH term(s)	Curriculum/standards ; Education, Medical, Undergraduate/organization & administration ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; United Kingdom
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-05-14
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2131669-7
ISSN	1741-7015 ; 1741-7015
ISSN (online)	1741-7015
ISSN	1741-7015
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