BMC Medical Education

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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

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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.

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Frontline learning of medical teaching: “you pick up as you go through work and practice”

W. Hartford, L. Nimmon and T. Stenfors

Published on: 19 September 2017
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Goleman’s Leadership styles at different hierarchical levels in medical education

Anurag Saxena, Loni Desanghere, Kent Stobart and Keith Walker

Published on: 19 September 2017
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Blended learning with Moodle in medical statistics: an assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to e-learning

Li Luo, Xiaohua Cheng, Shiyuan Wang, Junxue Zhang, Wenbo Zhu, Jiaying Yang and Pei Liu

Published on: 19 September 2017
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The potential of a self-assessment tool to identify healthcare professionals’ strengths and areas in need of professional development to aid effective facilitation of group-based, person-centered diabetes education

Vibeke Stenov, Gitte Wind, Timothy Skinner, Susanne Reventlow and Nana Folmann Hempler

Published on: 18 September 2017
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Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance

S.S. Prakash, N. Muthuraman and R. Anand

Published on: 18 September 2017

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

Maged N Kamel Boulos, Inocencio Maramba and Steve Wheeler

Published on: 15 August 2006
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Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction

Amruta Phadtare, Anu Bahmani, Anand Shah and Ricardo Pietrobon

Published on: 27 May 2009
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Relationship between participants’ level of education and engagement in their completion of the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course

Lynette R Goldberg, Erica Bell, Carolyn King, Ciaran O’Mara, Fran McInerney, Andrew Robinson and James Vickers

Published on: 26 March 2015
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Evolutionary explanations in medical and health profession courses: are you answering your students' "why" questions?

Eugene E Harris and Avelin A Malyango

Published on: 10 May 2005
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Sicily statement on evidence-based practice

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

Published on: 5 January 2005

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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

Clare Partridge, BioMed Central

Section Editors

Sigrid Harendza, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
Trevor Lambert, Oxford University
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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