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Section edited by Trevor Lambert and Christopher Roberts
This section considers manuscripts with a focus on the career paths chosen by medical students as well as manuscripts that focus on continuing medical education and professional development.
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Medical education can be a time of great psychological distress for students. The ongoing Syrian conflict represents an additional factor potentially contributing to poor mental health among medical students. ...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:173
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research article
With current emphasis on leadership in medicine, this study explores Goleman’s leadership styles of medical education leaders at different hierarchical levels and gain insight into factors that contribute to t...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:169
Published on: 19 September 2017
Research article
It is known that medical students suffer from high rates of mental health difficulties. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the need to improve support and treatment services for those in dif...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:159
Published on: 12 September 2017
Correspondence
To describe the design and to present the results of a paediatric and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program adapted to Latin-America.
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:161
Published on: 12 September 2017
Research article
This study evaluated the influence of continuing education of family health strategy teams by the Ronald McDonald Institute program on the early diagnosis of cancer in children and adolescents.
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:155
Published on: 7 September 2017
Research article
The proportion of medical doctors involved in research activities is declining. Undergraduate medical research programs are positively associated with medical students’ research interest. Scientific pre-univer...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:150
Published on: 5 September 2017
Research article
It is known that many trainee doctors around the world experience work satisfaction but also considerable work stress in the training period. Such stress seems to be linked to multiple factors including worklo...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:142
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research article
Effective interprofessional collaboration (IPC) has been shown to depend on clear role definitions, yet there are important gaps with regard to role clarity in the IPC literature. The goal of this study was to...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:138
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research article
Many jokes exist about stereotypical attributes of physicians in various specialties, which could lead to prejudices against physicians from a specific specialty. It is unknown whether and when medical student...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:128
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research article
Quality assurance programs in medical education are introduced to gain insight into the quality of such programs and to trigger improvements. Although of utmost importance, research on the implementation of su...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:127
Published on: 21 July 2017
Correspondence
The ongoing professionalization of medical education means that quality systems (QSs) aimed at improving medical education also continuously have to improve. The aim of this paper is to describe the development o...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:126
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
Professional competence is important in delivering high quality patient care, and it can be enhanced by reflection and reflective discourse e.g. in mentoring groups. However, students are often reluctant thoug...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:122
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Allied health professionals working in rural areas face unique challenges, often with limited access to resources. Accessing continuing professional development is one of those challenges and is related to ret...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:117
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
Prior studies have described the career paths of physician-scientist candidates after graduation, but the factors that influence career choices at the candidate stage remain unclear. Additionally, previous wor...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:115
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
The University College Dublin Elective Programme was introduced in 2005 with the intention of broadening the learning of its undergraduate students. Undergraduate medical students undertake seven free-choice e...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:113
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
The emotional consequences of patient deaths on physicians have been studied in a variety of medical settings. Reactions to patient death include distress, guilt, and grief. Comparatively, there are few studie...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:110
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
Offshore medical schools are for-profit, private enterprises located in the Caribbean that provide undergraduate medical education to students who must leave the region for postgraduate training and also typic...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:99
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research article
Medical education is a cornerstone in the global combat against diseases such as diabetes and obesity which together affect more than 500 million humans. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are educational too...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:97
Published on: 31 May 2017
Research article
In Ethiopia, the health care delivery and the system of medical education have been expanding rapidly. However, in spite of the expansion, no studies have been carried out among medical students to identify th...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:96
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research article
While spontaneous reporting (SR) is one of the important public health activities for community pharmacists to guard patients’ safety, very few studies examined educational activities and its effects on knowle...
BMC Medical Education 2017 17:95
Published on: 30 May 2017
