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Advancing Methods in Healthcare Research and Education

Guest Editors

Abdelrahman Elsayid, MBBCh, MPH, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Randa Elsheikh, MBBCh, MSc, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences at Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom


BMC Research Notes called for submissions to a Collection on advancing healthcare research and education methods. This Collection showcased pioneering research in healthcare education, including pedagogical innovations, technology integration, assessment strategies, and more. Researchers were invited to contribute their expertise to shape the future of healthcare education and enhance the quality of patient-centered care.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Abdelrahman Elsayid, MBBCh, MPH, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Dr Elsayid (Publication Name: Abdelrahman M Makram) is an anesthesiology and intensive care medicine resident at October 6 University Hospital, a Master of Public Health candidate at Imperial College London, and a research fellow at the Orthopaedic Department of October 6 University. He has had a great interest in medical research since his second year of medical school. He has published more than three dozen papers in multiple fields, including orthopedics, medical education, women’s health, pediatrics, infectious diseases, and public health. He has also published a book chapter about the use of artificial intelligence in advancing medical biology. He serves as a peer-reviewer at more than twenty journals and an academic editor at four prestigious journals. His research mainly focuses on public health and women’s and children’s health.


Randa Elsheikh, MBBCh, MSc, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences at Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dr Randa Elsheikh is a plastic and reconstructive surgery resident at October 6 University Hospital, Giza, Egypt, and a Master of Science in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases candidate at the University of Edinburgh. She started her clinical research career early in medical school and has since published multiple publications in international journals. She has also actively taken part in several international collaborations in the field of surgery, serving as hospital lead in some of them. She acted as a peer-reviewer for multiple medical journals and is currently a research instructor for the Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan, a non-profit international organization helping to introduce medical students to clinical research. She has a special interest in medical education, patient safety, global surgery, clinical microbiology, and infectious diseases.

About the Collection

BMC Research Notes called for submissions to a Collection on advancing healthcare research and education methods. 

Effective healthcare education is crucial to producing skilled healthcare professionals capable of navigating the complexities of modern medicine. From curriculum development and active learning approaches to research methodologies and assessment strategies, ongoing innovation in medical training and education ensures that healthcare providers can deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. This Collection showcased innovative new research in this field from across a wide diversity of healthcare settings. Topics of interest included: 

  • Pedagogical innovations and curriculum development
  • Interprofessional education and experiential learning
  • E-learning and technology integration
  • Assessment strategies and measurement tools
  • Research methodologies in healthcare education
  • Instrument development for clinical skills training
  • Comparative effectiveness and health services research
  • Integration of health outcomes and measurement

We also welcomed research that seeks to validate novel or established methodologies in a real-world setting.

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  1. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this study: (a) scoped the literature for desirable characteristics of online learning environments; (b) analyzed and compared the available online systematic review and met...

    Authors: Walid El Ansari, Kareem El-Ansari and Mohamed Hany
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2025 18:103
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  2. The recent global pandemic posed extraordinary challenges for healthcare systems. Frontline healthcare workers required focused, immediate, practical, evidence-based instruction on optimal patient care modalit...

    Authors: Jacqueline Christianson, Erica Frank, Stacen Keating, Susan Boyer and Miriam Chickering
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2025 18:13
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  3. Recently, neuroathletic training has been increasingly applied in competitive sports, in therapy, and in prevention. Scientific evidence on the effectiveness of this approach, however, has been poorly develope...

    Authors: Evers Judith, Stolz Isabel and Klein Marilena
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2024 17:358
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  4. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare education is inevitable. Understanding the proficiency of generative AI in different languages to answer complex questions is crucial for education...

    Authors: Malik Sallam, Kholoud Al-Mahzoum, Rawan Ahmad Almutawaa, Jasmen Ahmad Alhashash, Retaj Abdullah Dashti, Danah Raed AlSafy, Reem Abdullah Almutairi and Muna Barakat
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2024 17:247
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  6. Effective management of hypertension requires not only medical intervention but also significant patient self-management. The challenge, however, lies in the diversity of patients' personal barriers to managin...

    Authors: Jiami Yang, Yong Zeng, Lin Yang, Nadia Khan, Shaminder Singh, Robin L. Walker, Rachel Eastwood and Hude Quan
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2024 17:224
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  7. Differentiated thyroid cancer is the most common endocrinological malignancy. Radioiodine treatment has a clear benefit in locally aggressive and metastatic cancers. There are discussions about long-term and a...

    Authors: Barbora Havlínová, Ilona Součková, Kateřina Kopřivová and Jiří Doležal
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2024 17:147
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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select Advancing methods in healthcare research and education from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.