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Announcing the launch of In Review

BMC Medical Education, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:

Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received

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Featured blog: Paving the desire paths of health information needs - Teaching students to edit Wikipedia

Research recently published in BMC Medical Education found that pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia pages. Here, Prof. Tina Brock and Prof. Dorie Apollonio describe the research performed by themselves and their colleagues and its potential dual benefits for students and society.

Content type: Research article
| 23 August 2019

The utilization of peer feedback during collaborative learning in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review

Authors: Sarah Lerchenfeldt, Misa Mi and Marty Eng
Content type: Research article
| 22 August 2019

The journey of thesis supervisors from novice to expert: a grounded theory study

Authors: Leila Bazrafkan, Alireza Yousefy, Mitra Amini and Nikoo Yamani
Content type: Research article
| 22 August 2019

The effect of repeated full immersion simulation training in ureterorenoscopy on mental workload of novice operators

Authors: Takashige Abe, Faizan Dar, Passakorn Amnattrakul, Abdullatif Aydin, Nicholas Raison, Nobuo Shinohara, Muhammad Shamim Khan, Kamran Ahmed and Prokar Dasgupta
Content type: Research article
| 22 August 2019

Is your mind set? – how are intra- and interpersonal competences dealt with in medical education? A multi-professional qualitative study

Authors: Lisa Lombardo, Jan Ehlers and Gabriele Lutz
Content type: Research article
| 22 August 2019

Exploring undergraduate students achievement emotions during ward round simulation: a mixed-method study

Authors: Claudia C. Behrens, Diana H. Dolmans, Gerard J. Gormley and Erik W. Driessen

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Content type: Debate
| 15 August 2006

Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Inocencio Maramba and Steve Wheeler
Content type: Research article
| 27 May 2009

Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction

Authors: Amruta Phadtare, Anu Bahmani, Anand Shah and Ricardo Pietrobon
Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2015

Relationship between participants’ level of education and engagement in their completion of the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course

Authors: Lynette R Goldberg, Erica Bell, Carolyn King, Ciaran O’Mara, Fran McInerney, Andrew Robinson and James Vickers
Content type: Research article
| 16 May 2012

Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience

Authors: Syeda Kauser Ali and Lubna A Baig
Content type: Debate
| 5 January 2005

Sicily statement on evidence-based practice

Authors: Martin Dawes, William Summerskill, Paul Glasziou, Antonino Cartabellotta, Janet Martin, Kevork Hopayian, Franz Porzsolt, Amanda Burls and James Osborne

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Aims and scope

BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.

Editor

Anne Menard, BioMed Central, UK

Manuscript Editor

Ana Donnelly, BioMed Central, UK

Assistant Editor

Esther Fagelson, BioMed Central, UK

Section Editors

Sigrid Harendza, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
Danette McKinley, Foundation for International Medical Education and Research
Chris Roberts, Sydney Medical School
Terese Stenfors, Karolinska Institute
Marjo Wijnen-Meijer, TUM Medical Education Center
Tim Wilkinson, University of Otago

Sigrid Harendza, Section Editor

Sigrid Harendza is professor for internal medicine and educational research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Sigrid joined the BMC Medical Education Editorial Board in 2013.

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