Scholars@Duke
Robert Ken Kamei

Robert Ken Kamei

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
robert.kamei@duke.edu
Box 2927 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
128 Davsion Bldg, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Strategic learning: A holistic approach to studying

Book · July 21, 2021 "Dr Bob was our pediatrician. If we could trust him with our kids, you can trust him with how to learn better. I discovered many surprising truths about learning in this book, so follow the scientific research and become a better learner." Guy Kawasaki Bes ... Full text Cite

Strategies for enhancing medical student resilience: student and faculty member perspectives.

Journal Article Int J Med Educ · January 12, 2018 OBJECTIVES: To improve programs aimed to enhance medical student resiliency, we examined both medical student and faculty advisor perspectives on resiliency-building in an Asian medical school. METHODS: In two separate focus groups, a convenience sample of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Experiences with a clinical reasoning and evidence-based medicine course.

Journal Article Clin Teach · February 2016 BACKGROUND: Although clinical reasoning (CR) and evidence-based medicine (EBM) are taught in some medical schools, the curricular details and students' clinical use of these skills are unknown. A detailed description of, and student experiences with, a pra ... Full text Link to item Cite

The history and future of Team-Based Learning

Journal Article Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Factors associated with medical student clinical reasoning and evidence based medicine practice.

Journal Article Int J Med Educ · November 8, 2015 OBJECTIVES: To identify the factors associated with medical students' clinical reasoning (CR) use and evidence-based medicine (EBM) use in the clinical setting. METHODS: Our cross-sectional study surveyed 44 final-year medical students at an emerging acade ... Full text Link to item Cite

Academic medicine education institute (AM∙EI): Transforming the educational culture of health professionals

Journal Article Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore · May 1, 2015 Introduction: The Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM∙EI), jointly established by Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and Singapore Healthcare Services (SingHealth), is a newly formed health professions education academy designed to cultivate ... Cite

Medical Students’ Exposure to Bedside Teaching

Journal Article Medical Science Educator · March 1, 2015 The “One-Minute Preceptor” is a well-known and widely used clinical teaching model which consists of five primary microskills: (1) get a commitment, (2) probe for supporting evidence, (3) teach general rules, (4) reinforce what was right, and (5) correct m ... Full text Cite

21 st Century Learning in Medicine: Traditional Teaching versus Team-based Learning

Journal Article Medical Science Educator · June 1, 2012 The learning strategy developed by Duke-NUS educators, called TeamLEAD, incorporates Team-Based Learning principles. Lectures, readings and e-learning on a given topic are completed before class; in-class activity focuses on assuring understanding, applyin ... Full text Open Access Cite

What do medical students learn when they follow patients from hospital to community? A longitudinal qualitative study.

Journal Article Med Educ Online · 2012 CONTEXT: Although longitudinal community-based care of patients provides opportunities for teaching patient centredness and chronic disease management, there is a paucity of literature assessing learning outcomes of these clerkships. This study examines le ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quo Vadis Duke-NUS?

Journal Article Anat Sci Educ · 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

Developing Physician Leaders for Over 50 years: The Duke Medical Student Research Experience in the US and Singapore

Journal Article Medical Science Educator · April 1, 2011 Duke University has long incorporated research into its medical school curriculum. Its sister school, Duke-National University of Singapore, adopted the same model to inculcate a culture of research and develop graduates with a strong scientific foundation ... Full text Cite

An innovative residency program designed to develop leaders to improve the health of children.

Journal Article Acad Med · October 2010 Physician-leaders are needed to address the widening gap in health disparities in an increasingly complex health care system. To be effective leaders, physicians need specific training; yet despite its importance, leadership training is rarely addressed du ... Full text Link to item Cite

An innovative residency program designed to develop leaders to improve the health of children.

Journal Article Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · January 1, 2010 Physician-leaders are needed to address the widening gap in health disparities in an increasingly complex health care system. To be effective leaders, physicians need specific training; yet despite its importance, leadership training is rarely addressed du ... Cite

Developing a radiology curriculum for a new medical school in Singapore

Journal Article · December 1, 2008 Radiology over the past several years has become an increasingly integral component of patient management, not only in helping clinicians coming to a diagnosis through a wide range of imaging modalities, but also in treatment of diseases. Interventional ra ... Full text Cite

A global partnership in medical education between Duke University and the National University of Singapore.

Journal Article Acad Med · February 2008 Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have partnered to launch a new medical school that brings the American style of postbaccalaureate medical education to Asia. The new institution, called the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (GM ... Full text Link to item Cite

Professionalism: looking for your blind spots.

Journal Article Ann Acad Med Singap · December 2006 Link to item Cite

Using the PRACTICE mnemonic to apply cultural competency to genetics in medical education and patient care.

Journal Article Acad Med · December 2005 Medical education curricula increasingly are incorporating courses on cultural competency and skills development in working with ethnically diverse patient populations as well as courses on genetics and genomics. The authors support these efforts and belie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Residency is not a race: our ten-year experience with a flexible schedule residency training option.

Journal Article Acad Med · May 2004 PURPOSE: To evaluate the Flexible Option (FO), a residency training schedule offered by the University of California, San Francisco, Pediatric Residency Program. METHOD: In 2002, structured telephone interviews were conducted with residents who participate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evening continuity clinic: preserving primary care education in the face of duty hour limitations?

Journal Article Ambul Pediatr · 2004 OBJECTIVE: Residency programs with postcall afternoon continuity clinics violate the new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) limitations on resident duty hours. We evaluated housestaff experience with a pilot intervention that repl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spare the rod and save the child

Journal Article Virtual Mentor · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

Chronic cough in children.

Journal Article Pediatr Clin North Am · June 1991 Chronic cough in children is a frequent complaint seen by the primary health care provider. Although many of these coughs spontaneously resolve, some are caused by a more serious process and require further attention. Selecting those patients who will bene ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neonatal Job's syndrome featuring a vesicular eruption.

Journal Article Pediatr Dermatol · May 1988 A newborn infant who developed a vesicular eruption, clinically indistinguishable from herpetic lesions, eventually developed the classic features of Job's syndrome. The initial ares of involvement included the hands and feet, then the scalp, face, and sup ... Full text Link to item Cite

Histiocytosis X resembling cherry angiomas.

Journal Article Pediatr Dermatol · November 1985 Histiocytosis X is a disorder of histiocytes of the Langerhans' cell lineage. As the initial feature is often cutaneous, recognition of these skin changes is important. Several cutaneous manifestations have been described, most commonly, seborrheic dermati ... Full text Link to item Cite