Article History
Received: 17 June 2017
Accepted: 12 June 2018
First Online: 19 June 2018
Authors’ information
: Antonius Ratte, Simon Drees and Tabea Schmidt-Ott are medical students from Heidelberg, Berlin and Oldenburg respectively. Together they chaired the German Medical Students’ Association’s standing committee on medical education from 2014 to 2015. Holding this position they performed the present study.
: Since the survey was performed anonymously and did not involve an intervention, the Ethics Committee of the University of Heidelberg indicated that no formal ethics approval was required. Consent to participate was assumed by the completion of the survey.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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