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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. We have introduced a new article type and widened the scope to all scientific and clinical disciplines.

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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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Use of simulation-based medical training in Swiss pediatric hospitals: a national survey

Martin Stocker, Kathryn Laine and Francis Ulmer

Published on: 17 June 2017
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Medical students can teach communication skills – a mixed methods study of cross-year peer tutoring

Osamu Nomura, Hirotaka Onishi and Hiroyuki Kato

Published on: 15 June 2017
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The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System

Harold G. Koenig, Kathleen Perno and Ted Hamilton

Published on: 12 June 2017
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“On the same page”? The effect of GP examiner feedback on differences in rating severity in clinical assessments: a pre/post intervention study

Nancy Sturman, Remo Ostini, Wai Yee Wong, Jianzhen Zhang and Michael David

Published on: 6 June 2017
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Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment

Carola Lütgendorf-Caucig, Philipp A. Kaiser, Alexandra Machacek, Cora Waldstein, Richard Pötter and Henriette Löffler-Stastka

Published on: 6 June 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.

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Clare Partridge, BioMed Central

Section Editors

Sigrid Harendza, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
Wendy Hu, Western Sydney University
Trevor Lambert, Oxford University
Chris Roberts, Sydney Medical School
Matthias Siebeck, University of Munich
Terese Stenfors-Hayes, Karolinksa Institute
Tim Wilkinson, University of Otago

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You need to get out more. Occupation could be a major risk factor in vitamin D deficiency

Published on: 22 June 2017
The bumpy transition from student to junior doctor – an unseen struggle

Published on: 22 June 2017
Battling antimicrobial resistance at ASM Microbe 2017

Published on: 22 June 2017