Marleen Smits, Paul Giesen

Annals of Internal Medicine

Annals of Internal Medicine is ranked 5th among 151 general medicine journals. It is one of the most highly cited and influential journals in the world.

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Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld

House of Memories

This book begins and ends with a house in the Dutch town of Tilburg. After the author bought the house, he discovered that a Jewish couple, Hans and Bertha Polak-Cohen, had it built for their family in 1928. As this family’s history was gradually being uncovered, there was one tragic story that stood out: the story of Bertram Polak, the couple’s son. Bertram’s family lived in this house until all but one managed to flee when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in May 1940: Bertram was the only one to stay behind. In December 1941, he tried to escape to England with three friends, was betrayed, and eventually killed in Auschwitz on 17 August 1942. This book relates this history and shows what happens in the process of uncovering a traumatic past, affecting both the family’s next generations and the historian involved.

Wendy van Herk, Annemarie van Rossum

The Lancet

The Lancet is the world’s leading independent general medical journal, publishing articles on the cutting edge of science published by leading international researchers.

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Rik Engbers

Medical Teaching

The aim of this thesis was to gain a better understanding of how medical teaching policy works in the complex context of a University Medical Center. We wanted to explore this from an organizational perspective: how can medical teaching policy be implemented successfully in a complex and demanding context? We studied how medical teaching policy is related to teacher motivation as an indicator of teacher quality. We used the Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a qualitative motivational theory that takes the influence of context on motivation into account. The SDT states that motivation for medical teaching improves if three basic needs for feeling autonomy, competence, and relatedness in medical teaching are met.