Background Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic
lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are …

Blended learning in which online education is combined with face-to-face education is
especially useful for (future) health care professionals who need to keep up-to-date. Blended …

Neuropeptide Y receptors belong to the G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily and mediate
a wide variety of physiological functions, including blood pressure regulation, hormone …

Background Social media may blur the line between socialisation and professional use.
Traditional views on medical professionalism focus on limiting motives and behaviours to avoid …

Research reporting that mothers are dissatisfied with support for breastfeeding in the community
indicates the need for a consistent approach to breastfeeding support groups. The study …

This paper describes the design, delivery and evaluation of a nine week special study module
on literature and medicine for third year undergraduate medical students, by tutors from …

Gabbay and Le May completed their ethnographic study of how GPs use ‘mindlines’ both
individually and collectively to guide their clinical decision-making in 2009.[1] Since then there …

Rationale, aims and objectives It is suspected that childhood urinary tract infection (UTI)
remains under‐diagnosed in primary care, and is consequently the cause of subsequent …

One of the authors was reading a book on Buddhism the other day (as you do!) which made
the following assertion:‘… doctors who really care for their patients have patients who …

The internet now has an enormous range of resources for medical education, from YouTube
videos, to blogs, virtual patients, educational websites and discussion forums. They are all …