Automated seafood freshness detection and preservation analysis using machine learning and paper-based pH sensors.

Seafood, including fish, prawns and various marine products, is a critical component of global nutrition due to its high protein content, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Traditional methods for assessing seafood freshness such as sensory evaluation and microbiological analysis are labor-intensive, time-consuming and often require specialized equipment. To address these limitations, this research presents an automated freshness detection system for refrigerated fish using machine learning and evaluates the effectiveness of different packaging techniques.

The effectiveness of integrating making every contact count into an undergraduate medical curriculum.

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of integrating Making Every Contact Count (MECC) using Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) into an undergraduate medical curriculum and test the performance of an associated assessment.

Methods: Concepts were introduced to second year students through lectures, small group seminars, role-plays and a new Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).station.

Community immersion project to enhance medical students understanding of the health needs of the most vulnerable in the community.

Aim: A group of eight fourth year medical students formed the 'UBMS public health crew' to conduct a community immersion project within elderly ethnic minority communities. The aim of the study was to understand their health perceptions regarding influenza vaccinations and learn about the enablers and barriers in accessing the vaccination.

Methodology: Interviews were held by the students at community lunch clubs with the help of questionnaires.

Face-to-face versus online clinically integrated EBM teaching in an undergraduate medical school: a pilot study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of two models (face-to-face vs online teaching) of clinically integrating evidence-based medicine (EBM) teaching in an undergraduate medical school.

Design And Setting: A pilot study of face-to-face versus online EBM teaching.

Participants: This study focused on undergraduate medical students who entered the University of Buckingham Medical School MBChB course in 2016 (n=65).

Development and evaluation of a spiral model of assessing EBM competency using OSCEs in undergraduate medical education.

Background: Medical students often struggle to understand the relevance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) to their clinical practice, yet it is a competence that all students must develop prior to graduation. Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are a valued assessment tool to assess critical components of EBM competency, particularly different levels of mastery as they progress through the course. This study developed and evaluated EBM based OSCE stations with an aim to establish a spiral approach for EBM OSCE stations for undergraduate medical students.