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Announcement
Announcing New Collection in BMC Medical Education - Medical Education in China: Trends and Future Directions
We are pleased to announce an upcoming Collection for BMC Medical Education focused on new developments and research in medical education in China. Submissions will be invited on topics such as:
- Student and Trainee Selection
- Curriculum Innovation
- Assessment, Online and Workplace Based
- Technology Enabled Learning
- Teaching and Assessment of Professionalism
- Interprofessional and Service Learning
We welcome all article types, the submission guidelines can be found here.
Edited by: Professor Dianne Manning, Professor Bo Qu, Professor Wendy Hu, assisted by Dr Yaxin Zhu
Featured articles
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Taking care of our future doctors: a service evaluation of a medical student mental health service
Medical students benefit from timely specialist mental health input, showing improvements in mental well-being and improved functioning.
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Medical students as health coaches: adding value for patients and students
Empowering patients in real-world settings can help develop students’ professional identity, mindset and skills, facilitating health behaviour changes.
Read our highly accessed articles
The relationship between learning styles and academic performance in TURKISH physiotherapy students
Training to reduce LGBTQ-related bias among medical, nursing, and dental students and providers: a systematic review
Entrustable professional activity 7: opportunities to collaborate on evidence-based medicine teaching and assessment of medical students
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Contextual attributes to promote positive social interdependence in problem-based learning: a focus group study
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Undertaking a high stakes virtual OSCE (“VOSCE”) during Covid-19
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Effectiveness of an escape room for undergraduate interprofessional learning: a mixed methods single group pre-post evaluation
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Examination of resident characteristics associated with interest in primary care and identification of barriers to cross-cultural care
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Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education
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Student perspective of classroom and distance learning during COVID-19 pandemic in the undergraduate dental study program Universitas Indonesia
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Sicily statement on evidence-based practice
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Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction
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Diversification of U.S. medical schools via affirmative action implementation
BMC Series Blog
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
- Kelda Manser-Smith, 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
Black Lives Matter
A collection of books, journal articles and magazine content that amplifies Black voices and the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read MoreSigrid 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.
Data Support Services pilot
Authors submitting to this journal can opt to use a new service that will make it easier to share research data.
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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Speed
92 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
62 days to first decision for all manuscripts
201 days from submission to acceptance
15 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
1.831 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.235 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.526 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.831 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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