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Open AccessBetwixt and between student and professional identities: UK medical students during COVID times
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020 brought about unprecedented disruption to medical education in the United Kingdom (UK). Medical students were encouraged to take up paid roles in the National Heal...
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Linking research to end users through community engagement: an umbrella review
Investigation of effective modes of community engagement remains an important topic in research yet is often overlooked. Studies focusing on how to move beyond a tokenistic involvement of community members int...
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Open AccessExploring the cultural effects of gender on perceptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic literature review
More than one million people each year become infected by parasites that cause the disease cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). This disease manifests as one or more skin lesions or ulcers that are slow to heal with ...
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Open AccessConceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study
Certainty/uncertainty in medicine is a topic of popular debate. This study aims to understand how biomedical uncertainty is conceptualised by academic medical educators and how it is taught in a medical school...
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Open AccessPrevalence of osteoarthritis in lower middle- and low-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Evidence from the Global Burden of Disease studies suggests that osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant cause of disability globally; however, it is less clear how much of this burden exists in low-income and lo...
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How Medical Students in the United Kingdom Think: About Anthropology, for Example
This chapter is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two UK (United Kingdom) medical schools exploring perceptions and understandings around social sciences, in particular anthropology, as applied to m...
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Open AccessProtocol for a multi-centre pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial with a nested qualitative study: rehabilitation following rotator cuff repair (the RaCeR study)
Shoulder pain is a highly prevalent complaint and disorders of the rotator cuff, including tears, are thought to be the most common cause. The number of operations to repair the torn rotator cuff has risen sig...
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Open AccessSystematic literature review on the delays in the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cluster headache
Patients with cluster headache (CH), the most common trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia, often face delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and mismanagement.
