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Featured News: BMC Research Notes goes back to its roots

We are excited to announce that BMC Research Notes has renewed its focus on publishing short research notes and potential dark data from all scientific and clinical disciplines.

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Featured article: Predicting medical students who will have difficulty during their clinical training

Graduate entry, female sex, and better performance in UMAT paper 2 are associated with a lower risk for having difficulties during clinical training in this study, whereas international students were at the highest risk potentially due to differences in selection pathways and delayed acculturation.

Content type: Research article
| 22 May 2018

Towards a culturally competent health professional: a South African case study

Authors: Margaret Matthews and Jacqueline Van Wyk
Content type: Research article
| 16 May 2018

A MOOC as an immediate strategy to train health personnel in the cholera outbreak in Mexico

Authors: Laura Magaña-Valladares, Cynthia Rosas-Magallanes, Alejandra Montoya-Rodríguez, Guillermo Calvillo-Jacobo, Celia Mercedes Alpuche-Arande and Sebastían García-Saisó
Content type: Research article
| 14 May 2018

Validity evidence for the Hamburg multiple mini-interview

Authors: Mirjana Knorr, Anja Schwibbe, Maren Ehrhardt, Janina Lackamp, Stefan Zimmermann and Wolfgang Hampe
Content type: Research article
| 11 May 2018

Pain medicine content, teaching and assessment in medical school curricula in Australia and New Zealand

Authors: Elspeth Erica Shipton, Frank Bate, Raymond Garrick, Carole Steketee and Eric John Visser
Content type: Research article
| 11 May 2018

Reflection revisited: how physicians conceptualize and experience reflection in professional practice – a qualitative study

Authors: Elisa Bindels, Christel Verberg, Albert Scherpbier, Sylvia Heeneman and Kiki Lombarts

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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: Debate
| 10 May 2005

Evolutionary explanations in medical and health profession courses: are you answering your students' "why" questions?

Authors: Eugene E Harris and Avelin A Malyango
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.

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Liam Messin, BioMed Central

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Sigrid Harendza, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
Danette McKinley, Foundation for International Medical Education and Research
Chris Roberts, Sydney Medical School
Terese Stenfors, Karolinksa Institute
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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Towards a culturally competent health professional: a South African case study

A MOOC as an immediate strategy to train health personnel in the cholera outbreak in Mexico

Validity evidence for the Hamburg multiple mini-interview

Pain medicine content, teaching and assessment in medical school curricula in Australia and New Zealand

Reflection revisited: how physicians conceptualize and experience reflection in professional practice – a qualitative study

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

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

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

Evolutionary explanations in medical and health profession courses: are you answering your students' "why" questions?

Sicily statement on evidence-based practice

Aims and scope

Editor

Section Editors

Sigrid Harendza, Section Editor

Data Support Services pilot

BMC Series blog

Better training could help health professionals identify and support pregnant women with eating disorders

Rehabilitation and economic recovery for torture survivors

Highlights of the BMC series: April 2018

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