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Anxiety levels among health sciences students during their first visit to the dissection room
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Acceptance of the ‘Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (Chinese)’ as a standardised evaluation of professional competency in Chinese physiotherapy students: an observational study
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Mapping clinical reasoning literature across the health professions: a scoping review
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Assessing the preparedness of foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors during the transition from medical school to the foundation training programme
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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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Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction
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Relationship between participants’ level of education and engagement in their completion of the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course
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Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience
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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
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.
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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Citation Impact
1.870 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.317 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.358 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.802 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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