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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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Featured blog: Paving the desire paths of health information needs - Teaching students to edit Wikipedia

Research recently published in BMC Medical Education found that pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia pages. Here, Prof. Tina Brock and Prof. Dorie Apollonio describe the research performed by themselves and their colleagues and its potential dual benefits for students and society.

Content type: Research article
| 18 October 2019

Insights into student assessment outcomes in rural clinical campuses

Authors: Boaz Shulruf, Gary Velan, Lesley Forster, Anthony O’Sullivan, Peter Harris and Silas Taylor
Content type: Research article
| 17 October 2019

Physiotherapy students’ DiSC behaviour styles can be used to predict the likelihood of success in clinical placements

Authors: Nikki Milne, Chanelle Louwen, Dianne Reidlinger, Jo Bishop, Megan Dalton and Linda Crane
Content type: Research article
| 17 October 2019

How clinical teaching teams deal with educational change: ‘we just do it’

Authors: L. Bank, M. Jippes, T. R. van Rossum, C. den Rooyen, A. J. J. A. Scherpbier and F. Scheele
Content type: Research article
| 17 October 2019

The ‘connectaholic’ behind the curtain: medical student use of computer devices in the clinical setting and the influence of patients

Authors: Eric Clarke, Jane Burns, Catherine Bruen, Martina Crehan, Erica Smyth and Teresa Pawlikowska
Content type: Research article
| 16 October 2019

Patients’ and parents’ percetion of care on a paediatric interprofessional training ward

Authors: Christine Straub and Sebastian F. N. Bode

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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: Research article
| 16 May 2012

Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience

Authors: Syeda Kauser Ali and Lubna A Baig
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.

Editor

Anne Menard, BioMed Central, UK

Manuscript Editor

Cecilia Pennica, 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.

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