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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

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
| 17 August 2018

Interprofessional education between medical students and nurse practitioner students in a Global Health course

Authors: James S. Leathers, Heather Davidson and Neerav Desai
Content type: Research article
| 15 August 2018

Specialist training aspirations of junior doctors in Sierra Leone: a qualitative follow-up study

Authors: Aniek Woodward, Euphemia Gooding Lake, Natarajan Rajaraman and Andrew Leather
Content type: Research article
| 15 August 2018

The effects of empathy skills training on nursing students’ empathy and attitudes toward elderly people

Authors: Sakineh Gholamzadeh, Maryam Khastavaneh, Zahra Khademian and Soraya Ghadakpour
Content type: Research article
| 14 August 2018

The impact of rural outreach programs on medical students’ future rural intentions and working locations: a systematic review

Authors: George E. Johnson, Fredrick Clive Wright and Kirsty Foster
Content type: Research article
| 14 August 2018

“You understand that whole big situation they’re in”: interpretative phenomenological analysis of peer-assisted learning

Authors: Shameena Tamachi, James A. Giles, Tim Dornan and Elspeth J. R. Hill

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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
| 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
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

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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

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, 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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Interprofessional education between medical students and nurse practitioner students in a Global Health course

Specialist training aspirations of junior doctors in Sierra Leone: a qualitative follow-up study

The effects of empathy skills training on nursing students’ empathy and attitudes toward elderly people

The impact of rural outreach programs on medical students’ future rural intentions and working locations: a systematic review

“You understand that whole big situation they’re in”: interpretative phenomenological analysis of peer-assisted learning

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

Sicily statement on evidence-based practice

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

Aims and scope

Editor

Section Editors

Sigrid Harendza, Section Editor

Data Support Services pilot

BMC Series blog

Not too much and not too little: the right amount of social network site use may reduce loneliness among mothers of young children

Longer hours on social media may increase teens’ risk of cyberbullying

Can social attachment contribute to problematic Facebook use?

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