Chia-Yi Ho, Yi-Chen Huang, Yuan-Ting C Lo, Mark L Wahlqvist, Meei-Shyuan Lee
Breakfast is associated with the metabolic syndrome and school performance among Taiwanese children
Research in developmental disabilities
simulated cases widely used medical education develop clinical reasoning skills discuss key topics around patient care cases present opportunity demonstrate real world encounters diverse patient health provider identities impacts social structural determinants health demonstrate generalist approach problems however despite many callstoaction medical schools better incorporate equity diversity inclusion edi generalism remains difficult evaluate well goals met quality improvement project completed single medical school evaluate domains generalism edi within simulated cases used preclinical curriculum generalism evaluated using toronto generalism assessment tool tgat edi evaluated using locally developed novel tool analysis included descriptive statistics pearson correlation coefficient total 49 simulated cases reviewed twelve generalism 5 edi items scored 5point likert scale higher scores indicating better demonstration generalism edi within case average generalism score across cases 45660 average edi score across cases 11725 2149 cases included representation one diverse identity categories common diverse identity represented nonwhite racesethnicities identity represented least diversity language fluency generalism edi scores demonstrated weak positive correlation r2 025 quantitative evaluation simulated cases using specific generalism edi scoring tools successful generating insight areas improvement teaching cases approach identified key content areas case improvement identities currently underrepresented teaching cases similar approaches could feasibly used medical schools improve generalism edi teaching cases curricular materials