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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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Emotional intelligence and academic performance of medical undergraduates: a cross-sectional study in a selected university in Sri Lanka

Chandrani Nirmala Wijekoon, Heshan Amaratunge, Yashica de Silva, Solith Senanayake, Pradeepa Jayawardane and Upul Senarath

Published on: 25 September 2017
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Examining patterns in medication documentation of trade and generic names in an academic family practice training centre

Alexander Summers, Carly Ruderman, Fok-Han Leung and Morgan Slater

Published on: 22 September 2017
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Do virtual patients prepare medical students for the real world? Development and application of a framework to compare a virtual patient collection with population data

M. Urresti-Gundlach, D. Tolks, C. Kiessling, M. Wagner-Menghin, A. Härtl and I. Hege

Published on: 22 September 2017
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Using peer review to distribute group work marks equitably between medical students

Alex R Cook, Mikael Hartman, Nan Luo, Judy Sng, Ngan Phoon Fong, Wei Yen Lim, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Mee Lian Wong, Natarajan Rajaraman, Jeannette Jen-Mai Lee and Gerald Choon-Huat Koh

Published on: 20 September 2017
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Psychological distress among medical students in conflicts: a cross-sectional study from Syria

Tareq Al Saadi, Sarah Zaher Addeen, Tarek Turk, Fatima Abbas and Mahmoud Alkhatib

Published on: 20 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.

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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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