Kieran Walsh

ORCID: 0000-0003-1268-4676
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Research Areas
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Social Media in Health Education
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • History of Medicine Studies
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Healthcare Quality and Management
  • Global Health and Surgery

International Labour Organization
2025

British Medical Association
2012-2024

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2020-2024

Box Hill Hospital
2024

University College Cork
2023

National Trauma Research Institute
2019-2021

Monash University
2017-2021

Alfred Health
2019-2021

The Alfred Hospital
2019-2020

Walsh University
2011-2019

Background: Blended learning describes a combination of teaching methods, often utilizing digital technologies.Research suggests that learner outcomes can be improved through some blended formats.However, the cost-effectiveness delivering is unclear.Objective: This study aimed to determine face-to-face and approach for evidence-based medicine training within medical program. Methods:The economic evaluation was conducted as part randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing (EBM) competency...

10.2196/jmir.4346 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2015-07-21

abandon valid evidence simply because of an asymmetrical funnel plot.The prevention publication bias is much more desirable than any diagnostic or corrective analysis.

10.1136/bmj.333.7568.600 article EN BMJ 2006-09-14

Online learning resources based on the best available evidence Online textbooks, e-conferences and telemedicine. Cyberpatients virtual doctors. Lots of is web, but much it flawed, indecipherable, biased. Much uses new technologies for their own sake rather than as an aid to learning. Drug companies sponsor many these initiatives. But in United Kingdom Department Health has a programme improve experience patients. Providing patients with choice key objective programme. And likely that would...

10.1136/bmj.327.7423.1064 article EN BMJ 2003-11-06

Medical education is expensive. Although we have made progress in working out 'what works' medical education, there are few data on whether offers value relative to cost. Research into cost and beset by problems. One of the major problems lack clear definitions for many terms commonly used. Phrases such as cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit cost-utility analysis cost-feasibility used without authors explaining readers what they mean (and sometimes themselves understanding mean)....

10.1111/medu.12214 article EN Medical Education 2013-09-09

Introduction There has been much discourse about the features and impact of clinical decision support. However, until recently, there less evidence on how healthcare professionals use support to provide evidence-based care or potential cost savings that could emerge from its use. This study attempted fill this gap by asking what extent they value digital as a means apply save costs.

10.1080/08998280.2025.2465055 article EN Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 2025-02-24

Background: Research on the correlation between personality and students' specialty choice is helpful in their career counselling process predicting future distribution of specialties a country.Aims: This study first its kind Arab world. The research questions were: (1) What influence gender profiles medical students? (2) are students categorized according to preferred specialist choices? (3) choices stage education?Method: A cross-sectional was performed at King Khalid University Medical...

10.3109/0142159x.2012.731104 article EN Medical Teacher 2012-11-07

The widely used Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is undoubtedly expensive. Cost-effectiveness one of the components assessment utility index defining its usefulness. Our current financial climate demands increased transparency in costs associated with medical education and it now vital to ascertain how much spent on assessments, such as OSCE, particular different types stations within OSCE.A retrospective case-study approach was identify all development, production,...

10.3109/0142159x.2015.1033389 article EN Medical Teacher 2015-04-29

<h3>ABSTRACT</h3> One in four adults the UK have two or more medical conditions. three admitted to hospital five People with multimorbidity poorer functional status, quality of life and health outcomes, are higher users ambulatory inpatient care than those without multimorbidity. The entire healthcare system needs change so that it can provide a better service for patients professional education also. Clinical decision support has clear role management But, until now, clinical tools offered...

10.7861/fhj.2022-0029 article EN Future Healthcare Journal 2022-07-01

Online assessment in medical education offers many advantages over traditional forms of assessment: students can be provided instant feedback on their progress, tutors more easily monitor learners' progress and achievement milestones, automated marking accelerates a once time-consuming burden for institutions1,2. is not panacea, however, downsides include its costs inherent reliance technology, which sometimes unreliable. Do the outweigh disadvantages? It likely that they do, but what...

10.4314/mmj.v27i2.8 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Malawi Medical Journal 2015-08-07

Growing demand for accountability, transparency, and efficiency in health professions education is expected to drive increased for, use of, cost value analyses. In this AMEE Guide, we introduce key concepts, methods, literature that will enable novices economics conduct simple analyses, hold informed discussions with economic specialists, undertake further learning on more advanced topics. The practical structure conducting analyses provided guide researchers produce robust results are...

10.1080/0142159x.2020.1838466 article EN Medical Teacher 2020-12-05

10.1080/14739879.2013.11494206 article EN Education for Primary Care 2013-01-01

Failure by students in health professional clinical education intertwines the and sectors, with actions one having potential downstream effects on other. It is unknown what economic costs are associated failure, how these distributed, impacts have students, clinicians workplace productivity. An understanding of cost drivers boundaries will enable evidence-based targeting strategic investments into education, including where they should be made whom.This study was designed to determine...

10.1111/medu.13266 article EN Medical Education 2017-03-21

Medical education is expensive.1 The expense sometimes borne by learners and their families, institutions, governments.2 Graduate medical no different from other forms of in terms its expense. There the cost curriculum development delivery for residents, resources (such as equipment, technology, or e-learning resources), assessment (be it formative summative), program evaluation.3 In this article, means assessing learners, whereas evaluation evaluating course, curriculum, program. Some these...

10.4300/jgme-d-14-00328.1 article EN Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2015-03-01

Healthcare and health professions education share many of the same problems in decision making. In both cases, there is a finite amount resources, so choices need to be made between alternatives. To navigate options available requires effective Choosing one option consideration its opportunity cost – benefit forgone other competing options. The purpose this abridged AMEE guide introduce educational decision-makers economic concept cost, how read studies about costs inform cost-conscious...

10.1080/0142159x.2018.1552784 article EN Medical Teacher 2019-02-22

Existing research on the costs associated with design and deployment of eLearning in health professions education is limited. The relative these learning platforms to those face-to-face are also not well understood. lack predefined costing models used for cost data capture has made it difficult complete evaluation. key aim this scoping review was explore state evidence concerning within education. explores available define calculations related eLearning. performed using a search strategy...

10.2196/13681 article EN cc-by JMIR Medical Education 2020-12-18

Debates about digital learning, face-to-face learning and blended often focus on their effectiveness in achieving a few core educational outcomes. The cost or convenience of using different methods to achieve certain outcomes have increasingly come into the framework over past two decades. However, only rarely do educators learners consider climate footprint various activities. This is an important shortcoming, as all activities can contribute our overall footprint. Providers education...

10.1016/j.fhj.2024.100156 article EN cc-by Future Healthcare Journal 2024-06-25
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