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  1. Content type: Research article

    Abortion has been decriminalized in Canada since 1988 and is considered an essential medical service. There is concern that decreasing numbers of abortion providers may impair access to abortion. This study ex...

    Authors: Daniel T. Myran, Jillian Bardsley, Tania El Hindi and Kristine Whitehead

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:121

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  2. Content type: Debate

    This position paper discusses on-going academic remediation challenges within the field of medical education. More specifically, we identify three common contemporary problems and propose four recommendations ...

    Authors: Layne D. Bennion, Steven J. Durning, Jeffrey LaRochelle, Michelle Yoon, Deanna Schreiber-Gregory, Brian V. Reamy and Dario Torre

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:120

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    In 2012, 12 medical schools were opened in Ethiopia to tackle the significant shortage of doctors. This included Aksum School of Medicine situated in Aksum, a rural town in Northern Ethiopia. The new Innovativ...

    Authors: C. Morgan, M. Teshome, T. Crocker-Buque, R. Bhudia and K. Singh

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:119

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  5. Content type: Research article

    Under-representation of some socio-economic groups in medicine is rooted in under-representation of those groups in applications to medical school. This study aimed to explore what may deter school-age childre...

    Authors: Alexander J. Martin, Benjamin J. Beska, Greta Wood, Nicola Wyatt, Anthony Codd, Gillian Vance and Bryan Burford

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:117

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  6. Content type: Research article

    A higher sense of mastery of doctors’ clinical work could benefit not only their own mental health but also their work performance and patient care. However, we know little about factors associated with percei...

    Authors: Anna Belfrage, Kjersti Støen Grotmol, Reidar Tyssen, Torbjørn Moum and Lars Lien

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:116

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  7. Content type: Research article

    MD-PhDs have been hailed as significant to the advancement of medicine and health care. Yet when it comes to which positions MD-PhDs should be holding in the clinic and the academic world, there seems to be no...

    Authors: Pernille Andreassen and Mette Krogh Christensen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:115

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  8. Content type: Research article

    Public health improvement has long been an important focus for the United Kingdom Department of Health. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Federation has 84,000 members, such a large number of AHP professiona...

    Authors: Sionnadh McLean, Laura Charlesworth, Stephen May and Nick Pollard

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:114

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Over the past 10 years, three new MD schools have been created in the state of Michigan, while the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSU-CHM) has increased their class size to 850 students. ...

    Authors: Richard Switzer, Luke VandeZande, Alan T. Davis and Tracy J. Koehler

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:113

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  11. Content type: Research article

    In September 2013, two cases of cholera were reported in Mexico; 1 week later, a new outbreak was reported in the Huasteca region of Hidalgo. Upon the determination that the diagnostic and therapeutic interven...

    Authors: Laura Magaña-Valladares, Cynthia Rosas-Magallanes, Alejandra Montoya-Rodríguez, Guillermo Calvillo-Jacobo, Celia Mercedes Alpuche-Arande and Sebastían García-Saisó

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:111

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Multiple mini-interviews (MMI) become increasingly popular for the selection of medical students. In this work, we examine the validity evidence for the Hamburg MMI.

    Authors: Mirjana Knorr, Anja Schwibbe, Maren Ehrhardt, Janina Lackamp, Stefan Zimmermann and Wolfgang Hampe

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:106

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  13. Content type: Research article

    Dedicated Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) courses are often included in health professional education programs. It is important to understand the effectiveness of this training. This study investigated EBP outco...

    Authors: Maureen P. McEvoy, Lucy K. Lewis and Julie Luker

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:109

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  14. Content type: Research article

    Quality of health care needs to be improved in rural China. The Chinese government, based on the 1999 Law on Physicians, started implementing the Rural Doctor Practice Regulation in 2004 to increase the percentag...

    Authors: Xiaohong Li, Jay J. Shen, Fang Yao, Chunxin Jiang, Fengshui Chang, Fengfeng Hao and Jun Lu

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:107

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  15. Content type: Research article

    To assess mentorship experiences among the faculty of a large academic department of medicine and to examine how those experiences relate to academic advancement and job satisfaction.

    Authors: Rochelle P. Walensky, Younji Kim, Yuchiao Chang, Bianca C. Porneala, Mirar N. Bristol, Katrina Armstrong and Eric G. Campbell

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:108

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    The objective of pain medicine education is to provide medical students with opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and professional attitudes that will lead to their becoming safe, capable, and comp...

    Authors: Elspeth Erica Shipton, Frank Bate, Raymond Garrick, Carole Steketee and Eric John Visser

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:110

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  17. Content type: Research article

    For the purpose of continuous performance improvement, physicians are expected to reflect on their practice. While many reflection studies are theoretically oriented and often prescriptive in the sense that th...

    Authors: Elisa Bindels, Christel Verberg, Albert Scherpbier, Sylvia Heeneman and Kiki Lombarts

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:105

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  18. Content type: Research article

    There has been much interest in the transitions along the medical education continuum. However, little is known about how students from non-traditional backgrounds experience both the move to, and through Medi...

    Authors: Andrew Mark Bassett, Caragh Brosnan, Erica Southgate and Heidi Lempp

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:102

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  19. Content type: Research article

    Journal clubs (JC) may increase clinicians’ evidence-based practice (EBP) skills and facilitate evidence uptake in clinical practice, however there is a lack of research into their effectiveness in allied heal...

    Authors: Rachel J. Wenke, Rae Thomas, Ian Hughes and Sharon Mickan

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:104

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Given the expected increase in those entering retirement, the number of practising physicians is predicted to decrease. Conversely, the number of physicians needed is set to increase, due to higher demands res...

    Authors: Diana Grasreiner, Uta Dahmen and Utz Settmacher

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:103

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  21. Content type: Research article

    The mini clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX)—a tool used to assess student-patient encounters—is increasingly being applied as a learning device to foster clinical competencies. Although the importance of ...

    Authors: Christoph Berendonk, Anja Rogausch, Armin Gemperli and Wolfgang Himmel

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:100

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  22. Content type: Research article

    Low-stakes tests are becoming increasingly important in international assessments of educational progress, and the validity of these results is essential especially as these results are often used for benchmar...

    Authors: Katrin Schüttpelz-Brauns, Martina Kadmon, Claudia Kiessling, Yassin Karay, Margarita Gestmann and Juliane E. Kämmer

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:101

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  23. Content type: Research article

    The aim of this study was to investigate the acceptance and assessment of work shadowing carried out by students and dentists in dental practices. Furthermore, the extent to which students perceive an improvem...

    Authors: Stefan J. Heitkamp, Stefan Rüttermann and Susanne Gerhardt-Szép

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:99

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  24. Content type: Research article

    Transition into higher education has been identified as one of the most stressful periods for learners. Interventions targeting the transition phase such as near- peer mentoring might help address some of thes...

    Authors: Olawunmi Akinla, Pamela Hagan and William Atiomo

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:98

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  25. Content type: Research article

    Globally, undergraduate pharmacy education comprises practice programs aimed to address different competencies. This study was intended to investigate pharmacy students’ provision of health promotion (HP) coun...

    Authors: Dessalegn Asmelashe Gelayee and Gashaw Binega Mekonnen

    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2018 18:95

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