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Received: 21 August 2017

Accepted: 20 April 2018

First Online: 31 May 2018

Authors’ information

: CM graduated from the University of St Andrews with a BSc [1st class] in Medicine, and completed her MBBS degree at Barts and the London School of Medicine. She is currently a Foundation Doctor at Imperial College Trust.MT is a General Practitioner at Aksum University. She completed her medical degree in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and also has a Masters in Public Health. TCB is a public health registrar currently undertaking a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an honorary clinical lecture at Barts and the London School of Medicine and project lead for the Aksum University partnership. He graduated from the University of Nottingham with a MBBS and Masters in Medical Education. He has also completed a Masters in Public Health and is a member of the GMC Education Associate and Curriculum Advisory Group. RB is a fourth-year medical student at Barts and the London School of Medicine, with an MRes in Neuroscience from Newcastle University. KS completed his MBBS at Barts and the London School of Medicine alongside completing a BSc (Hons) in Medical Education. He is currently an academic Foundation Doctor in Dundee.

: The research was approved by Queen Mary University of London and the Ethics Committee at Aksum University. We obtained verbal consent prior to interviewing the students and all data was anonymised to maintain confidentiality. We retained a written register of the students who verbally consented.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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